

Perry was born on Octoat Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, to Maurice Hudson and Mary Hudson ( née Perry), both pastors. The Happy Tree Friends Show - Petunia (Teen).Perry performing 1984–2000: Early life "The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful, The Ugly, The Funny, The Outer Space and the Beyond" (Vocal/Singing Only) featured in Hotel Transylvania 6: Monsters Spaced Out. Perry also began serving as a judge on American Idol in 2018. In film, she released an autobiographical documentary titled Katy Perry: Part of Me in 2012, and voiced Smurfette in the 2011 film The Smurfs and its sequel in 2013. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 18 million albums and 125 million singles globally throughout her career.

Her estimated net worth as of 2016 is $125 million. She has been included in the annual Forbes lists of highest-earning women in music from 2011–2018. Perry has received various awards, including four Guinness World Records, five American Music Awards, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award. "Chained to the Rhythm" was the album's most successful single, breaking Spotify's record at the time for most first-day streams for a song by a female artist. She followed this with 2017's Witness, which delved into electropop and became her third album to chart at number one in the U.S. It is influenced by pop and dance, and she became the first artist with multiple videos to reach one billion views on Vevo with the videos for its songs "Roar" and "Dark Horse". Her next record was Prism (2013), which became her second to top the U.S. In 2012, Perry re-issued the album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, which produced the songs "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake". The album became the first by a female artist to produce five number one songs in the U.S., and the second overall after Michael Jackson's album Bad. Billboard Hot 100 with the singles "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", while "The One That Got Away" reached number three on the chart. Her third album, Teenage Dream (2010), ventured into disco, and was her first record to top the U.S. The former track also sparked controversy for its themes of lesbianism. Perry rose to fame in 2008 with her second album, One of the Boys, a pop rock record containing the singles "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold". After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful.

After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge.
