Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.
Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin.
After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007.
12-Year-Old Keedron Bryant Pays Tribute to George Floyd With Moving 'I Just Want to Live'
billboard.comEveryone from Kirk Franklin to LeBron James and Katy Perry have praised the a cappella original. Keedron Bryant has given voice to what many people are feeling these days in the wake of the police-related death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The 12-year-old singer has drawn praise, and millions of views, for his moving a cappella performance of the original song "I Just Want to Live," uploaded on Wednesday in the form of a simple video in which he passionately sings what it feels like to look like him in America right now. "I'm a young black man/ Doing all that I can/ To stand, oh but when I look around/ And I see what's being done to my kind/ Every day, I'm being hunted as prey," he sings, looking directly into the camera while
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