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.
Yungblud: “Katy Perry’s ‘California Gurls’ and ‘I Kissed A Girl’ felt so punk rock to me”
nme.comYungblud has praised Katy Perry in a new interview, saying that her songs ‘California Gurls’ and ‘I Kissed A Girl’ “felt so punk rock to me”.The Doncaster musician, who recently released his second album ‘Weird!’, said that he considered Perry to be “such a rock star”.Speaking to The Daily Star, Yungblud recalled hearing Perry’s ‘California Gurls’ (released in May 2010) and her 2008 debut single ‘I Kissed A Girl’ for the first time, saying that “all that stuff was so punk rock to me”.“I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember anyone else at that time doing anything like that,” he added, before explaining how Perry influenced the song ‘Cotton Candy’ on ‘Weird!’.“I just wanted a balls-to-the-wall song about sex, sexual liberation [and].
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