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.
Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Dylan: “I want to headline Wembley – playing there with Ed Sheeran gave me the hunger”
nme.comDylan has spoken to NME about what to expect from her debut album, upcoming single ‘Perfect Revenge’, memories from supporting Ed Sheeran on his stadium tour and her love of Taylor Swift.Speaking backstage at BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend in Luton, the rising UK singer-songwriter (real name 24-year-old atasha Katherine Woods) revealed that her long-awaited debut album was coming “very soon” and that it is “the perfect representation of my personality”“It’s very in your face… it’s a lot,” added the Suffolk artist, describing the as-yet-untitled record as “pop music, but you can tell that I was brought up with rock‘n’roll”.Elaborating on those influences, she said “I go in with the minds of AC/DC and then mix that with early Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.”Woods added: “I was really trying to keep it very much how I feel and what just comes out as word vomit.”She also spoke about her upcoming single ‘Perfect Revenge’, revealing that “it’s for all my unhinged girlies out there.“Life is just too short to not be petty and I feel like it’s acceptable to be a psychopath some of the time,” she joked. “I needed to get some tension out, and that’s how the song evolved.”Talking about the sonic inspirations behind it, she said “it’s my version of a disco song, so I want people to feel elevated by it”.Dylan, who broke into the top 20 of the UK album chart with her debut mixtape ‘The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn’ and has already headlined venues including London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, also spoke about her recent stadium tour with Ed Sheeran.“Those shows were incredible,” she said. “Playing stadiums is my favourite thing in the whole world.
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