Biography Katy Perry

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Then, in the year, her debut album “Katy Hudson” did not get into the charts due to low sales, but her next record “One of the Boys”, recorded in the pop rock genre, was in the top Billboard, she was born on October 25 and became a second child in the family of Marus and Mary Hudson. Father and mother of future celebrities were pastors in the Church of Pentecostals.

Both had a very violent youth: Mary once met with Jimmy Hendricks, and Marus had a chance to divide the acid trip from Timothy Liri. Katy Perry's family on the right: parents, sister and brother subsequently, they both have settled down and hit religion. For about seven years, the couple worked in America, and in every new town the church was equipped until she finally settled in Santa Barbar, California.

Three children were born there: Katie, her older sister Angela and younger brother David. Children's photos of Katy Perry as Katie recalled, the family had been financial difficulties all the time. There were times when they had to live on benefits, and sometimes parents fed children with food donated by parishioners. Pastor's daughter, parents tried to raise children in a religious manner.

Sometimes it reached the point of absurdity - they were forbidden to eat Lucky Charms marshmallows, because if you pronounce this name aloud, it looks like Lucifer Lucifer. At least it seemed to Mary. The real name of Katti Perry-Hudson Katie reluctantly attended the Christian school, went to the Christian summer camp every summer, and on weekends sang Gospel in the church choir, which did not prevent her from adhering the strictly forbidden in their house the work of Nirvana, Queen, Heart, Incubus, songs Alanis Maurissetta And Joni Mitchell.

The disks of her favorite performers, the girl secretly listened to friends with her friends. Outside the walls of her home, she was a real disorder: communicated with hooligans, rode on a skateboard, rollers and a surf. In a word, in the family, the girl received the status of a “black raven”. Even when in childhood it seemed to me that I was a zealous Christian, they saw me real.

I think I became full -fledged only when I left my father’s house. I did not know that there was another world outside of all this church nonsense - it was like the fall of Alice in a rabbit hole. ” The beginning of his career interest in music by Katie woke up thanks to his older sister. She listened to cassettes with church music from her collection and sang along. On the fly, Katie received an acoustic guitar as a gift from her parents and soon wrote her own her own song.

Katy Perry performs her very first song by the age of years, the girl realized that she wanted to connect life with music - she received a certificate of maturity and entered the Dos Pueblos high school with a musical profile. Perry was then a short course of academic vocals at the Santa Barbara Musical Academy. Katy Perry and 4 more stars who do not know how to dance the musicians took her under their wing and invited her to their own recording studio, where the first Demo Caty Perry were recorded.

They helped her perfectly master the guitar and learn to write excellent songs. And in March, Katie released her debut album “Katy Hudson”, recorded in the genre of the Christian priest. At the age of 17, Katie left her father’s house and moved to La as a whole album was met by critics, but due to the specific sales genre were low, and the record remained uninhabited. But she was invited to warm up to the tour of Phil Joel from the Christian rock band Newsboys.

Traveling around the country during the year, Katie met the producer Glen Ballard. He moved the summer singer to Los Angeles, where she switched from church music to “secular” and began work on new songs. The cover of the first album of Katy Perry in the year the girl took the pseudonym Katy Perry, abandoning her father's surname in favor of her mother’s maiden. Soon she managed to conclude a contract with Columbia Records and begin to record a full -fledged album.

Three years later, when the album was almost ready for the exit, the label suddenly broke the contract. The singer did not have any special hopes for the composition - she was recorded for the soul. Some critics saw in the text of the song the propaganda of homophobia and gay injury. Others, on the contrary, saw in the text the propaganda of non -traditional relations. Even Katie's parents criticized the song: “We hate this music.

It promotes homosexuality, and according to the Bible, this is a terrible sin. ” Katy Perry is better to abandon the grown stereotypes about gays! But most listeners still understood the irony hidden in the text. Madonna drew attention to the Ur So Gay, which stated that this song was among her loved ones at that time. Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl In June, the light saw the first album of Katy Perry under her new pseudonym - “One of the Boys”, which ultimately got into the 9th line in the Billboard chart and received the status of platinum in the singer’s homeland.

Critics saw in the compositions a huge influence of Katie so beloved Alanis Morisett.The famous photo from the cover of “One of the Boys” in the spring of the year Perry released a joint with Snup Dogg single “California gurls”, which exploded the Internet: 8 million downloads in iTunes in the first month. Another single "E. Katy Perry ft. Snap DOGG-California Gurls in July released the single “Teenage Dream” with its prepaid album, and the Lid-Single of the same name appeared in the first place of the charts of Canada, the USA and the UK.

Immediately the artist went on a world tour in support of the album, releasing FireWork for the promotion. Katy Perry's clips are always colorful and bewitching, and if you return to Katy Perry’s musical career, then in March the prestigious Billboard Hot debuted the Part of Me single. He became the seventh single number one for the entire work of the singer. At the same time, the composition was headed by UK Singles Chart.

By the way, the song also fell into the reissue of Perry's album “Teenage Dream”. Further career was working on the fourth solo album of Prism Perry in November. In an interview with Vogue magazine, she stated that the new records would become “dark, complete disappointments”-she reflected personal experiences in music due to a break with her husband Read more about this below, in the “Personal Life” section.

Almost at the last moment, she rethought the concept - new songs inspired self -improvement, overcoming difficulties and moving forward. The PRISM album opened a new page in the singer’s life in August, she presented the Lid Single “Roar”.

As always, the audience was waiting for a very qualitatively shot video, but the lyrics of the song were mercilessly criticized for "predictability and abundance of cliches." Subsequently, the American stand-up comedian and singer Boer Binem advised his listeners to “kill himself if you see the meaning in Katy Perry's songs,” referring just the song “Roar”. Katy Perry - Roar album "Prism" was released in October of the year and was ambiguous.

As in the case of Lid Single, the singer was accused of stamping and abundance of the already beaten moves used by her in the previous album. Despite criticism, Prism received 4 nominations for Grammy. By that time, Katy Perry became one of the most significant pop artists from America by that time. This was confirmed by her performance in the show at the final of the Super Bowl of the National Football League Championship.

Among other applicants were Rihanna and the Coldplay group. Her performance was watched, 5 million Americans - it became the most viewed in the history of Super Bowl. In July, the Light saw the fifth studio album of Katy Perry “Witness” “Witness”, who debuted in the Billboard chart from the first line. She spoke with her at the Grammy ceremony, surprising the audience with a performance: usually refraining from political judgments, this time Katie clearly could not restrain emotions - Donald Trump and Teresa May appeared on the stage.

In the summer of the same year, the singer worked with the recognized King of Electronic music by Kelvin Harris over the song “Feels”, then sang a duet from Nick Minaj the composition “Swish Swish”. At the end of the year, Katie reported that she would enter the jury of the American Idol show. At first, the joy of engagement and Orlando Bloom smeared a lawsuit on charges of plagiarism.

The jury ordered the singer to pay thousands of dollars to a colleague. The fashion model Josh Kloss, who starred in Katie’s video “Teenage Dream” in the year, accused the woman of sexual harassment. According to Josh, at one of the parties, Perry with deceiving pulled his pants and panties from him, exposing his male dignity in front of the guests. After that, representatives of the singer ordered Kloss to remain silent about what had happened.

In addition, he complained that for shooting in the video he was paid dollars, while Katie earned millions on it. Katy Perry and Josh Kloss in the Teenage Dream clip in November got a video from Mumbai Airport, after which Katie was accused of disrespecting the airport security rules. The video shows how the singer ignores the request of an airport employee to show a passport.

Unfortunately, the scene with her participation was cut out during the final installation. The singer appeared in the 15th episode of the 6th season of the popular series "How I met your mother." She played a cute and naive girl with whom Barney Nil Patrick Harris suddenly spreaded. Katy Perry in the series “How I met your mother” in addition, she had a Camo in the comedy “Exemplary Martian 2”, and Smurfetta from the cartoon “Smurficiks” says her voice.

In the summer of the same year, sales of the intra -game catalog "Katy Perry Sweet Joy" started. After parting, she began an affair with the Canadian musician Matthew Tessen, lasting up to a year. Katy Perry without makeup was then a short intrigue with actor Johnny Lewis and an affair with the vocalist “Gym Class Heroes” Travis McCave, whom she met when she starred in their video.

In the year, the couple broke up. Soon they were seen together at the Paris Fashion Week. In December of the same year, Russell made an official statement that Katy Perry is his girlfriend.In the photo: Katy Perry and Russell Brand three weeks after that the brand invited her to rest in India and made her a marriage proposal at the foot of the mountain on New Year's Eve. The wedding of lovers also took place in India - on October 23, they exchanged rings and oaths in the Ratanambor reserve.

Katie and Russell got married in India six months later, Katie sued the Australian Yellow NW newspaper, whose journalist convicted the singer in treason to her husband. Rumor crawled that Rawl, who declared on his Twitter about the unprecedented fortress of their relationship, crawled. The report on Katy Perry’s wedding in November in the press appeared reports about the discord in the family of Katie and Russell.

Representatives of the stars denied the information, but a month later they recognized - yes, their relationship cracked. The couple spent the Christmas of the year separately from each other. Katie flew to the vacation in Hawaii, and Russell appeared in public without a wedding ring. As it turned out later, the reason was Russell's jealousy - seeing the photographs of the paparazzi, where Katie was captured by the handle with guitarist Robert Eikrad, he boiled with rage.

The brand himself claimed that he gave up too early in the struggle for marriage and considers this the main mistake in his life.