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.
Bonnie McKee Looks Back on the Decade-Long Road to Her New Sophomore Album ‘Hot City’: ‘I’m Finally Seeing My True Calling’
variety.comSteven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer “I think I found the name of the album that Bonnie did with Epic,” wrote a user named Muri on fan forum PopHatesFlops in Dec.
2016. Muri was referring to “Hot City,” the lost sophomore album from pop singer Bonnie McKee that her label at the time, Epic Records (a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment), shelved after the release of her 2014 single “American Girl.” At that point, McKee was industry prevalent for her cowrites on five number-one singles for Katy Perry plus smash hits for Britney Spears and Taio Cruz.
But as a solo artist, she became known as a casualty of passive pop consumption, tossed aside when “American Girl” peaked at No.
24 on Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40 — apparently not high enough to convince the label that she was worth the investment. On PopHatesFlops, “Hot City” became a holy grail.
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