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.
ADRIAN THRILLS: Why we still get a kick out of Katy Perry!
msn.comThe last time we heard from Katy Perry was when she brought her Witness tour to the UK two summers ago. With the Californian singer standing centre stage in a flashing LED bra, surrounded by Day-Glo dancers and giant flamingos, it was a dazzling spectacle — but one that felt disjointed and forced.The tour came after two albums, Prism and Witness, that had seen Perry edge away from bubblegum hits such as 2008’s I Kissed A Girl and 2010’s Firework.
On Prism, she wanted to be taken seriously as a songwriter; on Witness, she said she was making ‘purposeful pop’. Seeing her return to candy-coated froth the minute she went on tour was confusing.There’s no such uncertainty on Smile, her first LP in three years and her most coherent in a decade.
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