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.
The year is 2055 and “democracy is dead” in America. That’s the dark vision of the future that Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are presenting as they make their film debut as a couple in Transmissions from the Future.
Just over one minute long, the short flick is a desperate plea to voters to urge their senators to pass the For The People Act.
In the film released on June 17, Katy, 36, and Orlando, 44, don long grey wigs as they race to film a message to broadcast to Americans in 2021. “We’ve gotta tell them,” the pop singer says before they interrupt regular programming. “You are our only hope,” the British actor says in the video above. “The America you know doesn’t exist in our future.
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