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.
Interpol on The Killers song they’d like to cover
nme.comInterpol have revealed which songs by The Killers they would like to cover on stage one day.The New York band were asked the question by a fan in a recent interview in The Guardian, which referred to the fact that The Killers had once covered them during a gig.Frontman Paul Banks responded that the song he would choose is ‘Somebody Told Me’. “The Killers are all great players and for me Brandon Flowers is like Rihanna or Katy Perry: a pretty pop voice, but there’s grain in there, there’s soul.”In contrast, guitarist Daniel Kessler chose the Las Vegas band’s ‘Human’. “I really like the emotion and the lyric,” he said.Flowers and co played a version of ‘Obstacle 1’ from Interpol’s 2002 debut album ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ at the 2016 Governors Ball in New York City, which you can watch below.Introducing the song that day, Flowers said: “You had the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,” he said. “But there was another band who were darker and more mysterious.
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