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.
Transformers creator and poker champion Henry Orenstein dead at 98
nypost.comYnet reported. He came to the US in 1947 and became a wildly successful toymaker, most notably for creating the Transformers toy line.
The figurines have since inspired numerous adaptations, from a comic book series to an animated TV show and the blockbuster film franchise.Orenstein is also credited with creating the popular 1950s doll “Betty the Beautiful Bride.”“In less than a year, more than a million and a half of these dolls were sold,” he said in a 1989 interview that labeled him “the father of the Transformers,” Ynet reported.
His other inventions include poker table hole-card cameras, which allow TV audiences to see players’ secret strategies and bluffs.
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