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 Relationship Timeline: The Way They Were
usmagazine.comLife imitating art. Katy Perry first met ex-husband Russell Brand while filming a romantic scene for his 2010 film, Get Him to the Greek.“When he was filming Get Him to the Greek, I did a cameo with him.
My scene called for me to make out with him,” the “Firework” singer told Glamour in 2010 about working with the British comedian two years earlier. “And on the way down the stairs after the scene, I was hopping like a bunny.
I hop like a bunny when I’m happy — I get a bit childlike. He gives me the Christmas Eve jitters.”While the scene was ultimately cut from the movie — with Perry explaining to MTV in June 2010 that “it seemed too … literal” if they included the kiss — their interaction gave her the courage to make the first move when Brand was onstage at the VMAs the following year. “I was 25, 30 feet away from him.
And I threw the bottle straight at him. Hit him smack dab on the head,” Perry told Esquire in July 2010. “Can you imagine the horrible feeling he had, when he was used to getting everything he wanted?
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