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 gave her fiancé Orlando Bloom a shout-out for "portraying a real hero" in his new movie The Outpost. The 35-year-old pop star took to Instagram on Saturday (July 4) to share a trailer for the war drama, where Bloom plays a U.S.
soldier battling Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. "There’s many ways to celebrate the #FourthOfJuly One way is celebrating the stories of the incredible men and women who protect our freedoms every day," Perry wrote, adding a link to the film on Apple TV. "So proud of @orlandobloom for portraying a real hero.
Check out his incredible role in @theoutpostmovie, out today!" Bloom, who has been quarantining with his pregnant wife-to-be during the coronavirus pandemic, recently expressed being blown away by the
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