TAYLOR Swift continues to give back to those in need during the coronavirus pandemic and covered the insurance cost for ALL employees at Grimey’s Records in Nashville.
The 30-year-old pop star paid for three month’s of health care for the entire staff, business partners AND their families of her hometown record store as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread.
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Grimey’s co-owner Doyle Davis revealed to The Sun that despite the Shake It Off singer being a previous customer of the music shop, the kind gesture was “totally unexpected.”
“I didn’t know I was on Taylor’s radar at all. They called me on the last day the staff was in the store before the stay-in-place order,” Doyle said.
Taylor – who moved to Nashville when she was 14-years-old and considers it her home – asked the store what they needed most.
The music lover said: “They wanted to offer direct relief and help with essential expenses.
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“The publicist asked me what I needed. I sent them a list of my most immediate needs. I included the insurance, my building rent, stuff like that.
“And [Taylor and her team] chose to take on the things that directly affect my people.
“They wrote a check to cover three month’s worth of my health insurance for my workers, for me, my wife, all of my business partners and their kids and spouses that are all on this plan.”
Doyle – who’s regular customers include country stars Kacey Musgraves and Jason Aldean – said that so far, Taylor is the only artist who has offered help amid the global pandemic.
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“It gave me incredible peace of mind to know my healthcare and all my people got something right now to help with expenses. I don’t know what I’d do without this, I’m so grateful,” he said.
He added that the generous amount she gave to cover everyone’s healthcare was “very significant.”
Grimey’s has served Nashville customers for over 20 years but closed its doors to the public last month to follow Tennessee’s Safer at Home order.
Noting that local pickups would be a “flagrant violation of the mayor’s order,” the record store is making albums available for purchase on their website during this time.
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Taylor has continued to send dozens of fans struggling with coronavirus hardships money online.
Last month, she gave $3,000 each to help a freelance photographer pay her rent and an unemployed fan who said she wanted to “die” due to piled up bills.
The pop and country hitmaker – who is a regular on Tumblr – saw fan Holly’s emotional post describing the fear she has to pay bills “with no income” moving forward.
The freelance touring music photographer confessed she does not “have enough money to pay rent after April.”
She added that “every last dollar I was supposed to be making has been cancelled for the foreseeable future” because of COVID-19 related postponements.
Despite not being tagged, Taylor saw the message and sent the New Yorker $3,000 just hours later and has done the same for various fans.
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