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.
Cyn Starts Off Her Morning With 'Drinks' For Billboard Live At-Home Performance
billboard.comCyn celebrated a career milestone with "Drinks" during her Billboard Live At-Home performance Thursday morning (July 9) that raised money for The Loveland Foundation, which provides therapy for communities of color, specifically Black women and girls.
But not those kind of drinks.Her song, which was the lead single on the Promising Young Woman movie soundtrack, has made its rounds on radio airplay and even peaked at No.
31 on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 Recurrents chart last week (dated July 4). "This song is on radio stations, which is the first time I've had this kind of moment in my little career," the 27-year-old protégé of Katy Perry said while introducing the acoustic arrangement of the song.Cyn and her guitarist and frequent.
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