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.
Pregnant Katy Perry Says She and Fiance Orlando Bloom ‘Have Been Through F—king Hell’: ‘It’s Work’
usmagazine.comKaty Perry got real about the ups and downs of her relationship with fiancé Orlando Bloom as they await the birth of their first child.“For us, and you can hear that even in ‘Champagne Problems,’ which is a song on the record, you can hear that we’re not flaunting how in love we are,” the singer, 35, explained during her interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Thursday, August 20, referencing her upcoming album, Smile. “We have been through f—king hell.
We have been down to the mat and come back up again so far, and that’s even what the song ‘Witness’ was about. ‘If I lost it all today, would you stay?
Could you go down with me to the mat and come back up?’ I was testing that already. Your higher self always knows. Your higher self always.
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