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 Explains Why Her Pregnancy Hasn’t Affected Judging ‘American Idol’
usmagazine.comKaty Perry was overcome with emotion while watching the American Idol contestants perform during the first-ever at-home episode, but it had nothing to do with her pregnancy.“I’m a feelings person and I always have been before this period of my life, so I’m always looking to not just hear the song [but] to feel the song,” the pop star, 35, told Us Weekly during a conference call on Sunday, April 26. “When a contestant gives me chill bumps or, like, lights up my back or my cheeks or physically moves me and I viscerally feel it, is when I know that they have something special.
It’s a physical reaction.”Perry, who hilariously wore an oversize hand sanitizer costume on Sunday’s episode amid the coronavirus pandemic, explained that she has
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