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.
Russell Brand Describes ‘Chaotic’ Experience of Being Married to ‘Amazing’ Katy Perry
usmagazine.comRussell Brand now has only good things to say about ex-wife Katy Perry, but he describes the time they were together as a combination of good things and bad things.“Aside from my, like, sort of feelings of affection for Katy, it’s a time that I remember as being a little bit chaotic and a bit, for me, I’ll speak for myself, a little disconnected,” Brand, 48, revealed during his appearance on the Sunday, August 6, episode of Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge.Brand explained that his relationship with Perry, 38, coincided with the point in his career when he was “most in the public eye” because of his roles in movies including Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek.“Some aspects of it were, like, amazing,” Brand told host Bear Grylls as they hiked through Scotland’s Hebrides islands. “She’s an amazing person, and it was kind of incredible to live for a moment in that ‘eye of the cyclone’ type aspect of fame.”Brand and Perry got engaged in late 2009 after three months of dating, and they tied the knot in October 2010 in a ceremony held in Rajasthan, India.
Just a year later, however, Brand filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.Brand later hinted that he and Perry disagreed about starting a family. “I was really into the idea of marriage and having children,” he explained during a 2012 interview with Howard Stern, adding that he didn’t feel comfortable sharing further details about the conversations they had. “I don’t want anything to hurt her.”Brand went on to welcome two children — daughters Mabel, 6, and Peggy, 5 — with wife Laura Gallacher, whom he wed in August 2017.
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