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She performed the tracks in front of her parents, who let her take vocal lessons like Angela was doing at the time. She began training at age nine and was incorporated into her parents’ ministry, singing in church from ages nine to 17. At 13, Perry was given her first guitar for her birthday, and publicly performed songs she wrote.

Perry subsequently was placed at number four on the 2019 “Highest-Paid Women in Music” listings, with $57.5 million. Later that year, with earnings of $530 million throughout the 2010s, the magazine also ranked her as the ninth-highest-earning musician of the decade. Betty Clarke of The Guardian commented that her “powerful voice is hard-edged” while Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone described Perry’s vocals on Teenage Dream as “processed staccato blips”. Darren Harvey of musicOMH compared Perry’s vocals on One of the Boys to Alanis Morissette’s, both possessing a “perky voice shifting octaves mid-syllable”.

In September 2010, Perry was scheduled to appear on the 41st-season premiere of Sesame Street. After her scene was uploaded to YouTube, viewers criticized Perry’s exposed cleavage. Four days before the scheduled airing, Sesame Workshop announced that the segment would not air on television, but would still be available to watch online. Perry subsequently mocked the controversy on Saturday Night Live, where she was a musical guest and wore an Elmo-themed shirt showing large amounts of cleavage during one skit. In 2004, she signed to Ballard’s label, Java Records, which was then affiliated with The Island Def Jam Music Group.

On February 10, 2017, Perry released the album’s lead single “Chained to the Rhythm” featuring Skip Marley. The track was also streamed over three million times on Spotify within 24 hours, breaking the music streaming service’s record at the time for the highest first-day streaming for a single track by a female artist. The album’s second single, “Bon Appétit” with Migos, was released that April. Its third single, “Swish Swish”, featured Nicki Minaj and followed the next month. They respectively peaked at numbers 59 and 46 in the United States, and made the top 15 in Canada.

Four months later, she released a new single, “Electric”, a collaboration with Pokémon for their 25th anniversary. Perry worked with songwriters including Desmond Child, Greg Wells, Butch Walker, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, the Matrix, Kara DioGuardi, Max Martin, and Dr. Luke. In addition, after Devine suggested that songwriting team the Matrix become a “real group”, she recorded an album, The Matrix, with them.

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In tax shield 2014, she publicly supported Marianne Williamson in her campaign for California’s 33rd congressional district by attending a political press event. She endorsed Kamala Harris in the United States Senate election in California, and organized a fundraiser for Harris at her home in Los Angeles in November 2016. Perry also publicly endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president in 2016. She performed alongside Elton John at a fundraising concert for Clinton in New York City in March 2016. Perry also spoke and performed at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in support of Clinton.

Perry began work on a solo record due for release in March 2005, but the record was shelved after Java was dropped. Ballard then introduced her to Tim Devine, an A&R executive at Columbia Records, and she was signed as a solo artist. By November 2006, Perry had finished writing and recording material for her Columbia debut titled Fingerprints which was planned for release in 2007. Some of the material from Fingerprints that did not make it on One of the Boys was given to other artists, such as “I Do Not Hook Up” and “Long Shot” to Kelly Clarkson and “Rock God” to Selena Gomez & the Scene. Being brought up in a gardening family, Kelly has many happy memories marked by flowers, and her love for lifelong learning, teaching, and floral design shines through in her role developing the content for and instructing the classes and workshops at Team Flower.

After finishing the 2008 Warped Tour, Perry hosted the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2008, where she won the award for Best New Act. At the 2009 Brit Awards, she also won the award for International Female Solo Artist. Perry embarked on her first headlining world tour, the Hello Katy Tour, from January to November 2009 to support One of the Boys.

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The next month, Josh Kloss, Perry’s co-star in the “Teenage Dream” music video, accused her of sexual misconduct. In an Instagram post, Kloss alleged that, during a party at a skating rink, Perry pulled on his sweatpants and underwear, exposing his penis to her male friends. He also said her management prevented him from speaking about his time with the singer. However, Johnny Wujek, the creative director of said party defended Perry, saying that she “would never do something like that” and accused Kloss of having an “ongoing obsession” with her. After initially refraining from responding to this, believing it would have detracted from the Me Too movement, Perry has also denied Kloss’s claims. At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, Perry performed “Here You Come Again”, alongside Dolly Parton and Kacey Musgraves, as part of a tribute to Parton.

Her shoes are available on her website, Katy Perry Collections, and at retailers such as Dillard’s and Walmart. Perry was signed for a $25-million salary to serve as a judge on ABC’s revival of American Idol, which premiered in March 2018. Perry began a relationship with Orlando Bloom in early 2016, and the couple got engaged on February 14, 2019. Holding a serious passion for both entrepreneurship and community, Jesse has become a leader in small-business education in the floral industry.

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Although Perry’s music incorporates pop, rock, and disco, Katy Hudson contains gospel. Her subsequent releases, One of the Boys and Teenage Dream, involve themes of sex and love. One of the Boys is a pop rock record, while Teenage Dream features disco influences.

Teenage Dream would go on to win the 2011 Juno Award for International Album of the Year. It became the album’s third consecutive number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 8, 2010. Perry was declared the Top Global Female Recording Artist of 2013 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . She also became the first artist to have three songs receive Diamond certifications from the RIAA with “Dark Horse”, “Firework”, and “Roar”.

She married Russell Brand on October 23, 2010, in a traditional Hindu ceremony near the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan, India. On December 30, 2011, Brand announced that they were divorcing after 14 months of marriage. She was initially distraught over their divorce and said that she contemplated suicide. After the marriage ended in 2012, Perry began a relationship with singer John Mayer that August. Kelly is involved in all aspects of digitization work, which includes the evaluation of materials, capturing the images via scanners and/or digital photography, and following up in post-production .

• By November 2006, Perry had finished writing and recording material for her Columbia debut titled Fingerprints which was planned for release in 2007.
• In 2010, she recalled that “Thinking of You” was one of the first songs she wrote after moving to Los Angeles.
• After finishing the 2008 Warped Tour, Perry hosted the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2008, where she won the award for Best New Act.
• Katy Hudson received mixed reviews from critics and was commercially unsuccessful, selling an estimated 200 copies before the label ceased operations in December.

All three of them and “E.T.”, “California Gurls”, and “Hot n Cold” have each sold over 5 million digital copies. With more than 18 million albums and 125 million singles sold globally, Perry is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Billboard also named her the 15th most successful dance club artist of all time. In June 2015, her music video for “Dark Horse” became the first video by a female artist to reach 1 billion views on Vevo. The following month, her music video for “Roar” reached 1 billion views on Vevo, making her the first artist to have multiple videos with 1 billion views. In September 2021, Variety paid tribute to and honored Perry on their “Power of Women” issue, where she discussed her career, motherhood, and philanthropy.

“E.T.” featuring Kanye West was released as the fourth single from Teenage Dream on February 16, 2011. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five non-consecutive weeks, making Teenage Dream the ninth album in history to produce four number one singles on the chart. “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” followed as the fifth single in June, and Perry became the first female artist to achieve five number-one Billboard Hot 100 songs from one album when the single topped that chart on August 17, and the second artist after Michael Jackson with his album Bad. For this record, she received an honorary American Music Award in November 2011 and a 2013 Guinness World Record. On September 7, she set a new record by becoming the first artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100.

Four days later, Perry performed the songs from the album at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles. “Dark Horse” with Juicy J was released as the album’s third single in December, and became her ninth U.S. number-one single the following month. In 2014, “Birthday” and “This Is How We Do” respectively followed as the album’s fourth and fifth singles, and reached the top 25 on the Hot 100.

She also assists with the creation of text and video tutorials under the direction of the Instructional Design Librarian, and helps as needed to provide support to both the Web Services Librarian and the Library Systems Manager. The last time Perri was linked to someone was in 2018, when he was seen out and about with Love Island contestant Amber Davies. However, during an interview in 2019, Perri revealed that he had spent Valentine’s Day alone at home with his two cats and beloved dog Barry, so the pair seemed to have cooled things off.

Perry identifies as a feminist, and appeared in April 2013 in a video clip for the “Chime for Change” campaign that aimed to spread female empowerment. She has also said that America’s lack of free health care drove her “absolutely crazy”. Following the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016, Perry and nearly 200 other artists and executives in music signed an open letter organized by Billboard addressed to United States Congress demanding increased gun control in the United States.

Perry lists Gwen Stefani, Shirley Manson, Chloë Sevigny, Daphne Guinness, Natalie Portman, and the fictional character Lolita as her style icons. In 2022, Elle dubbed her as “the kitsch-loving pop star renowned for her uniquely experimental style”, while Vogue described her style as “synonymous with outrageous, eye-catching ensembles that lean towards the theatrical”. On January 20, 2021, Perry performed “Firework” at the Celebrating America concert during the inauguration of Joe Biden.