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 hopes unborn baby and late grandmother will meet in soul waiting room
peoplemagazine.co.zaKaty Perry hopes her grandmother gets the chance to meet her unborn child in the netherworld before she gives birth later this year.
The pregnant star’s 99-year-old grandmother, Ann Pearl Hudson, passed away on Sunday (08Mar20), days after the Roar hitmaker confirmed she was expecting fiance Orlando Bloom’s kid, and the singer has taken to Instagram to share a deep and touching dedication.
In it she muses over a chance encounter between her child and her grandma. “I don’t know when a soul enters a new vehicle but if there is an afterlife where there’s a waiting room of the coming and going my mind wonders if the soul that is waiting to come into my world is getting a kiss on the forehead from my sweet Grandma that departed this earth
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