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.
'American Idol' Winner Just Sam Says She Went Broke While Paying Off Her Record Label
justjared.comSamantha Diaz, who goes by the stage name Just Sam, has revealed that she “ended up broke” after paying off her record label.
The 23-year-old singer won the 18th season of American Idol back in 2020. The season was forced to go virtual during the middle of the pandemic and all of Sam‘s live performances were done from her hotel room in Los Angeles.
Before going on the show, Sam was a subway singer in New York City and she has since gone back to singing in the subway. Click inside to read what she said in a new interview… “I thought it was gonna be easy, just go to the studio, record, put out music,” Sam said on her Instagram Stories. “And that’s not how the world works.
That’s not how the industry works. It takes time, it takes money that I don’t have. It takes patience.” “I have people who are helping me.
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