Katy Perry, born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, has been an important part of the music industry for years. Among her unbridled talent, unbelievably popular hits and controversial moments, Perry is a name that music lovers will never forget.
Watch the gossip magazines explode when her whisper and Taylor Swift‘s hurtle hit the headlines! Controversy aside, the Californian Gurls singer has certainly made a name for himself, in a positive or negative sense.
Katy Perry’s humble beginnings
Perry started playing music at the age of nine. Her older sister, Angela, was a singer and young Perry noticed that she was practicing on her sister’s cassette tapes so she could be like her. After showing her skills to her parents, they included her in vocal lessons so that she could follow in Angela’s footsteps.
Perry’s first performance was singing for the ministry of her parents. She continued to do this until she was 17 years old. While that explains her beautiful voice, what about her other musical talents? The songbird was gifted with a guitar when she was 13 and even took a handful of dance lessons during her training years.
Perry’s problematic path to success
Her singing caught the attention of rock artists Steve Thomas and Jennifer Knapp who brought her there to improve her writing skills. In Nashville, she started recording demos and learned how to write songs and play guitar. pic.twitter.com/2ETW4VKSFA
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The voice of Rise singers was finally noticed by rock artists Jennifer Knapp and Steve Thomas. The couple Perry comes to Nashville, Tennessee to improve her skills as a musician. Perry began to cultivate her career in Nashville. She recorded demos and highlighted her day in and day out. She eventually signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut album, Katy Hudson. While the gospel album went well with critics, it did not sell as it had hoped.
As soon as Red Hill Records was refueled, she had to find a new place to call home. She crossed paths with Glen Ballard, for whom she started writing songs. It was this raid that pushed Perry from gospel music to secular music that was banned during her youth. The singer finally signed with the Ballard label but once the label was dropped, her current projects were also.
Despite things going south, Ballard recognized her talent and was soon noticed at Columbia Records, where she was signed as a solo artist. Columbia dropped Katy Perry in 2006 before she even had a chance to finish her record! She just couldn’t take a break.
Perry continued to make a few projects that were recorded in films and collaborated with other artists, but her big day as a soloist would not come.
Katy Perry finally gets her big break
Things turned around for Perry when she was registered with Capitol Records in 2007. The label knew Perry had what it took to make a star and put her on the golden path to success.
They made a top or two to respond to her current material in preparation for her real debut. With which numbers did they help her? None other than the unforgettable I Kissed a Girl and Hot n Cold on the One of the Boys EP.
Katy Perry ‘Kissed a girl’
I Kissed a Girl was released on April 28, 2008 as the leading single from her debut album with Capitol Records. When the song was first played by WRVW, the station received phone calls from listeners who loved the song! The track quickly climbed the American Billboard Hot 100 and was number 1 for no less than seven weeks. It spent 23 weeks on the card total before it was declined.
The job moved the pot in the light of the LGBT theme. Religious groups of course criticized the album for its homosexual nature and LGBT groups found that Katy Perry used bi-curiosity to generate popularity for the record. But every advertisement is a good advertisement! When the album finally fell, it peaked at number 9 on the Billboard 200 and sold around seven million copies worldwide. It was a far cry from her first debut!
The other predetermined hit single, Hot n Cold, followed the release of the album and received the attention the label knew. It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Several other songs from the album could also be placed in the charts – a testament to how great the album was! It was at this point that Perry became a successful solo artist and her career really got off the ground. So, the next time you listen to a Perry song, remember the trials and tribulations that she went through to become a great artist who knows and loves the world!
