Sofia Catiari Alves, nº30 - Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, born in Santa Barbara , on October 25, 1984, known by the stage name Katy Perry , 5 is a singer and songwriter of American pop music and dance .
Daughter of a couple of evangelical pastors began his career singing in churches and come to launch a studio album of gospel music in 2001 , titled Katy Hudson, but had canceled sales due to their closure of Red Hill Records, responsible for producing the álbum.6 After changing her stage name Katy Perry and her musical style to pop -rock , she met producer Glen Ballard and signed with Island Def Jam Records in 2004 , recording an album called ( a) Katy Perry (aka Diamonds ) , but that was canceled before its lançamento.7 in 2005 , she signed with Columbia Records and recorded with The Matrix group an album with the same name , some days before its release , the album was also cancelado.8
The singer signed with Capitol Records in 2007 and , the following year , finally released his first studio album of pop music and pop rock , One of the Boys . The album's first single , " I Kissed a Girl " , was in the first position of the music charts in Australia , Canada, USA , New Zealand and the UK , making it the first hit of his career , despite becoming globally polêmica.9 the second single from the album , " Hot n Cold " , also performed well on the charts in several countries , getting on the podium of the American charts and irlandesa.10 With over 6,000,000 copies sold worldwide , One of the Boys was classified as Platinum Disc Association in the United States by the Recording Industry of America , with over 1,000,000 copies vendidas.11 yet that same album, Perry has released his third work song , titled " Thinking of You " , and also the fourth and final single, titled "Waking Up in Vegas " .
In 2010 , his second album , titled Teenage Dream , was released . The CD yielded six singles to date - " California Gurls ," the title track , " Firework" , " ET " , " Last Friday Night ( TGIF ) " and " The One That Got Away" . The first five reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 , making Teenage Dream the second album in history to achieve this feat and converting Perry the only woman at 53 years of musical parade to reach that mark - and second artist after Michael Jackson , the first and hitherto only singer to topple five songs from his album Bad in the first place , in 1987.12 in addition , when " ET " remained in the first chart on April 12, 2011 , Perry became the first artist in history to spend a whole year - 52 consecutive weeks - in the top 10 of the main parade Billboard.13
Perry has sold approximately 74.6 million singles and 9.1 million albums worldwide and is currently the sixth biggest selling artist digital songs in the United States with over 37.6 million songs vendidas.14 15 16 She has repeatedly indicated in prizes the music industry , as the Grammy Award , MTV Video music Awards , MTV Europe Music Awards, People's Choice Awards, Teen Choice Awards , Kids Choice Awards.17 18 19 20 21 fri Considered a symbol , the singer was voted the " Sexiest Woman 2010 World " by readers of the magazine Maxim.