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| Born | Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson October 25, 1984 |
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| Years active | 2001–present |
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| Partner(s) | Orlando Bloom (2016–present; engaged) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Frank Perry (uncle) |
| Awards | Full list |
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| Website | katyperry |
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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. She is known for her influence on modern pop music and her camp style, being dubbed the "Queen of Camp" by Vogue and Rolling Stone. At 16, Perry released a gospel record titled Katy Hudson (2001) under Red Hill Records, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles at 17 to venture into secular music, and later adopted the stage name "Katy Perry" from her mother's maiden name. She recorded an album while signed to Columbia Records, but was dropped before signing to Capitol Records.
Perry rose to fame with One of the Boys (2008), a pop rock record containing her debut single "I Kissed a Girl" and follow-up single "Hot n Cold", which reached number one and three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 respectively. The disco-influenced pop album Teenage Dream (2010) spawned five U.S. number one singles—"California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"— the only album by a female singer to do so. A reissue of the album titled Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection (2012) subsequently produced the U.S. number one single "Part of Me". Her empowerment-themed album Prism (2013) had two U.S. number one singles, "Roar" and "Dark Horse". Both their respective music videos made Perry the first artist to have multiple videos reach one billion views on Vevo and YouTube. The electropop album Witness (2017) featured themes of feminism and a political subtext, while Smile (2020) was influenced by motherhood and her mental health journey. Afterwards, she embarked on her Las Vegas concert residency titled Play (2021–2023), receiving critical acclaim and commercial success.
Perry is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 143 million records worldwide. All of her major-label studio albums have individually surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.[1] She has nine U.S. number one singles, three U.S. number one albums, and the second-most U.S. diamond certified singles for any female artist (4). She has received various accolades, including a Billboard Spotlight Award, four Guinness World Records, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award. Forbes ranked Perry as the world's highest-paid female musician in 2015 and 2018, and as one of the wealthiest musicians with an estimated net worth of $350 million. Outside of music, she released an autobiographical documentary titled Katy Perry: Part of Me in 2012, voiced Smurfette in The Smurfs film series, and launched her own shoe line Katy Perry Collections in 2017. Perry served as a judge on American Idol from the sixteenth season in 2018 to the twenty-second season in 2024. She is also the second most-followed woman and the sixth most-followed person on Twitter, with over 106 million followers.
Life and career[edit]
1984–1999: Early life and family[edit]
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine (née Perry) and Maurice Keith Hudson.[2][3] Both of her parents turned to religion after a "wild youth".[4] Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry.[5] Through her mother, she is a niece of film director Frank Perry.[6] She has a younger brother named David, who is also a singer,[7] and an older sister, Angela.[8]
From ages three to 11, Perry frequently moved across the country as her very strict parents set up churches before settling again in Santa Barbara. Growing up, she attended religious schools and camps, including Paradise Valley Christian School in Arizona and Santa Barbara Christian School in California during her elementary years.[3][9] The family struggled financially,[10] sometimes using food stamps and eating food from the food bank which also fed the congregation at her parents' church.[11]
Growing up, Perry and her siblings were not allowed to eat the cereal Lucky Charms as the word "luck" reminded their mother of Lucifer, and were also required to call deviled eggs "angeled eggs".[12] Perry primarily listened to gospel music,[13] as secular music was generally discouraged in the family's home. She discovered popular music through CDs she sneaked from her friends.[14] Perry later recalled a story about how a friend of hers played "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette, which impacted her songwriting and singing.[15]
While not strictly identifying as religious, she has stated, "I pray all the time – for self-control, for humility."[16] Wanting to be like her sister Angela, Perry began singing by practicing with her sister's cassette tapes. She performed the tracks in front of her parents, who let her take vocal lessons like Angela was doing at the time. She began training at age nine[17] and was incorporated into her parents' ministry,[4] singing in church from ages nine to 17.[18] At 13, Perry was given her first guitar for her birthday,[4][19] and publicly performed songs she wrote.[10] She tried to "be a bit like the typical Californian girl" while growing up, and started rollerskating, skateboarding, and surfing as a teenager. Her brother David described her as a "tomboy" during her adolescence, which Perry talks about on her song "One of the Boys".[20] She took dancing lessons and learned how to swing, Lindy Hop, and jitterbug.[21] Perry completed her General Educational Development (GED) requirements early at age 15,[22] during her first year of high school,[23] and left Dos Pueblos High School to pursue a music career.[24]
2000–2006: Career beginnings, Katy Hudson, and Fingerprints[edit]
Perry briefly had vocal lessons with a woman named Agatha Danoff[25] in facilities rented from the Music Academy of the West.[26] Her singing caught the attention of rock artists Steve Thomas and Jennifer Knapp from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to improve her writing skills.[24] In Nashville, she started recording demos and learned how to write songs and play guitar.[13] Perry signed with Red Hill Records and recorded her debut album, a contemporary Christian record titled Katy Hudson, which was released on March 6, 2001. She also went on tour that year as part of Phil Joel's Strangely Normal Tour[27][28] and embarked on other performances of her own in the United States.[29] Katy Hudson received mixed reviews from critics and was commercially unsuccessful, selling an estimated 200 copies before the label ceased operations in December.[30][31] Transitioning from gospel music to secular music, Perry started working with producer Glen Ballard,[32] and moved to Los Angeles at age 17.[33] She opted to work with Ballard due to his past work with Alanis Morissette, one of her major inspirations. In 2003, she briefly performed as Katheryn Perry, to avoid confusion with actress Kate Hudson, and later adopted the stage name "Katy Perry", using her mother's maiden name.[34] In 2010, she recalled that "Thinking of You" was one of the first songs she wrote after moving to Los Angeles.[35] Perry would also perform at the Hotel Café, performing new music while she was between record labels.[36]
In 2004, she signed to Ballard's label, Java Records, which was then affiliated with The Island Def Jam Music Group. Perry began work on a solo record due for release in March 2005, but the record was shelved after Java was dropped.[37] Ballard then introduced her to Tim Devine, an A&R executive at Columbia Records, and she was signed as a solo artist. By November 2006, Perry had finished writing and recording material for her Columbia debut titled Fingerprints (with some of the material from this time appearing on One of the Boys) which was planned for release in 2007.[38] Some of the material from Fingerprints that did not make it on One of the Boys was given to other artists, such as "I Do Not Hook Up" and "Long Shot" to Kelly Clarkson and "Rock God" to Selena Gomez & the Scene.[39][40]
Perry worked with songwriters including Desmond Child, Greg Wells, Butch Walker, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, the Matrix, Kara DioGuardi, Max Martin, and Dr. Luke.[41][42] In addition, after Devine suggested that songwriting team the Matrix become a "real group", she recorded an album, The Matrix, with them.[43] The Matrix was planned for release in 2004 but was cancelled due to creative differences. It was released in 2009 after the release of One of the Boys. Perry was dropped from Columbia in 2006 as Fingerprints neared completion. After the label dropped her, she worked at an independent A&R company, Taxi Music.[44]
Perry had minor success prior to her breakthrough. One of the songs she had recorded for her album with Ballard, "Simple", was featured on the soundtrack to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.[45] Perry provided backing vocals on Mick Jagger's song "Old Habits Die Hard",[46] which was included on the soundtrack to the 2004 film Alfie.[47] In September 2004, Blender named her "The Next Big Thing".[45] She recorded background vocals on P.O.D.'s single "Goodbye for Now", was featured at the end of its music video in 2006, and performed it with them on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[48] That year, Perry also appeared in the music video for "Learn to Fly" by Carbon Leaf, and played the love interest of her then-boyfriend, Gym Class Heroes lead singer Travie McCoy, in the band's music video for "Cupid's Chokehold".[49]
2007–2009: Breakthrough with One of the Boys[edit]
After Columbia dropped Perry, Angelica Cob-Baehler, then a publicity executive at the label, brought Perry's demos to Virgin Records chairman Jason Flom. Flom was convinced that she could be a breakthrough star and she was signed to Capitol Records in April 2007. The label arranged for her to work with Dr. Luke to add an "undeniable smash" to her existing material.[50][51] Perry and Dr. Luke co-wrote the songs "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" for her second album One of the Boys. A campaign was started with the November 2007 release of the video to "Ur So Gay", a song aimed at introducing her to the music market.[52] A digital EP of the same name was also released that month.[53] Madonna helped publicize the song by praising it on the JohnJay & Rich radio show in April 2008,[54] stating "Ur So Gay" was her "favorite song" at the time.[55] In March 2008, Perry made a cameo appearance as a club singer in the Wildfire episode "Life's Too Short"[56] and appeared as herself during a photo shoot that June on The Young and the Restless for the show's magazine Restless Style.[57]
Perry released her first single with Capitol, "I Kissed a Girl", on April 28, 2008,[58] as the lead single from One of the Boys. The first station to pick up the song was WRVW in Nashville, who were inundated with enthusiastic calls the first three days they played it.[59] The track reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.[60] "I Kissed a Girl" created controversy among both religious and LGBT groups. The former criticized its homosexual theme, while the latter accused her of using bi-curiosity to sell records. In response to speculation that her parents opposed her music and career, Perry told MTV that they had no problems with her success.[61] One of the Boys, released on June 17, 2008, garnered mixed critical reviews and reached number nine on the US Billboard 200.[62][63] The album went on to sell 7 million copies worldwide.[64] "Hot n Cold" was released the following September[65] and became the album's second successful single, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100[66] while topping charts in Germany,[67] Canada,[68] the Netherlands[69] and Austria.[70] Later singles "Thinking of You" and "Waking Up in Vegas" were released in 2009[71][72] and reached the top 30 of the Hot 100.[66] The Matrix's self-titled debut album, which Perry had recorded with the band in 2004, was released onto iTunes on January 27, 2009, as a result of her solo success.[47][73]
After finishing the 2008 Warped Tour,[74] Perry hosted the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2008, where she won the award for Best New Act.[75] At the 2009 Brit Awards, she also won the award for International Female Solo Artist.[76] Perry embarked on her first headlining world tour, the Hello Katy Tour, from January to November 2009 to support One of the Boys.[77] On August 4, 2009, she performed as opening act for one date of No Doubt's 2009 Summer Tour.[78] Perry also hosted the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2009, becoming the first person to host two consecutive ceremonies of the European awards.[79] On July 22, 2009, Perry recorded a live album titled MTV Unplugged, which featured acoustic performances of five tracks from One of the Boys as well as one new song, "Brick by Brick", and a cover of Fountains of Wayne's "Hackensack".[80] It was released on November 17, 2009.[81] Perry also appeared on two singles with other artists; she was featured on a remix of Colorado-based band 3OH!3's song "Starstrukk" in September 2009,[82] and on a duet with Timbaland entitled "If We Ever Meet Again", from his album Shock Value II, three months later.[83][84] The Guinness World Records recognized her in its 2010 edition as the "Best Start on the U.S. Digital Chart by a Female Artist", for digital single sales of over two million copies.[85]
After Perry and Travie McCoy split up in December 2008,[86] they briefly reconciled before she ended their relationship in 2009.[87][88] Perry met her future husband Russell Brand in the summer of 2009 while filming a cameo appearance for his film Get Him to the Greek. Her scene, in which the two kiss, does not appear in the film.[89] She began dating Brand after meeting him again that September at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.[90] The couple became engaged on December 31, 2009, while vacationing in Rajasthan, India.[91]
2010–2012: Teenage Dream and marriage[edit]
After serving as a guest judge on American Idol,[92] Perry released "California Gurls" featuring Snoop Dogg on May 7, 2010.[93] The song was the lead single from her third studio album, Teenage Dream, and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June.[94] She also served as a guest judge on British The X Factor later that month[95] before releasing the album's second single, "Teenage Dream", in July.[96] "Teenage Dream" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in September.[97] Released on August 24, 2010,[98] Teenage Dream debuted at number one on the Billboard 200,[99] and received mixed reviews from music critics.[100] It has since sold 6 million copies worldwide.[101] Teenage Dream would go on to win the 2011 Juno Award for International Album of the Year.[102] In October, "Firework" was released as the album's third single.[103] It became the album's third consecutive number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 8, 2010.[104]
"E.T." featuring Kanye West was released as the fourth single from Teenage Dream on February 16, 2011.[105] It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five non-consecutive weeks, making Teenage Dream the ninth album in history to produce four number one singles on the chart.[106] "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" followed as the fifth single in June,[107] and Perry became the first female artist to achieve five number-one Billboard Hot 100 songs from one album when the single topped that chart on August 17, and the second artist after Michael Jackson with his album Bad.[108] For this record, she received an honorary American Music Award in November 2011[109] and a 2013 Guinness World Record.[110] On September 7, she set a new record by becoming the first artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100.[111] After "The One That Got Away" was released as the album's sixth single in October, Teenage Dream became the third album to spawn six top-five songs on the Billboard Hot 100 after Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson and Faith by George Michael.[112][113] The song peaked at number three in the US[114] and number two in Canada.[68]
On January 5, 2012, Perry was named the sixth best-selling digital artist in the United States, with sales of 37.6 million units according to Nielsen SoundScan.[115] That month, she became the first artist to have four songs sell over 5 million digital units when "E.T." reached that mark along with "Firework", "California Gurls", and "Hot N Cold".[116] On February 13, Capitol released the lead single from Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, "Part of Me", which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Perry's seventh single overall to top the chart.[117] Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection was released on March 23,[118] and serves as a reissue of Teenage Dream.[119] "Wide Awake" was released on May 22 as the re-release's second single,[120] peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100[114] and number one in Canada[68] and New Zealand.[121]
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