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.
Russell Brand first dated Scots wife Laura when she was 19 after sister Kirsty introduced them
dailyrecord.co.ukRussell Brand's Scottish wife has been reported to be standing by him amid rape and sex assault allegations made against him.
The comedian and actor has been married to Laura for six years, but they met long before they tied the knot and had various attempts at getting together before finally making it official.Their romance started in 2007, when Laura was 19 and an art student and Russell, then 30, was working for Radio 2.
It’s been widely reported the pair were introduced by Laura’s sister, TV presenter Kirsty Gallagher, but the pair split soon after, and Russell would then go on to star in a slew of Hollywood movies and marry Katy Perry.
Bur they’d meet again in a chance reunion by the side of a canal in London in 2015, when the former BBC and Channel 4 host had just split from his popstar wife, and Laura was nursing a broken heart, having also just come out of a relationship.
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