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 getting parenting crash course during lockdown
peoplemagazine.co.zaThe coronavirus lockdown has given Katy Perry the chance to get to grips with parenting before she becomes a first-time mum this summer.
The pregnant pop star is self-isolating with fiance Orlando Bloom and his nine-year-old son, Flynn, as well as various young family members and the experience is serving as a crash course in parenting. “There is a three year old and a six year old and my brother has an eight-month-old baby, and Orlando has a son of nine,” she tells U.K.
chat show host Graham Norton. “I’m learning to be a mom fast. Kids gravitate towards me through my music, so I am used to them, but I am not used to being woken up really early in the morning by them staring at me from the side of my bed!” The Firework hitmaker recently
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