Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, who popularly known as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter as well as television judge. Katy pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager, after singing in church during her childhood. Katy signed with Red Hill Records and in 2001, released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name, which was commercially unsuccessful. Katy moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations. Later, Katy began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke and Max Martin. In April 2007, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records, after adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records.
In 2008, Katy rose to fame with her second album, ‘One of the Boys,’ a pop rock record containing the controversial United States number one song ‘I Kissed a Girl’ and ‘Hot n Cold’. All subsequent albums have topped the United States Billboard 200 and the disco-influenced Teenage Dream (2010) spawned five chart topping United States Billboard Hot 100 singles ‘California Gurls’, ‘Teenage Dream’, ‘Firework’, ‘E.T.’ and ‘Last Friday Night’ — a record tying her with Michael Jackson’s Bad. Its follow-up record Prism (2013) was inspired by Katy’s divorce and incorporates pop and dance together with themes of self-reflection, everyday life as well as relationships. She became the first artist to have multiple videos reach one billion views on Vevo, with the music videos for its chart-topping songs ‘Roar’ and ‘Dark Horse’. On August 28, 2020, Katy’s sixth studio album Smile will follow.
She has nine United States Billboard Hot 100 number one singles and has also received various awards, including 4 Guinness World Records, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 5 American Music Awards, a Brit Award and a Juno Award. From 2011 to 2019, Katy has been included in the annual Forbes lists of highest-earning women in music. Katy is among the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold more than 18 million albums and 125 million singles worldwide. Katy released an autobiographical documentary known as Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012), in film, and voiced Smurfette in the 2011 film The Smurfs and its sequel in 2013. Perry’s Super Bowl XLIX halftime show performance is the most watched in history. In 2018, she began serving as a judge on American Idol.
Katy Perry Age
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born on October 25th, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California.
Katy Perry Family
Perry is daughter to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine and Maurice Keith Hudson. Perry’s parents are born again Christians, each having turned to religion after a wild youth and Katy has English, German, Irish as well as Portuguese ancestry. Katy is a niece of film director Frank Perry, through her mother. Katy has a younger brother known as David, who is a singer, and an older sister called Angela.
Josh Kloss
Josh Kloss, who is a model, worked with Perry on her Teenage Dream video (TDV) in 2010, came out with allegations that Katy exposed his genitals without his consent to her colleagues while at a party they attended together. This is not the first time Katy has been accused of questionable sexual behaviour, an American Idol contestant claimed Katy kissed him without his consent some years back, but the man declined to press charges. In 2017, Katy was also caught on camera grabbing bum of Shawn Mendes when he was still a teenager.
Never Really Over
It’s a song recorded by her and was released on May 31, 2019 as the lead single from her sixth studio album Smile (2020). It’s an electropop track that samples ‘Love You Like That’ by Norwegian singer Dagny and the song peaked within the top 10 in countries such as Australia, Canada, Hungary, Mexico and Scotland, as well as the top 20 in countries which include Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, UK and US. The song was nominated for Most Performed Pop Work of the Year, at the APRA Music Awards of 2020.
Orlando Bloom
In January 2016 Orlando Bloom met Perry and the two got engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2019. Katy revealed that she was pregnant in a music video for ‘Never Worn White’. Orlando shared a son with his ex-wife, supermodel Miranda Kerr, and Katy was briefly married to a comedian Russell Brand. Amid rampant breakup reports, representatives for the two stars confirmed their split to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, on February 28, 2017. Later, Katy tweeted that ‘you can still be friends and love your former partners!’
Katy Perry Net Worth
Katy Perry’s estimated net worth for 2020 is approximately $330 million dollars and she is one of the best pop singers in the world.
Katy Perry Songs
-Roar
-Con Calma
-Dark Horse
-The One That Got Away
-Hot N Cold
-Bon appétit
-I Kissed a Girl
-Firework
-Last Friday Night
-Swish Swish
-California Gurls
-E.T.
-Part of Me
-Chained to the Rhythm
-Daisies
-Wide Awake
-Unconditionally
-Teenage Dream
-Never Really Over
-Thinking of You
-Hey Hey Hey
-Smile
-This Is How We Do
-365
-Birthday
-Never Worn White
-Harleys In Hawaii
-Rise
-Small Talk
-Ur So Gay
-Waking Up In Vegas
