Katy Perry, born Katherine Hudson, was born in Santa Barabara, California, in 1984. As a child, Katy sang in the gospel choir in her church and grew up listening to gospel music. Her parents were pastors so Katy went to Catholic schools and camps. She reached a point in her childhood when she was copying everything her older sister was doing, so Katy always borrow her sister's tapes to sing along to. She would perform for her parents who decided to enroll her for vocal training. She took these lessons from the age of nine until she was sixteen. She later attended the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.
When Katy decided to pursue her singing career, she changed her name to Perry, which is her mother's maiden name, as Katy Hudson would be too close to the name of the actress Kate Hudson.She was originally signed to the record label, Def Jam, but was later dropped after her first album with that label was not successful. She was then signed to Columbia Records in 2004, but she wasn't too happy with this label as she lost a lot of control over her music. After a while of not getting anywhere with this label, even though she was named as the 'Next Big Thing' , Katy decided to start recording on her own.
Katy was dropped by Columbia Records in 2006, but she was highly recommended to Virgin Records. With this label, she began recording her first mainstream album titled 'One of the Boys'. Katy wanted to establish her image so she released singles titled 'I Kissed a Girl' and 'Hot and Cold'. These songs caused plenty of controversy as they were suggestive and offended some listeners of the songs. However, this didn't bother Katy as she was trying to set a quirky, unique image as a pop star. She had a bright, strange style of clothes but this really works for her as a performer because she really stands out.
Katy has been nominated for and won plenty of awards during her music career. Her single 'I Kissed a Girl' earned her a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal at the 2009 Grammy Awards. She won Best Breakthrough Artist in 2009 on the MTV Australia Awards. Her songs, 'Hot and Cold', 'Waking Up in Vegas', 'California Gurls' and 'Teenage Dream' have all won most performed songs. She has also won Best Act and 'California Gurls' won Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Also popular with the younger generation, Katy won Favourite Female Singer, and 'California Gurls' won Fave Song at the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards.
Katy met Russell Brand on set of his movie 'Get Him to the Greek' in 2008. They became a couple about a year later and since then have got married in India on October 23, 2010.
My next point on the map is in Ontario, Canada, the home of teenage sensation, Justin Bieber. The connection between Katy Perry and Justin is that Katy was signed with Justin's current record label Def Jam Recordings.
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