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Katy Perry

American singer

Also known as: Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson

Written by John M. Cunningham

Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated: Jan 4, 2025 • Article History

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Original name:: Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson

Born:: October 25, 1984, Santa Barbara, California, U.S. (age 40)

Notable Works:: “I Kissed a Girl”; “One of the Boys”; “Prism”; “Smile”; “Teenage Dream”; “Witness”

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Ex-‘American Idol’ Contestant Disses Katy Perry’s Song “OK”: “This Can’t Be the Same Person Who Eliminated Me” • Dec. 31, 2024, 3:34 AM ET (The Hollywood Reporter)

Katy Perry (born October 25, 1984, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.) is an American pop singer who gained fame for a string of anthemic and often sexually suggestive hit songs, as well as for a playfully cartoonish sense of style. Katy Hudson was raised in southern California, the middle child of two itinerant born-again Christian ministers. Nonreligious music was forbidden in the Hudson household, and she grew up singing church hymns and gospel tunes. As a teenager, she learned to play the guitar and sought a musical career in Nashville with a Christian record label, but her debut album, the gospel-influenced ...(100 of 607 words)

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