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.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
The invaluable advice Stevie Nicks gave Katy Perry about music 'rivals'
wonderwall.comKaty Perry was in the midst of her well-documented feud with Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks stepped in to give her some advice: let it go.The Fleetwood Mac legend spoke about running into the "California Gurls" singer in London back in 2012.
During the chat, which Stevie relayed to the New Yorker, Katy asked Stevie about her "rivals.""I said, 'I don't have rivals.' And her big blue eyes got bigger and bluer," the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said. "And I said, 'No Katy, I don't, and neither do you.
You are Katy Perry, you're who you are, you do what you do and you're great at it. I'm Stevie Nicks, I do what I do and I'm great at it.
We don't have rivals. That's just ridiculous.' "As she listened to Stevie, 73, Katy referenced her differences with Taylor. "She said, 'Well, there's like, the Taylor Swift army and there's like, the Katy army and there's like —' And I was like, 'That's just bull****,' " Nicks recalled, telling the 37-year-old, "You have to just walk away from that.
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