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.
Claudia Conway is set to audition on the latest season of American Idol, the ABC show revealed in a promotion on Monday. The 16-year-old daughter of Kellyanne Conway, a former senior counselor to former President Trump, and attorney George Conway appears in a new ad for the series that the offical American Idol account tweeted on Monday evening. "I'm very nervous but very excited," she says in the promotion, which shows the teen, who is also a popular personality on TikTok, auditioning for a slot in the competition.
Later, introducing herself to judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, who look surprised, Conway introduces herself by saying, "I'm Claudia Conway.
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