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 Talks Being 'Super Friendly' With Taylor Swift, Shares New Pic of Massive Baby Bump
billboard.comKaty Perry has a good plan for her impending motherhood. But given how this year has gone so far, she's well aware that when "you have a plan God laughs." That's what she told Howard Stern on Tuesday morning (July 21) when she dialed in to chat with the SiriusXM titan for the first time in 12 years in a wide-ranging conversation about her upcoming album Smile, (due out Aug.
14), how she's feeling about her baby girl's impending birth and why she thinks wearing a mask is just the right thing to do.
While Perry didn't reveal her due date, she said the baby is coming "soon" and, thankfully, she's "not anxious at all about it. "I feel super blessed," she said, admitting that, physically, she's had a really easy pregnancy, but if the baby is
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