text: It's good to be Taylor Swift — and for 21-year-old Elizabeth Scarborough, it's good to look like Taylor Swift, too, particularly as the University of South Carolina student has been built a career on impersonating the superstar singer. Of course, it's not just her strikingly similar resemblance to 25-year-old Taylor that's helped Elizabeth book private appearances and live concerts where she performs the Shake it Off singer's greatest hits; the Charleston, South Carolina, native can also sing, dance, and act just like her lookalike. 'I first became a fan of her music, and it wasn't until, like, five or six years later when I realized, hey, I could really market this,' she says. Scroll down for video . Similar superfan: Elizabeth Scarborough, 21, impersonates Taylor Swift when she's not attending school in South Carolina . Before embarking on a career impersonating Taylor six years ago, Elizabeth was just a big fan of the star — until classmates at her all-girls school began telling her she looked like the Grammy winner. After Taylor's second album, Fearless, came out when Elizabeth was 15, the student asked her older brother to teach her how to play Love Story — a relatively simple song with only four chords. With looks and musical ability now in her arsenal, Elizabeth was able to start making money as a tribute artist. 'I started to hear the rumor, "Taylor Swift goes to our school", and moms would hire me out for birthday parties,' she told Good Morning Carolinas, and explained that early gigs would earn her about $30. 'I’d come, sing a few songs, and wear a sparkly dress and they loved it,' she told USA Today. Flattering immitation: Elizabeth started to learn to play Taylor's music when she was 15 after classmates told her she looked like the star . Copycat performer: Not only has Elizabeth, left, learned to sing and play music by Taylor, right, on the guitar, but she has also practiced copying the singer's facial expressions and way of speaking . Eventually Elizabeth learned Taylor's entire musical catalog, started designing corresponding costumes, and even studied the singer's mannerisms to improve her impersonations. She still works at parties and even nursing homes, but now her biggest gig is performing with Legends in Concert, a concert series that includes artists impersonating the likes of Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, and Tim McGraw. Last summer, Elizabeth performed with Legends in Concert for two month in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and when she graduates from college in May she'll go on tour with the show, starting in Branson, Missouri and ending in Las Vegas, Nevada. '[I'm] so excited to start designing outfits and song lists for future shows [sic],' she recently said on her Instagram account. Parallel careers: As Taylor releases new music and debuts new costumes on tour, Elizabeth adds new elements to her own impersonations . And while she looks forward to Taylor's new material first and foremost as a fan, the Blank Space singer's growing and evolving career also means Elizabeth gets to have more fun with her own career. 'I think she’s breaking boundaries and creating new genres,' she said. 'That gives me the opportunity as a tribute artist to do a lot of different things.' This isn't the first time that one of Taylor's lookalikes has come forward. Last month, the singer herself discovered another doppelganger online, posting a picture of her 'twin', Arizona resident Morgan Jensen, on Tumblr, while commenting: 'Lol I thought that was me.'
target: University of South Carolina student Elizabeth Scarborough performs as a Taylor Swift tribute artist .
  The 21-year-old has been impersonating the star since she was 15 .
  Her first gigs were at children's birthday parties, for which she earned $30 .