Portrait · Danilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 Katy Perry Singer, songwriter and television judge
Born 1984
Katy Perry is an American singer and songwriter whose career combines theatrical pop, filmed performance and television. Born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, she developed her songwriting with Nashville gospel musicians as a teenager and released Katy Hudson. She moved to Los Angeles at seventeen, worked with Glen Ballard, and endured label setbacks and financial difficulties before Capitol supported her pop direction. One of the Boys and I Kissed a Girl brought the breakthrough. Teenage Dream expanded that success into a vivid sequence of songs and videos, followed by Prism, Witness, Smile and 143. Her stage career includes the Play residency at Resorts World Las Vegas. Her concert productions also became screen works, from the documentary Part of Me to the Prismatic World Tour and the Lifetimes Tour film. Beyond her own music, she voiced Smurfette in Sony’s Smurfs films and spent seven seasons on the American Idol judging panel with Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, concluding that run in 2024. Her honors include a BRIT Award, MTV’s Video Vanguard Award and UNICEF’s Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award; the Recording Academy lists Grammy nominations rather than wins. She has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2013. Her checked recent record includes the release of Watch It Burn in June 2026, the Paris concert film’s Japanese screenings and publicly discussed personal changes. Her older interviews provide specific listening choices, musical favorites and tastes, retained with their original dates and contexts.
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Connected people 01 BRIT Awards
The BRITs 2009: winners Attribution.
02 Apple Music / Capitol Records
Witness (Deluxe): release record Attribution.
03 Apple Music / Capitol Records
Prism (Deluxe Version): release record Attribution.
04 Apple Music / Capitol Records
Teenage Dream: release record Attribution.
05 Apple Music / Capitol Records
One of the Boys: release record Attribution.
06 UNICEF
Katy Perry: Goodwill Ambassador Attribution.
07 Recording Academy
Awards Attribution.
08 Apple Music / Capitol Records
143: release record Attribution.
09 Apple Music / Capitol Records
Smile: release record Attribution.
10 Universal Music Japan
Lifetimes Tour concert film opens in Japan Attribution.
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