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 quite a bit. On Sunday's the singer and judge explained how motherhood made her rethink some long-held ideas about how many kids she wanted in the first place.One of the first auditions of the night saw two teenage siblings, Liahona and Ammon, give it their all in the second week of auditions.When the young duo — who were performing together but audition separately with an original song they wrote — first hit the stage, they revealed that they were born «exactly one year apart.»«That means a lot of recovery [time],» Luke Bryan joked, referring to their mom.
Perry just welcomed her first child, daughter Daisy Dove, with fiance Orlando Bloom back in August, and the singer laughingly shot back, «No!
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