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 Wins Appeal Over Christian Rap Plagiarism Lawsuit
pitchfork.comIn October, Katy Perry, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, Capitol Records, and others filed an appeal seeking to overturn or retry a ruling which claimed that Perry’s “Dark Horse” plagiarized Flame’s 2009 Christian rap single “Joyful Noise.” Today (March 17), a judge has wiped out the earlier $2.8 million jury judgement against Perry and her associates.
Read the full verdict below. During the trial, Perry and Dr. Luke claimed they hadn’t heard “Joyful Noise.” The appeal from Perry and the rest called the jury verdict “legally unsupportable” and “a grave miscarriage of justice.” In the Tuesday decision about the appeal, U.S.
District Court Judge Christina Snyder cited analysis from musicologist Todd Decker. She ultimately ruled that the eight-note
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