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.
John Mayer Opens up About His ‘Womanizer’ Past and Current Dating Life
glamour.comSpeak Now (Taylor's Version) , John Mayer is desperately attempting to pre-empt the “Dear John” allegations. Or maybe he's just feeling reflective.On the popular podcast “Call Her Daddy,” the Sob Rock singer, long characterized as something of a Hollywood Lothario, opened up about his current romantic life: “Dating is no longer a codified activity for me, it doesn’t exist in a kind of…it’s not patterned anymore,” he said, per .
That pattern, you may recall, included pairing up with A-listers like Swift, and Katy Perry. Oh, and to Jessica Simpson.Then again, booze often doesn't bring out the best in people, and Mayer is now sober. “I quit drinking like six years ago…So I don’t have the liquid courage.
I just have dry courage,” Mayer said, adding that without the social lubricant of alcohol, “You have to be honest…You have to be really, glaringly honest.” We love honesty!As for being labeled a “womanizer” in the past (was the media slut-shaming or calling out a toxic pattern?
YouTubers will unpack this for decades.), Mayer is evasive and noncommittal. “That is what that is,” he mused. “That’s the role I play on the big TV show I didn’t write, but that’s fine.
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