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 Reveals She Had Suicidal Thoughts After 2017 Breakup with Orlando Bloom
justjared.comKaty Perry revealed she had contemplated suicide during 2017 after she broke up with Orlando Bloom and had certain career expectations. “My career was on this trajectory when it was going up, up, and up, and then I had the smallest shift, not that huge from an outside perspective.
But for me it was seismic,” Katy said during an interview on Q on CBC (via CNN). She said, “I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby daddy-to-be and then I was excited about flying high off the next record.
But the validation did not make me high, and so I just crashed.” “Gratitude is probably the thing that saved my life, because if I didn’t find that I would have wallowed in my own sadness and probably just jumped but I found the ways to be
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