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 promises ‘inspirational anthems’ for new summer album
peoplemagazine.co.zaKaty Perry has no plans to stall the release of her “uplifting” sixth album due to the impending birth of her daughter. The 35-year-old singer dropped Daisies, the lead single from her new record, on Friday, and confirmed an album is set to follow in the next few months. “I have this body of work and there was a question of, do I wait until next year?
And I was like, one thing is for certain, I’m having a child this summer,” the Firework hitmaker said in an interview with New Music Daily on Apple Music. “My whole life is about to change and I’m sure I will have a whole new access to different emotions I never had, and will be able to write from, so I’m going to write a whole other record probably when that happens,” she added, noting that
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