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.
fiancé Orlando Bloom. The singer, is expecting her first child with the actor, admitted she was left feeling "broken in half" following her temporary break-up and poor album sales.
In a new interview, the pregnant Fireworks singer, 35, revealed she had “crashed” at rock bottom due to her album's chart failure.
Speaking to radio station SiriusXM CBC, she said: “My career was on this trajectory when it was going up, up and up and then I had the smallest shift, not that huge from an outside perspective.
But for me it was seismic. “I had given so much out, and it literally broke me in half."I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby daddy-to-be and then I was excited about flying high off the next record.
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