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.
The danger-loving divas who can’t resist a bad boy – from Katy Perry’s doomed marriage to Claire Sweeney’s mystery man
thesun.co.ukTHERE’s nothing more alluring than a bad boy – as these celebs found out the hard way. We told last week how Claire Sweeney’s new flame John Disley, 53, spent two years banged up for fraud.
The former Brookside actress has allegedly been seeing the scammer for over a year – and have enjoyed romantic jaunts to Paris and Barbados.
But Claire, 49, wouldn’t be the first to fall for a bloke who lives on the wild side. Relationship psychotherapist Nancy Elliott says they can be difficult to resist. “Evolutionary scientists believe that the more masculine a man is, the stronger they are," she explains. "A lot of these bad boys have a certain look or swagger.
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