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.
Q on CBC, Katy Perry got very candid about her —specifically during a low point she reached in 2017 after splitting with her now-fiancé, .During the chat, the journalist referenced a quote Perry gave about how making her new album (out later this summer) was about "finding her smile again." She then elaborated on this."I lost my smile," said. "I don't know if my smile was ever fully, authentically mine.
But I was riding on the high of a smile for a long time, which was the validation and love and admiration from the outside world.
And then that shifted."That "shift" appears to have happened in 2017, when Perry released her fourth studio album, Witness, which didn't receive the same commercial and critical acclaim as her Teenage Dream (2010).
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