KATY PERRY
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson born 25 October 1984, is an American singer, songwriter and actress.
Katy Perry, who grew up in the world of gospel music, embarked on a musical career during her freshman year of high school under the name Katy Hudson.
At the beginning of her splendid career, she recorded a solo album, which was never released;
After signing a contract with 'Capitol Music Group' in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she decided to adopt the stage name Katy Perry, changing her previous surname to that of her mother, and also eliminating any resemblance to the name of actress Kate Hudson.
In 2008, she gained recognition of a major magnitude with the release of her first mainstream album 'One of the Boys', which resulted in three of the 'Billboard Hot 100' songs; just to name a few of the best known:
- "I Kissed A Girl";
- "Hot N Cold";
- "Waking Up In Vegas".
Later in 2010, the third album she released, entitled "Teenage Dream", slid to the top of the Billboard 200 chart in no time at all, generating five NUMBER 1 singles as a side reaction:
1. "California Gurls";
2. "Teenage Dream";
3. "Firework";
4. "ET";
5. "Last Friday Night (TGIF).
A curiosity about this album is that it was the only album since Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album to be so successful and above all to have 5 NUMBER #1 singles, and Katy is the first woman in history to reach this milestone.
Many are the records and achievements of this very talented artist:
- The Complete Confection on 26 March 2012 and the re-release that generated the NUMBER #1 single 'Part of Me';
- Katy Perry is the only artist to have spent more than 52 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, reaching 69 weeks;
- As of 2012, Katy was nominated for eight Grammy Awards;
- She was named MTV's 2011 Artist of the Year;
- She managed to sell 37.6 million digital tracks in the US and 11 million albums worldwide;
- She was judge-host of the seventh edition of "The X Factor UK" and the ninth edition of "American Idol";
- She created and marketed the fragrances 'Purr' and 'Meow';
- She was the voice actress of the character Smurfette in the 2011 film "The Smurfs";
- In 2016, she became engaged to actor Orlando Bloom and it was in 2020 that Katy announced her first pregnancy, communicating the joyous news with the video clip of a new song with an iconic title like yours truly:
'Never Worn White'.