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 has some competition. During an interview on on Friday, Orlando Bloom shared that he sings to his and his fiancée's 6-month-old daughter, Daisy Dove, in hopes that her first word is «dad.»«I sing anything that has 'daddy' in it, just because I want her to say dad before she says anything else,» Bloom said, before breaking out in song and singing, «Daddy loves his Daisy Dove.»Comedian Aisling Bea then quipped, «Does the baby go like, 'Well, can you put Katy Perry on?'»«Yeah, she's like 'Mom's going to be much better at this than you,'» Bloom replied with a laugh, as host Graham Norton jokingly added, «Alexa, play mommy.»The star, however, may be in the lead, as he then shared that his baby girl has «sort of said a bit of.
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