[article] Utada Hikaru Is a Tetris Champion

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Utada Hikaru is a Japanese pop star that is known in the rest of the world for her contribution brought to the Kingdom Hearts franchise sound track. Now, the singer vanquished 26 from 30 Tetris opponents in a Nintendo-sponsored event that took place in the weekend in Japan.

On Saturday, Nintendo hosted an event called The Tetris Battle at the Tokyo International Forum. The Tetris lovers had to challenge the pop star in a round of Tetris DS.

The j-pop singer is a self-proclaimed Tetris fan since she was 5 years old. In the competition she lost the first two games, but she got back on track winning 26 of her next 28 opponents. More, she defeated one of the Nintendo developers. Utada blamed the unfamiliar Nintendo DS system she used at the event for her lost rounds.

Utada did not do her first game song for Kingdom Hearts. She is the one who sang "Easy Breezy" for the first Nintendo DS advertising campaign in Japan. She also sang the theme songs for Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II, "Simple and Clean" and "Passion" respectively.

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