Katy he grew up listening only to evangelical music and, like his brothers, he was not allowed to listen to what his mother called “profane music“At age 9 he began singing in his parents’ church, and simultaneously took singing lessons while attending Christian schools and camps.
When I was 15 years old, Katy she was singing in church and caught the attention of veteran rock musicians from Nashville, Tennessee, who introduced her to the world of commercial music. In Nashville, Perry He started recording demos and learned how to create songs and play the guitar. He then signed with the Christian music record label. Red Hill Records, on which he recorded his first album at the age of 15, which was unsuccessful.
Two years later he moved to Los Angeles where he first worked for Island Records, recording another album that had no repercussion, to later sign a contract, in 2004, with the label Columbia Records. Despite his burgeoning music career and without any album in progress, Perry he started recording on his own. Completed eighty percent of a new album, but Columbia decided not to finish it and left it out of the record company. During the following years he changed his style and his stage name, becoming known as Katy Perry (taking his mother’s maiden name).
He then continued to work with various artists, until their songs finally captured the attention of the CEO of Virgin records, Jason flom, then head of Capitol Music Group, who hired her to Capitol Records in early 2007.
She became famous thanks to her theme ‘Ur so gay ‘, which was promoting itself while its first album was being released; Y Madonna he quoted her in an interview about his favorite songs. From there his rise was meteoric; in 2008 he recorded his second single, “I Kissed a Girl”And in that same year, his first debut album was released”One of the boys“. During 2009 and 2010, Perry was working on his second studio album, entitled “Teenage dream“.
Perry has become a music star, creating a particular style halfway between rockabilly, pop and country music. In his short career he has also recorded songs for more than thirty feature films and television series episodes, and recently he has lent his voice for the character of Smurfette in the film based on the popular cartoon characters, “The Smurfs“(2011).
In his personal life, Katy she married the English actor Russell Brand at the end of 2009, in a ceremony that took place in India.