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 says Ninth Circuit should reject latest Dark Horse song-theft claims on Stairway grounds
completemusicupdate.comKaty Perry’s legal team have urged the Ninth Circuit appeals court in the US to keep in place a lower court ruling in the big song-theft legal battle over her track ‘Dark Horse’.
Doing otherwise, they add, would go against the appeal court’s own judgement in the headline-grabbing ‘Stairway To Heaven’ case.Marcus Gray accuses Katy Perry and her collaborators of ripping off his song ‘Joyful Noise’ on her 2013 hit.
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