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.
Tearing up! Katy Perry felt emotional during Francisco Martin‘s performance on the Sunday, May 3, American Idol episode.“I’m sorry.
I’m having a day,” the ABC show’s judge, 35, said. “I don’t fit into any of my stuff and then when you sang those lines about having four kids and then having one on each knee, I was, like, [crying].
Sure it’s hormones, but it was believability too. It was real believability, and I felt it.”The singer announced in March that she is pregnant and expecting her first child with her fiancé, Orlando Bloom.After debuting her baby bump in the “Never Worn White” music video, the singer tweeted, “Omg so glad I don’t have to suck it in anymore.
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