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 partners with Coca-Cola for, you know, just to be nice
completemusicupdate.comOut of the goodness of their hearts, Katy Perry and Coca-Cola have teamed up to spread a message of optimism and hope. Perry has lent a track to an advert, sorry, film (they’re calling it a film), called ‘Open To Better’.The track is a new Tiësto remix of ‘Resilient’, from Perry’s under-performing new album ‘Smile’, featuring new vocals from emerging artist Aitana.The accompanying ‘film’ is directed by Chloe Wallace and “reflects the positivity and optimism of the Coca-Cola ‘Open’ platform”.
That being a thing that the company launched earlier this year encouraging people to be nice to each other while drinking Coca-Cola.“To me, this campaign is about growing through challenges”, says Perry.
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