Katheryn Elizabeth Katy Hudson (born October 25, 1984), better known
by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and
actress. She had limited exposure to secular music during her childhood
and pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager, releasing her debut
studio album, Katy Hudson, in 2001. She moved to Los Angeles the
following year to venture into secular music. She recorded a
collaborative album with the Matrix, which was released in 2009. She
also recorded an album with Glen Ballard that was not released due to
contractual complications.In April 2007, Perry signed a deal with
Capitol Records. She rose to fame in 2008 with the release of the single
"I Kissed a Girl" from her second album, One of the Boys. Perry's third
album, Teenage Dream (2010), was preceded by the US Billboard Hot 100
chart-topping singles "California Gurls" and "Teenage Dream", and later
produced the number-one singles "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday
Night (T.G.I.F.)". The album became the first by a female artist to
produce five number-one Billboard Hot 100 songs, and the second overall
after Michael Jackson's Bad (1987). In March 2012, she reissued the
album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, which produced the
number-one single "Part of Me". Her fourth album, Prism, was released in
2013 and included the number-one singles "Roar" and "Dark Horse".
