After signing on with Capitol Music Group in 2007, 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 attention but did not chart. She rose to fame with her second single "I Kissed a Girl" in 2008, which topped international charts. Perry's first mainstream album One of the Boys followed later that year and was eventually announced to be the thirty-third best selling album of 2008 worldwide.[1] It was accredited platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America; "I Kissed a Girl" and her second single "Hot N Cold" both received multi-platinum certifications. Perry was ranked the 97th Artist of the 2000–10 decade by Billboard.[2] She became known for wearing unconventional style of dress, often combining colors and vintage fashion. Her next album, Teenage Dream, is scheduled to be released in August 2010.
Perry had a long relationship with Travis McCoy; she is currently engaged to Russell Brand.
EARLY LIFW AND BEGINING HER CARRIER
Katy Perry was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, California.[3] The second child of two pastors,[4] she has an older sister and younger brother.[5] Her Evangelical mother, Mary Hudson (née Perry), grew up in Southern California and had "a tempestuous first marriage in Zimbabwe."[5] Her father Keith Hudson was a West Coast scenester in the 1960s.[5] Perry's maternal aunt and uncle were screenwriter Eleanor Perry and director Frank Perry,[6] through whom she is also related to Charles M. Schwab, the founder of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.[7] Perry is of Portuguese[8] and German[9] ancestry on her mother's side.
Perry was incorporated to her parents' ministry;[4] she sang in their church from ages 9 to 17.[3][10] She grew up listening to gospel music[11] and was not allowed to listen to what her mother called secular music.[10][12] Perry attended Christian schools and camps.[4] As a child, Perry learned how to dance in a recreation building in Santa Barbara. She was taught by seasoned dancers and began with swing, Lindy Hop, and jitterbug.[13] She took her GED after her freshman year of high school and decided to leave school to pursue a career in music.[14] Perry initially started singing "because I was at that point in my childhood where I was copycatting my sister and everything she did."[14] Her sister practiced with cassette tapes, and Perry took the tapes herself when her sister was not around. She rehearsed the songs and performed it to her parents, who suggested she should take voice lessons. She grabbed the opportunity and began taking lessons at age nine to 16. She enrolled in at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and studied Italian opera for a short time. And at the age of 15, Perry's singing in church attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to polish her writing skills.[15] In Nashville, Perry started recording demos and was taught by country music veterans on how to craft songs and play guitar.[10][12] Perry signed to the Christian music label Red Hill, under which she recorded her first album at the age of 15.[16] Performing as Katy Hudson, she released the self-titled Gospel-rock album in 2001.[5][15] The album was unsuccessful, however, after the label ceased operations at the end of 2001.[16] She later changed her surname to Perry, her mother's maiden name, because "Katy Hudson" was too close to film actress Kate Hudson.[15][17] At the age of 17, Perry left her home for Los Angeles where she worked with Glen Ballard on an album for record label Island.[18] The album was due for release in 2005,[3][15][16] but Billboard reported it also went nowhere.[16] Perry was dropped by Island Def Jam Music Group.[5] Some of Perry and Ballard's collaborations included "Box", "Diamonds" and "Long Shot", were posted on her official MySpace page. "Simple", one of the songs she recorded with Ballard, was released on the soundtrack to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.[19]
Perry signed to Columbia Records in 2004. However, the label was not amenable with her vision, not putting her in the "driver's seat".[16] Instead, one of Columbia's ideas was to pair Perry with the record production team The Matrix, who was working on an album, to serve as its female vocalist. Although the album was later shelved,[20] she caught the attention of the music press: Her burgeoning music career led to her being named "The Next Big Thing" in October 2004 by Blender magazine.[3][16] With no album project ongoing, Perry began recording her own. Eighty percent completed, however, Columbia decided not to finish it and dropped her off the label.[16]
While waiting to find another label, she worked in an independent A&R company called Taxi Music. In 2006, Perry was featured in the tail-end of the video to P.O.D.'s single "Goodbye for Now".[21] She made a cameo appearance in Carbon Leaf's video, "Learn to Fly", and in Gym Class Heroes' video, "Cupid's Chokehold", playing the eventual love interest of lead singer Travis McCoy. Her songs eventually captured the attention of Virgin Records CEO Jason Flom, then head of Capitol Music Group, who signed her to Capitol Music in early 2007
STYLE AND IMAGE
I do love her fashion style she so creative and stylist,Perry is known for her unconventional style of dress.[13] It is often humorous, bright in color, and reminiscent of different decades, and she frequently uses fruit-shaped accessories, mainly watermelon, as part of her outfits.[53] Having learned dancing at an early age, she fancied about having her own style. Perry's transformation into an artist began with fashion, inspired by American film actress Dominique Swain's portrayal in 1997 film adaptation of the novel Lolita.[15] She defines her fashion style as "a bit of a concoction of different things".[13] Johnny Wujek, Perry's stylist, described her style, upon meeting her for the first time, as "very colorful and vintage".[58] Her fashion has caught the attention of designers, who were giving her nearly as much attention as fans of her music.[4][53]
In June 2008, a publicity photo that showed Perry posing with a switchblade was criticized.[59] The picture was defended as only an effort to give Perry a "sexy, harder edge".[59] The criticism leveled at her was mocked by Perry who subsequently posed with a spoon instead
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