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 just released the first single off her upcoming fifth studio album and she’s opening up about her decision to release an album this summer.
The 35-year-old singer just announced that the album is going to be released on August 14 and there’s a good reason why it’s coming out this summer instead of in 2021. “I have this body of work and there was a question of, do I wait until next year?
And I was like, one thing is for certain, I’m having a child this summer,” Katy said in an interview with New Music Daily on Apple Music. “My whole life is about to change and I’m sure I will have a whole new access to different emotions I never had, and will be able to write from, so I’m going to write a whole nother record probably when that
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