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.
Noah Van Gilder is Crowned “Mr. Nice Jewish Boy 2024”
metroweekly.comMetro Weekly following his win. “It’s probably one of my oldest passions. So, I was thinking, how do you take that, and do it in a pageant format, where you’re trying to put on a show, you’re trying to maybe impress people a little bit.
And this was the best I could think of.”Following the announcement of Van Gilder’s win, he was surrounded by his fellow competitors and an array of past pageant winners and runners-up, who hoisted the titleholder — seated in a chair, clad in a white sash and a gold plastic crown — into the air, in a celebration reminiscent of the hora, a traditional Jewish wedding dance.
Contestants in the pageant are required to perform a group dance number, show off a talent, and answer questions from a panel of judges to prove they are prototypical “Nice Jewish Boys” (or the femme or nonbinary equivalent).
The event began with a video parodying a “Housewives” reality franchise and remarks by the host, local drag phenom Vagenesis.
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