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.
Ellie Goulding’s ‘Brightest Blue’: Album Review
variety.comA.D. Amorosi Ellie Goulding may not be not a household name in America in the same star electro-pop universe that contains brand-name contemporaries such as Katy Perry, Lorde and Florence Welch.
But if so, who wants to live in that house, anyway?Ever since the anthemic, soft-EDM pop of 2010’s “Lights” and its accompanying folktronic album of the same name, the clarion-clear and haughtily emotive British soprano vocalist and songwriter has tested the boundaries of the usually chipper genre with mood-swing musicality.
Along with busying her sonic palette with leaps in tremor and tone — from acoustic, gouache-like etherealism to happy stuttering house to maudlin ambient swish with a folk twist — Goulding has shown a willingness to experiment,.
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