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 Reveals 2017 Split From Now-Fiancé Orlando Bloom Resulted In Suicidal Thoughts
etcanada.comKaty Perry didn’t know how she would go on without Orlando Bloom. The couple are now set to marry but in a new interview on SiriusXM, Perry opened up about their brief split in 2017 while at the same time experiencing a career setback when her album Witness failed to live up to sales expectations.
RELATED: Katy Perry, Adam Lambert, And More Perform During ‘Can’t Cancel Pride’ “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,” she recalled, according to the Evening Standard. Describing how that shift “literally broke me in half,” the singer said, “I had broken up with my boyfriend, who is now my baby daddy-to-be and then
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