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.
'He's a complete gentleman': Katy Perry gushes over Harry Styles
msn.comKaty Perry has praised Harry Styles as a "complete gentleman" after he offered to give up his seat on a plane for her. The 'Never Worn White' hitmaker - who is expecting her first child with her fiancé Orlando Bloom - has revealed she met the One Direction star on a flight earlier this year, and heaped praise on his chivalrous actions, as she explained he immediately offered his seat to her as soon as she told him she is pregnant.
Speaking to Scott Mills on BBC Radio One, she said: "I saw him on a plane, it was so funny. "I actually saw him on a plane before I announced that I was pregnant.
And we were having a conversation and I was like, 'Yeah, and I'm pregnant', just off the cuff, because I was like, what else do you say. "I was.
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