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.
I like you, Russell Brand, but don’t be a pussy
nme.comRussell Brand.I read the booky-wooks. I still have Revolution on my shelves – it was written in one of his spiritual phases and was too hippie for me – but we live in hope that one day I might read it in a time of need.
I went to see a work-in-progress show of his a few years ago and he spent the whole hour ripping the piss out of himself for the stages he goes through sometimes (interviewing Ed Miliband in his kitchen, mouthing off at Jeremy Paxman and telling us not to vote, and, well, marrying Katy Perry).
He knows he can be a pain in the arse, but he can also be very funny, and extremely self-aware.It pains me, then, that last week, he popped up on my screen again for what felt like the first time in months, if not years, seemingly.
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