Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Masayuki Uemura (1943–2021), Nintendo NES and Super NES creator
legacy.comMasayuki Uemura was a Japanese video game producer who created the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super NES home gaming systems.Uemura began working for Nintendo in 1971, at a time when the company was just beginning to expand from toys and board games into electronic gaming.
With the success of their 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, Nintendo’s president asked Uemura to make something that would allow arcade game fans to play their favorite games at home on their TVs, with easy-to-use video games stored on cartridges.
He created the NES, originally known as the Famicom when it was released in 1983. Donkey Kong was among the first games available for the NES, which, along with Super Mario Bros., helped make it an international.
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