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About Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California, the middle child of two Pentecostal pastors — Mary Christine Hudson (née Perry) and Keith Hudson. She was raised on a strict religious upbringing in which secular music was largely banned in the household, took up singing in church, and started releasing music as a gospel artist under her birth name on the Christian label Red Hill Records (a self-titled debut album, Katy Hudson, in 2001 that sold roughly two hundred copies before the label folded). The pivot toward mainstream pop came when she moved to Los Angeles at seventeen, took her mother's maiden name Perry as the stage handle (to avoid confusion with the actress Kate Hudson), and went through three deals — Island Def Jam, Columbia, Capitol — before the Capitol partnership stuck and produced the breakthrough record. One of the Boys arrived in June 2008 — Ur So Gay, I Kissed a Girl, Hot n Cold, Thinking of You, Waking Up in Vegas — and the lead single I Kissed a Girl, a deliberately provocative bisexual-curious pop song that the singer has subsequently reflected on with mixed feelings about its execution, went to number one in the US and over twenty other countries and broke her into the absolute mainstream. Teenage Dream in August 2010 was the run that defined her career: California Gurls (the Snoop Dogg-featuring summer single), Teenage Dream (the title track), Firework, E.T. (the Kanye West-featuring single), and Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) all hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, tying the Michael Jackson Bad record for most number-one singles from a single album and a feat that has not since been matched. The deluxe re-release Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection in 2012 added Part of Me and Wide Awake as additional singles. Prism in October 2013 produced Roar (the comeback empowerment anthem that hit number one), Dark Horse (the Juicy J-featuring single that also hit number one), and Unconditionally — a deliberately more adult-pop pivot away from the candy-coloured Teenage Dream aesthetic toward something closer to the EDM-era club-pop of the mid-2010s. Witness in June 2017 was the deliberately conceptual political-pop turn — Chained to the Rhythm, Bon Appétit, Swish Swish — that landed in a fractured media environment and did not match the chart performance of the preceding records. Smile in August 2020 was the post-divorce-from-Russell-Brand, post-American-Idol-debut, motherhood-era record (her daughter Daisy Dove with Orlando Bloom was born the same week the album dropped) and produced Daisies and Smile as the lead singles. 143 in September 2024 — the sixth studio album, executive-produced by Dr. Luke whose return to the production credit prompted significant industry and critical conversation — produced Woman's World and Lifetimes as the lead singles and is the album the current touring cycle supports. The American Idol judge run from March 2018 through May 2024 — seven seasons across the ABC reboot of the franchise — placed her at the centre of mainstream American television for nearly a decade and broadened the audience well past the original Teenage Dream-era pop base. The two-year Las Vegas residency Play at Resorts World Theatre (16-show initial run, December 2021, extended through November 2023 across roughly eighty performances) was the deliberately theatrical between-tour residency project that kept the live show in steady rotation through the Smile-to-143 album cycle. The April 2025 Blue Origin NS-31 suborbital spaceflight — an eleven-minute trip past the Kármán line on the New Shepard rocket alongside Lauren Sánchez (Jeff Bezos's fiancée at the time of the flight), Gayle King, and four other crew members — drew significant cultural and political attention and folded into the post-flight Lifetimes Tour promotional cycle. She remains based in Los Angeles, raises her daughter Daisy Dove with Orlando Bloom (engaged since 2019; the relationship has been intermittently public), and is signed to Capitol Records.

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