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.
Justin Bieber, Dan & Shay Hit With Lawsuit Over Grammy-Winning Hit ‘10,000 Hours’
variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorJustin Bieber and Dan + Shay have been hit with a copyright lawsuit that claims they borrowed the “core portion” of their Grammy-winning hit “10,000 Hours” from a comparatively obscure 1980 song called “The First Time Baby Is A Holiday.” The complaint was filed Thursday in Los Angeles federal court by a company called Melomega.“Defendants’ theft is impudently bold,” reads the complaint reads, which also names Dan + Shay’s label, Warner Music Group, as a defendant. “One need only listen to ‘First Time’ and the infringing ‘10,000 Hours’ to discern the unmistakable similarities between the songs.” The claim is supported by musicologist Dr.
Alexander Stewart, who arrived at the “ineluctable conclusion that defendants stole plaintiff’s song.” “’10,000 Hours’ is not just substantially similar to ‘First Time’; defendants copied, in minute detail, the most important, core portion of plaintiff’s song, which includes the chorus, verse and hook,” the complaint reads in part. “The similarities are so striking that ‘10,000 Hours’ simply cannot have been independently created.”Although “The First Time Baby Is A Holiday” was copyrighted in 1980, the complaint states that the song was released in 2014 by the Orchard, which is owned by Sony Music.“Without the plaintiff’s song, ‘10,000 Hours’ would not exist,” a publicist for the plaintiffs wrote in an email servicing the complaint; reps for Bieber and Dan + Shay did not immediately respond to Variety’s requests for commentThe complaint also attempts to differentiate the complaint from high-profile but ultimately unsuccessful infringement allegations involving Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” and Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” claiming that other lawsuits have.
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