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.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift’s bodyguard isn’t the only one joining Israel’s war against Hamas
nypost.comfight with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against Hamas, The Post has learned that he’s not the only celeb bodyguard to do so.Oded Krashinsky, who has protected celebrities like Nicole Kidman, flew from Los Angeles to Israel to help train IDF soldiers and kibbutz members in Northern Israel.“I came here to help my unit.
The morale is tense. The main threat is invasion — we have to deflect it, fight it, and protect against it,” the 54-year-old head of Los Angeles-based Advanced Security Concepts told The Post.Krashinsky, a veteran lieutenant in an IDF secret service special operations unit, added: “I am who I am because I came from here.
At the end of the day, it’s about experience, decision-making, tactics, and leadership — that’s what I felt I could bring and that’s what I do now.” IDF-trained security guards have long been a high priority for big stars.“The security bodyguard community in Hollywood since the ’70s saw an influx of Israeli combat veterans coming to Los Angeles,” Aaron Cohen — an Israeli special operations vet who served in the IDF in the late 1990s and more recently worked with Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, and Katy Perry — told The Post.One of the pioneers, Cohen noted, was Elizabeth Taylor’s late bodyguard Moshe Alon who built a security company hiring Israeli security service members for Hollywood stars.Cohen added that now, “There’s a lot of them going back [to Israel to fight].
These guys are very deeply connected.” It was revealed Monday that Swift’s security guard had also returned to Israel to join the fight against Hamas.
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