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.
Katy Perry and Russell Brand's explosive marriage - 'jealousy, control and fight that ended it'
mirror.co.ukWhen Russell Brand drove Katy Perry home from their first date in September 2009, he told the raven-haired beauty: "You're a mermaid and I'm drowning," before gifting her with a sensational black diamond necklace.
And it set the stage for an intensity that would continue throughout their romance, with a smitten Russell proposing just three months later in a tent at the foot of a mountain in India on New Year's Eve.
They tied the knot in a lavish Indian ceremony that October and got matching ‘Anuugacchati Pravaha’ tattoos, translated as 'go with the flow'.
But just months in, rumours of trouble in paradise began to swirl. Recovered drug addict Russell, then 36, and his 25-year-old wife were said to be clashing over everything from her
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