Taylor Swift won the Artist of the Decade award at the American Music Awards, she also performed on the event.
Her mother, Andrea, gets emotional while watching her daughter, as she starts crying.
The 29-year-old artist performed on a medley of hits, including Love Story, Shake It Off and Lover. After seeing her daughter on stage, her mother, Andrea Swift, 61, was seen dabbing at her eyes with a tissue.
Andrea, who’s battled cancer since 2015, was accompanied by her husband Scott, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Taylor mentioned her mother in her acceptance speech for the Artist of the Decade award. She also said that her parents have a keen interest in music. Carole King presented the honors – who helped shape her as a songwriter and musical artist.
‘I can’t believe that it’s Carole King, that it’s you who gave me this award,’ she said. ‘So, you know, my parents are here tonight. And, you know, they would listen to Tapestry and all your records in high school, then they took them with them and packed them up to college with them.’
She continued, ‘When they met and got their own house, they took those records with them, and played those records for me and my brother.
When I fell in love with music, it was right around the time I realized how marvelous it was that an artist could transcend so many different changes and phases in people’s lives; so, you taught me that that was a possibility.’
Swift ended up saying, ‘All any of the artists, or really anyone in this room, wants is to create something that will last – whatever it is in life.
‘And the fact that this is an award that celebrates a decade of hard work and of art and of fun and memories, all that matters to me is the memories that I have had with you guys, with you, the fans, over the years.’
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