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 discusses the negative response to her album Witness: "My expectations are very managed right now"
officialcharts.comKaty Perry has opened up about the mixed response to her album Witness, saying her expectations for her new album Smile are "very managed".
The star's second and third records, Teenage Dream and Prism, were both global chart-toppers and widely praised by critics, while her last album Witness, released in 2017, didn't fair quite so well.
In an intervew with Zane Lowe on Apple Music about her upcoming record, Katy explained that it's tricky balancing creating music and "playing the business side of it".
She explained: "The desire has always been to be a messenger, even from [debut album] One Of The Boys, and the sonic experimentation and landscape follows that.
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