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.
“I was that girl, or am still that girl, that had that box, the baby clothes before there was the thought, or even an Orlando Bloom,” Katy Perry, 35, said during an interview with Australia’s Fifi, Fev & Byron before opening up about her decision to wait for motherhood. “I’m excited about that and like I said, I have two nieces and one nephew that I’m obsessed with.
I think, definitely, everything’s changing. I wasn’t ready a couple years ago, and I did the work to get ready and now I’m really ready.
I see a baby and I’m like [makes gaga face]. It’s just time for me and it’s the right time.” The “Waking Up In Vegas” singer was then asked if she had baby names picked out already to which she replied, “Yeah, of course.
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