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 Pays Tribute to Her Late Grandmother: 'She Started it All'
billboard.comKaty Perry posted a lengthy, loving tribute to her grandmother on Monday morning (March 9), after Ann Pearl Hudson died at age 99 on Sunday. "I don’t know when a soul enters a new vehicle but if there is an afterlife where there’s a waiting room of the coming and going my mind wonders if the soul that is waiting to come into my world is getting a kiss on the forehead from my sweet Grandma that departed this earth yesterday.
My heart hopes so," wrote Perry, 35, who revealed last week that she and fianceé Orlando Bloom are expecting their first child this summer via the video for her song "Never Worn White." "If she is able to speak with the soul in waiting the conversation would probably include 'are sure you wanna pick this wild group?!'
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