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 has said that living with children during the lockdown means she is “learning to be a mum fast”. The singer, who is pregnant, told the BBC’s Graham Norton Show that she has been spending the period living with some of her young relatives.
Perry, 35, is expecting her first child with her actor fiance Orlando Bloom. She told the programme: “I’m learning to be a mum 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.” Perry said she is spending lockdown with some of her young relatives (Getty Images) She said that she is living with “a three-year-old and a six-year-old and my brother has an
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