The US Trends | Katy Perry | Katy Perry is a singer, songwriter and actress. SHE raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to gospel music and sang only in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during their first year of high school, he began to pursue a career in music. As Katy Hudson, released an album titled the Gospel in 2001, which failed. Later, She recorded an album with production team The Matrix and complete most of the solo in 2004-05, the last of which was never published. Perry is the first female artist to have five hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in a year.
Katy Perry
Katy Perry, Born Katheryn Hudson, 25, October 1984, IN Santa Barbara, California. The well-known over-the-top fashion, strange props, and catchy songs, Katy Perry has become a pop sensation.
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The fans may be surprised to learn that the singer, who writes about sexual exploration in the "I Kissed A Girl" grew up in a very conservative family. Both HER parents are pastors, and they refused to let her play all the rock and popular music. "The only thing I had to listen to were the Sister Act 1 and 2 soundtracks," Perry told Entertainment Weekly. She and her two brothers were also not allowed to view the cable channels like MTV and VH1.
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Katy Perry started taking singing lessons around the age of9 and learned to play guitar when she was13. Around this time,she began rebelling against her strict upbringing by piercing her own nose. She soon became interested in pursuing a career in music.With her mother, Perry made several trips toNashville to record a gospel album, Katy Hudson, which was released in 2001. "It reached literally maybe 100people,and then the label went bankrupt," Perry explained to Entertainment Weekly.
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As a teenager, Katy Perry was exposed to other musical influences. One friend introduced her to the music ofQueen, which remains one of her favorite groups."I'm very inspired by Freddie Mercury and how flamboyant and theatrical he was," she told fashion magazine WWD.In highschool, she strove to be her own person, choosing not to limit herself to one social group."I was a hop-around.I hung out with the rockabilly crew,the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids,"she told Seventeen magazine.
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Focused on her music, Katy Perry got herGED and moved to LosAngeles to work with producer and songwriter Glen Ballard, who had worked with such artists as ChristinaAguilera and AlanisMorissette. She was only 17years old at time, and being on her own proved tough. "It was five years of living inL.A. with no money, writing bad checks, selling my clothes to make rent, borrowing money," she told Seventeen magazine. Perry also experienced a string of disappointments before getting her big break.She and Ballard were unable to find a record company willing to take them on, and her2004collaboration with music producers-turned-performers The Matrix was scrapped shortly before the project was to be released. After having three record deals fall apart, Perry finally signed withCapitol in2007.
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After signing with Capitol Music Group in2007, her fourth record label in seven years,she adopted the stage name Katy Perry and released her first Internet single "Ur So Gay"that November,which garnered public attention but failed to chart.She rose to fame with the release of her second single "I Kissed a Girl" in2008, which went on to top international charts. Perry's first mainstream studio album One of the Boys followed later that year and subsequently became the33rd-best selling album worldwide of2008.It was accredited platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, while "I Kissed a Girl" and her second single "Hot n Cold" both received multi-platinum certifications. In2009, Billboard magazine named her the51st-best-selling music artist of the2000–2009decade.
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Later that year, Katy Perry released her first single, "Ur So Gay." Pop superstar Madonna became a fan of the song, calling it one of her favorites of the moment. The song drew comparisons to the likes of Lily Allen, another singer known for her quirky, cheeky lyrics. Perry said the single was inspired by the emo scene, and the "guys with guy-liner who use flatirons." Still, her career did not fully take off until the release of her next single, "I Kissed a Girl," which reached the top of the charts during the summer of 2008. With that song's success, her debut album, One of the Boys, made it into the Top10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song also earned Perry a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
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Her second studio album Teenage Dream was released inAugust2010 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album included the Billboard chart-toppers "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". The album produced five Hot 100 toppers, and was only the second album—after Michael Jackson's Bad—to do so. With "E.T." at number one on the chart of May 12, 2011, Katy Perry became the first artist in history to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, she remained in total 69th consecutive weeks in the Top 10.
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Katy Perry also became famous for her theatricality. On the Warped Tour, she performed "I Kissed a Girl" with a giant tube of lip balm, referencing a line in the song. Perry has also jumped into a larger-than-life cake and appeared in a number of wild outfits while onstage. She has described her style as "Lucille Ball meets Bob Mackie. It's about innuendo. I want everybody to get the joke, but I want them to think about it for a minute," she explained to Esquire magazine.
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In 2009, Perry performed HER acoustic special on MTV. The soundtrack features, Katy Perry: MTV Unplugged, was released in the same period. That same year, Perry has made tabloid headlines for her relationship with British comedian RussellBrand. A couple became engaged over New Year's Eve during a holiday trip to India. ONOctober 23. 2010, the couple married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in India. According to the Times of India featured the wedding procession of camels, elephants and horses, fire jugglers, snake charmers, dancers and musicians. Perry had previously datedTravis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes band.
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Katy Perry was a guest judge on the seventh series of British TV show The X Factor, has issued a perfume called "Purr" and voices Smurfette in the film The Smurfs 2011. Perry had a long relationship with Travis McCoy, BEFORE she married Russell Brand, 23 October 2010.
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The young pop star has great ambitions for HER future. "After all, I want Katy Perry to be both as much of a household like Madonna," She told Entertainment Weekly. TeenageDreams, her album was released in August 2010. The album's single, "California Gurls", quickly climbed the charts at number 1 on the Billboard charts. With a signature scent and opportunities in film role leading the way, she can just make her dream TO BE true.
Katy Perry
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Katy Perry
