Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, 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. She rose to fame in 2008 with her second album, One of the Boys, a pop rock record containing the controversial U.S. number one song “I Kissed a Girl” Perry is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 18 million albums and 125 million singles worldwide.
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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, 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. She rose to fame in 2008 with her second album, One of the Boys, a pop rock record containing the controversial U. S number one song “I Kissed a Girl” Perry is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 18 million albums and 125 million singles worldwide. She has been included in the annual Forbes lists of highest-earning women in music from 2011 to 2019. Her estimated net worth as of 2016 is USD 125 million. Perry voiced Smurfette in the 2011 film The Smurfs and its sequel in 2013. Her Super Bowl halftime show performance is the most watched in history. Perry also began serving as a judge on American Idol in 2018. Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry. Through her mother, she is a niece of film director Frank Perry. She is a younger brother named David, who is a singer, and an older sister, Angela. She performed with her sister Angela at the age of 9, and was incorporated into her parents’ ministry’ ministry from ages 9 to 17. At 13, Perry was given her first guitar for her birthday, and publicly performed songs she wrote. She started dancing and swing dancing and learned how to swing, Lindy jittery, and jitterbug while growing up.
Her family struggled financially, sometimes using food stamps and eating food from the food bank which also fed the congregation at Perry’s parents’ church. 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 had to call deviled eggs “angeled eggs” Perry has nine U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number one singles and has received various awards, including four Guinness World Records, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards and a Brit Award. She released an autobiographical documentary titled Katy Perry: Part of Me in 2012, and voiced smurfettes in the 2012 film TheSmurfs. Her sixth studio album Smile followed in 2020. Perry became the first artist to have multiple videos reach one billion views on Vevo. In 2017’s electropop Witness featured a political subtext and a theme of liberation. The album’s lead single \”Chained to the Rhythm\” broke Spotify’s record at the time for most first-day streams for a song by a female artist. Perry’s brother David described her as a tomboy during her adolescence, and said she tried to be a bit like the typical Californian girl. She also performed singing practicing with her parents, and took vocal training at age 9. Her parents are born again Christians, each having turned to religion after a “wild youth”
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