New Artist Research

Katy Perry-Artist Research

Katy Perry born on 25th of October 1984 in Santa Barbara, California is an American musician. She was born with the name Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson She then changed it to Katy Perry. Katy Perry’s genre of music varies from Pop, pop-rock,dance-pop, electro-pop,euro-pop and rock.

In 2001 Katy release her first ever album called “Katy Hudson”. The album was self titled Gospel album. In 2007 Katy was signed to Capitol Music. She then began recording tracks for her official Debut album “One of the Boys”. On November 2007 her first music video ‘Ur So Gay’ was released this was the song that introduced her to the music market. On March 10, 2008 she made an appearance as herself on a television series “Wildfire”. Whilst all the buzz for the new artist was building she went on to promote her album. Then on may 06, 2008 the album’s official lead single ‘I Kissed a Girl’ was released. The song peeked at number one for seven weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The song became a worldwide hit topping charts in 30 countries.

Her album “One of the Boys” was released on June 17, 2008. This album has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Katy then released her second single ‘Hot n Cold’ which became her second top three single in various countries around the world. In January 2009 Katy released her first headlining tour, the Hello Katy Tour.

Katy’s ‘I Kissed a Girl’ earned her a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2009 Grammy Awards. She was also nominated in 5 different categories at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards including best new artist and best female video.

In 2009 Katy was featured on two singles they were ‘Starstrukk’ with 30H!3 and ‘If We Ever Meet Again’ with Timbaland.

In 2010 Katy appeared as a guest judge on the seventh series The X Factor. Later on that year on October 17th Katy Perry appeared again on the show but this time she performed her most recent single ‘Firework’.

Perry’s second mainstream studio album was titled “Teenage Dream” was released in August 2010. The first single form the album was titled ‘California Gurls’. The single came number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The albums second single was ‘Teenage Dream’ ws released in July 2010 and the third single was ‘Firework’.

Discography

• Katy Hudson (2001)
• One of the Boys (2008)
• Teenage Dream (2010)