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 keeps her private life out of the spotlight but she was in the mood to celebrate when she posted a family photo you need to see to believe.
The mum-of-one shares her young daughter, Daisy, with her fiancé, Orlando Bloom, but it was some other family members she was posing with in the Instagram snapshot.
MORE: Orlando Bloom reveals how he and Katy Perry first bonded over a cheeseburgerKaty wanted to wish her own mum a happy Mother’s Day with a throwback image, but it was one she apologised for.
WATCH: Katy Perry pushes baby Daisy in her pram In the snapshot, the singer was front and centre, smiling for the camera with her sister, Angela, and their mother, Mary, side-by-side.
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