Katy Perry history

Katy Perry was born Katheryn Elizabeth the name of Hudson, in the city of Santa Barbara California. It is the second daughter of two evangelical pastors; He has an older sister and a younger brother. His mother Mary Hudson, who is evangelical (born Mary Perry) grew up in Southern California, and had a "tempestuous first marriage in Zimbabwe. The father of Perry, Keith Hudson, was an actor on the West Coast of the 1960s. Perry is the mother niece Eleanor Perry, which was a writer, and Frank Perry, who was film director, film producer and screenwriter. surname Perry is of Portuguese origin and German being the family descent on the mother .

Perry joined the ministry of their parents; singing in church at the age of 9 to 17 years. She grew up listening to only gospel music and was not allowed to hear what his mother called music profane. Perry attended Christian schools and camps,  as a child, Perry learned how to dance in a recreation building in Santa Barbara, learned to dance by several dancers and started dancing with Swing , Lindy Hop  and Jitterbug .  After obtaining his cretificado as a student  in his first year in high school, he decided to leave school to start a musical career.  Perry initially started singing: "Because I was at that time in my childhood when I was copying my sister and everything she did" .  her sister practiced with cassette tapes , and Perry took those same tapes when her sister was not. He rehearsed the songs with her ​​parents, who suggested that it should take singing lessons, she seized the opportunity and began taking lessons from the age of nine to 16. She enrolled at the  Music Academy of the West  in Santa Barbara and studied Italian opera  for a short time.

Perry signed a contract with Columbia Records in 2004A age of 15, Perry was singing in the church and attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to polish her ​​writing skills. In Nashville, Perry started recording demos and was taught by veterans of country music on creating songs and play guitarra.Perry signed with the record label of Christian music Red Hill  Records, where he recorded his first album at the años.Actuando age of 15 under the name Katy Hudson released its self - titled album genre evangelist in 2001. the album was not as successful, after the record stop working at the end of 2001 .  later, he changed the name by Perry, the name was the mother when she was single, because "Katy Hudson" was too close to the actress Kate Hudson .  at the age of 17, Perry left her home in Los Angeles , where she worked with Glen Ballard on an album for Island Records label  the album was released in 2005.  But, Billboard  reported it also went nowhere. Then Perry was fired by Island Def Jam Music Group .  Some songs of Perry in collaboration with Glen Ballard included "Box", "Diamonds" and "Long Shot", were posted on his official My Space page . "Simple", one of the songs she recorded with Ballard, was released on the soundtrack of the film The Sisterhood  of the Traveling Pants  2005