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.
For anyone single and looking, the past year has been, well, trying, to say the least. Someone who knows this all too well is Grace Davies, whose latest track I Met A Boy Online was created last year during the first lockdown, when those still keen to mingle were forced to do so - awkwardly, in most cases - virtually.
Co-written and produced by Sophie 'Frances' Cook (whose credits include Dua Lipa, Katy Perry and Maisie Peters), this new live session of I Met A Boy Online premiered below strips down its piano-led production even further, exposing the anxieties of what might happen when a virtual date leads to real-life meetups. “I wrote this song during lockdown 1.0 when everyone was adjusting to this new way of virtually dating," Grace
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