Taylor Zachary Goldsmith (b. August 17, 1985) is a singer and guitarist. He is best-known for being the lead singer and chief songwriter for the band Dawes.

Taylor Goldsmith was born in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in Malibu, California with his brother Griffin, who is a drummer, and graduated from Malibu High School.

In 2002, while he was in high school, Goldsmith formed a post-punk band called Simon Dawes. He formed it with his high school classmate Blake Mills; Mills was the guitarist. The name of the band is based off Blake Mills' middle name (Simon) and Dawes' last name.

The two stayed together during the years of the band's existence, with a number of bassists (Damon Webb, Grant Powell, and Wylie Gelber) and drummers (Alex Orbison, Dylan Grombocher, and Griffin Goldsmith) joining and leaving the band.

Simon Dawes' debut albumCarnivorereceived mixed reviews.

In 2007, Simon Dawes broke up when Mills left the band.

After Goldsmith and Blake Mills parted ways, Taylor Goldsmith started a new folk rock band called Dawes. He named the band after his grandfather, Dawes Lafayette Goldsmith. Wylie Gelber (a former bassist of Simon Dawes) and Griffin Goldsmith (Taylor's younger brother and a former drummer of Simon Dawes) joined as the band's inaugural members; they also added Tay Strathairn as the band's keyboardist.

The group debuted in 2009 and have since released six albums.

One of their music videos, "Roll with the Punches” stars Mandy Moore.

In 2013, Dawes opened for Bob Dylan on his U.S. College Tour. Goldsmith personally said of the tour that winning Dylan fans over proved extremely challenging.

In 2010, Taylor Goldsmith joined Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit and John McCauley of Deer Tick to form the band Middle Brother. In 2011, they released their first and only eponymous album, Middle Brother , which received positive reviews by critics.

In 2014, Goldsmith was asked by T Bone Burnett to join The New Basement Tapes, a project consisting of newly written and recorded songs based on recently uncovered Bob Dylan lyrics written in 1967. Taylor joined Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Elvis Costello to record songs, which created the Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes . Their work was also recorded in video format on the documentary Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued.

Taylor Goldsmith received co-writing credit for the songs "Kansas City," "Liberty Street," "When I Get My Hands on You," "Florida Key," "Card Shark," and "Diamond Ring."

He played the bass, guitar, mellotron, organ, and piano; he added vocals to the record, as well.

Taylor Goldsmith is married to Mandy Moore. The two have been together since 2015, after Moore separated from her first husband, Ryan Adams. He and Moore got engaged in 2017. The couple got married on November 18, 2018.