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.
I played prank on Katy Perry which went horribly wrong – it was my most awkward moment on Radio 1, says Scott Mills
thesun.co.ukSAT in a cramped caravan outside the Brit Awards, Scott Mills was told Sir Elton John, Beyonce and Sting were all waiting to talk to him backstage.
It seemed like an “unfathomable dream” for the young Radio 1 DJ and he admits that night in 2009, in West London’s Earl’s Court, was when he knew he had made it.
But having started at the pop station in 1998, on the 4am to 7am “graveyard show”, over the past 24 years he has become one of Radio 1’s best-loved hosts.
Now, at 49, he is swapping his audience of teens and twentysome- things for the over-35s at Radio 2, in an “unmissable opportunity”.
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