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 Opens Up About Past Mental Health Struggles in New Interview: 'I Lost My Smile'
billboard.comKaty Perry is getting real about mental health. In a new interview on Friday (June 26), the pop star opened up finding hope after going through some dark times back in 2017. "I lost my smile," the singer said told host Tom Power of Canadian radio show Q on CBC. "I don't know if my smile was ever fully, like, authentically mine but I was riding on the high of a smile for a long time.
Which was the validation, love, and admiration from the outside world, and then that shifted." According to Perry, the change was two-fold, precipitated by a break-up with her now-fiancé Orlando Bloom and the disappointing response to her 2017 LP Witness. "My career was on this trajectory where it was going up-up-up-up-up-up-up, and then I had the smallest
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