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.
Believe it or not, life hasn’t been all sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops for Katy Perry. In a new profile in The Los Angeles Times, the superstar singer opened up about the not-so-glamorous side effects of her storied career in pop music, sharing that she used to suffer from clinical depression when things weren’t going well for her.
As fans know, the 35-year-old’s career hit a valley after the release of her fourth studio album, Witness, which fell short of expectations after her previous three albums — One Of The Boys, Teenage Dream, and Prism — set records with chart-topping hits. Related: Katy Says She & Former Nemesis Taylor Swift Fight Like Cousins After Witness, an album Katy Kat dubbed as “purposeful pop” flopped in 2017, her
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