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 is thrilled with her daughter's favorite word! ET's Lauren Zima spoke to the 36-year-old singer at 's Power of Women event at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on Thursday, and Perry revealed her 1-year-old daughter, Daisy's, latest word obsession.«She is talking, but she thinks everything is a cat,» Perry, who shares Daisy with her fiancé, Orlando Bloom, said. "… When a person will walk in she will say 'Hi, gato!' I don't know why she is so fascinated with cats."«It's wild [because] people who love my music, they call themselves Katy Cats.
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