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Reginald "Reggie" Biddings King (born February 14, 1957, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'6" and 225 lb small forward and played college basketball at the University of Alabama. He had a career in the NBA from 1979 to 1985. King's nickname in college was "the Mule."
King was selected 18th overall by the Kansas City Kings in the 1979 NBA Draft. He spent four seasons with the Kings, and his final 2 NBA seasons with the Seattle SuperSonics. His best season was in 1980-81 as a member of the Kings when he averaged a career high 14.9 points, 9.7 rebounds and shot a career-best 54.4% field goal percentage.
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
DeStorm Power (pronounced day·storm) is an American YouTube personality, musician and comedian. He is the 44th most subscribed user as well as the 8th most subscribed musician on YouTube.[citation needed] His channel, DeStorm, has more than 200 videos which, together, have been watched more than 150 million times.
Power was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After interning and ghostwriting at Atlantic Records, Universal, and various other record labels, Power set out to establish himself as a performer, using YouTube as a platform to share his singing, songwriting, and production skills with the online community. Power's videos are typically comedic, and also often incorporate rapping and beatboxing. Prior to his online success, Power was an accomplished triple jumper and Master personal trainer, and was notably invited to the Olympic Trials.
Power's YouTube channel, registered under the username DeStorm, has over 1,200,000 subscribers, and is used primarily for his musical endeavors. It is currently the 8th ranked music channel on YouTube. "What's up World?"—Power's catch phrase—can be heard at the start of every video. Power often composes and performs covers of well known songs or creates content for major brands such as Pepsi, GE, Yahoo and Nintendo. Power also creates original content based upon subscribers' challenges and suggestions, like name dropping various movie titles. Power occasionally collaborates with other popular YouTube personalities and recording artists, such as Mystery Guitar Man, Freddie Wong,Ray William Johnson, Nice Peter and Kina Grannis. Powers also competed in a commercial contest hosted by Heinz Ketchup and was a finalist. Power also appeared on a podcast 'Painkiller Already' on November 19, 2010.