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.
Freya Ridings Blood Orange interview: "I was rewarded for heartbreak - but I couldn't live like that forever"
officialcharts.comThe skin of the blood orange fruit is thick. So thick that when you finally break through it to taste the bitter sweet flesh, you realise that you had to work hard for something that tastes so good.
Freya Ridings knows how that feels. So much so, she named her new album - Blood Orange, her second and most accomplished album yet - after it.
It's a rich and sumptuous record, as adept at turning out big pop moments (the disco flourishes of Weekends which returned her to the UK Top 40 this year, the hands-in-the-air Katy Perry-esque Dancing In A Hurricane) with tender balladeering which helped Freya breakout with her self-titled 2019 debut album (Face In The Crowd). "I'll always be a ballad girl at heart," Freya tells us from her home in London. "But [2019 single] Castles really taught me the beauty of a big pop moment.
I wanted Blood Orange to take you on a journey." And that journey is actually Freya's own. The album tells the store of a painful breakup with an ex-boyfriend and all the heartbreak, insecurities and doubts you feel knowing you might never see the love of your life again.
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