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.
'Even Stevens' star Christy Carlson Romano claims Katy Perry caused her to lose a record deal
foxnews.comChristy Carlson Romano is continuing to speak out about her time in the Disney limelight as a young performer in Hollywood. In a new YouTube video upload titled, "How Katy Perry Got My Record Deal," the "Even Stevens" actress, 37, opened up about a moment in her singing career when she parlayed a Broadway run into a record deal with Atlantic Records.
Romano had starred as Belle in the Broadway adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast" in 2004. However, according to Romano, Katy Perry allegedly ended up snatching the deal from right under Romano’s nose when one music executive, Jason Flom, left Atlantic for a job at Virgin Records.
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