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.
Pregnant Katy Perry says she was ‘so ashamed’ to go on medication ‘for first time in my life’ amid bout of ‘depression’
thesun.co.ukKATY Perry has spoken of her "shame" at needing medication for depression. The 35-year-old singer, who is expecting a baby any day with Orlando Bloom, said that she couldn't get out of bed for weeks, and needed to get medical help. "I broke up with my boyfriend.
My expectations weren't met and the world didn't want to hear from me anymore at that moment," she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe to promote her new album, called Smile. "They were like, 'That's enough.
Thank you very much. You've given us something and we're good.' "And I just couldn't get out of bed for weeks and became clinically depressed and had to get on medication for the first time in my life." Perry added, "I was so ashamed of it.
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