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.
Niall Horan has Katy Perry to thank for the moment that kickstarted his career. The 29-year-old “Slow Hands” crooner came to fame as a member of One Direction, the boy band that was formed on X Factor.
However, he revealed to Katy‘s fiancé Orlando Bloom that it never would have happened without her help.
He explained how during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Read more about Niall Horan’s conneciton to Katy Perry… While on the late night show, host James Corden pointed out that Katy, who was a guest judge on the show when he auditioned, was the deciding vote that sent him through to the next step. Niall agreed with the statement and said that Katy already “knows it,” too. “The whole time I’m walking onto the stage, and I’m just thinking like, ‘That’s Katy Perry.
That’s Simon Cowell.’ The whole thing, it looked like a postcard. It didn’t feel like it was real because I watched the show for so long on TV,” he recalled about the fated moment.
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