Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson(born October 25, 1984), better known by her stage name of Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she pursued a career, and as Katy Hudson released a self-titled gospel album in 2001, which was unsuccessful. She latter recorded an album with production team The Matrix, and recorded a solo album which was never released. After signing with Capitol Music Group in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry.
She gained recognition with the release of her first mainstream album, One of the Boys (2008), which was the 33rd-best selling album of 2008, and produced three top-ten singles – "I Kissed A Girl", "Hot n Cold" and "Waking Up In Vegas"– on the Billboard Hot 100 among other charts. In 2009, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 51st artist of the 2000s. She released her first live album, MTV Unplugged in 2009. Her third studio album Teenage Dream (2010), which became the ninth best seller of 2011, and spawned five number one singles, "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". Teenage Dream was the only album—after Michael Jackson's Bad—to do so, and the first female in history to achieve this milestone. Perry also became the first artist to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, and has since heightened this to 69 weeks. As of 2012, Perry has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards.
n' This is Her Best Song :
1. Fireworks
2. Teenage Dream
3. Part Of Me
4. I Kissed Girl
5. Calofornia Gurls
6. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)
7. E.t
8. The One That Got Away
9. Hot n' Cold
10. Waking Up In The Vegas
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Perry , www.billboard.com
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