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 paid the best tribute to JLo and Ben Affleck’s famous kiss
msn.comKaty Perry did as she enjoyed a family vacation in Italy and shared a few in her latest Instagram post, but the element of surprise she added into it made fans do a double-take (and fill her comments with laughing emojis).
The Firework singer slipped in the now-famous photo of Jennifer Lopez kissing Ben Affleck, which marked the first time the duo had been spotted engaging in PDA after reuniting last month. MORE: Katy Perry mesmerizes fans with a sexy new lookKaty stunned in a Reformation floral 'Lillet' dress on her Venice vacation with fiancé Orlando BloomKaty’s celebrity friends and fans could not stop giggling when they spotted the photo in the swipe. “6th swipe took me out”, Sofia Richie wrote.
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