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 Dark Horse copyright lawsuit
peoplemagazine.co.zaKaty Perry has scored a major win in her long-running copyright battle over the song Dark Horse. Seven months after a California jury agreed Perry, producer Lukasz Gottwald, and others had ripped off Christian rapper Marcus Gray’s track Joyful Noise, U.S.
District Court Judge Christina Snyder has reversed the verdict. Gray, aka Flame, was awarded a $2.8 million (£2.3 million) payout at the jury trial last summer, which has now been nixed by Judge Snyder, who reviewed all the evidence and disagreed with the original verdict. “It is undisputed in this case, even viewing the evidence in the light most favourable to plaintiffs, that the signature elements of the 8-note ostinato in Joyful Noise… is not a particularly unique or rare combination,”
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