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.
Katy Perry calls marriage to Russell Brand a ‘tornado’ after revealing ‘he texted me about the divorce’
thesun.co.ukKATY Perry has moved on with a new baby with fiance Orlando Bloom. But she made a rare comment about her short-lived marriage to comedian Russell Brand, nine years since their split.
The singer, 35, called the marriage "like a tornado," as she promoted her new album on 60 Minutes Australia, in an interview which aired on Sunday.
Katy - who welcomed daughter Daisy Dove last Tuesday - described the relationship with Brand as the "first breaking of my idealistic mind." "I was having great success at 23, 24 and 25 and then I met someone that was interesting and stimulating.
It was just like a tornado, it was everything happening at once," she revealed. The "Smile" singer added that she has "always resonated with friction and resistance and.
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