Katy Perry is known for her crazy fashion and catchy songs. Her life started on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. Perry wasn’t her original last name, it was Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. Katy’s singing career started by taking singing lessons around the age 9, by 13 she had learned to play the guitar. She soon became interested in pursuing a career in music. She began her career by singing gospel music in church.
Katy Perry is liked by millions of people because they can relate to her songs and love her crazy fashion but she wasn’t always liked by millions of fans. Her first album, Katy Hudson, wasn’t successful so she started to create different songs types, which were not gospel. She also moved to Los Angeles hoping this would help her to become noticed by the right music people. Right away she didn’t
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Katy Perry has won five American Music Awards and 14 People’s Choice Awards. In September 2012, she was the Woman of the Year. Between May of 2010 to September of 2011 she held a record total of 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of Billboard Hot 100. Teenage Dream became the first album by female artist to produce five number one Billboard Hot 100 singles, and the second album overall after Michael Jackson’s Bad. She has had nine number one singles on Hot 100. In June 2015, her music video for “Dark House” became the first video by female artist to reach 1 billion views on Vevo, later that year she had another song reach another 1 billion views. Katy Perry was declared the Top Global Female Recording Artist of 2013, she is the third best-selling digital singles artist in U.S., with 83.5 million digital singles. In all, Perry has 47 different awards, varying from great music videos, albums, TV guest, favorite pop artist and for best looks! She’s also been nominated for 11 Grammy