Katy Perry

Katheryn Hudson (Katy Perry) was born on the 25th of October 1984, in Santa Barabara, California. She is a singer, songwriter, musician and is well known for her extremely over the top fashion sense, stage props and songs. This is very shocking but Katy’s parents were conservative and never let her listen to any type of rock or popular music. The kids in her family were not even allowed to watch such channels on TV like MTV or VH1. she started taking singing lessons at the age of 9 and at the age of 13 learned to play the guitar. She started going against her strict parents and even got a nose piercing. She then decided that she wanted a career in the music industry. Katy went to Nashville with he mother, a lot to record her album ‘Katy Hudson’ which had been released in 2001. However, the label got bankrupt. She started to expose herself to many musical influences and in high school she was her own person. At the age of 17, she got her GED and moved to Los Angeles to work with producer and songwriter, Glen Ballard. She had a tough time in LA where she was very very low on money. She had many disappointments before she got her big break. After having 3 record deals fall apart, she signed with Capitol in 2007.In that year she released her first single ‘Ur so gay’ and her career didn’t take off till her next single ‘I kissed a girl’ and her Teenage Dreams album was released in 2010.