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.
It’s been almost four years since Orlando Bloom went viral with his nude paddle-boarding photos while vacationing in Italy with now-fiancee Katy Perry, and people are still talking about it.
But Katy finally addressed the photos in a recent interview with Howard Stern on his show The Howard Stern Show. The chat show host brought up the photos and asked the pregnant pop star about the reason for the nudity.
To which Katy quipped, “It was Europe! We had had a pretty chill time and everywhere we looked, it was like ‘Everybody was naked!
It was in Europe! It was Italy!’ and I think he wanted to fit in with the locals.” Perry did not feel the need to “fit in with the locals” as she described herself as the more “pragmatic” of the pair, despite.
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