Selasa, 31 Maret 2009

katy perry





Katy Perry was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson on October 25, 1984 in
Santa Barbara, California, United States.[2] The middle child of two pastors,[3] she has an older sister and younger brother.[4] Her Evangelical mother, Mary Hudson, grew up in Southern California, and had "a tempestuous first marriage in Zimbabwe".[4] Her father was a West Coast scenester in the 1960s.[4]

Baptized a born again Christian, Perry was incorporated to her parents' ministry,[3] and she started singing in their church from age nine to sixteen.[2][5] She grew up listening to gospel music[6] and was not allowed to listen what her mother called secular music.[7][5] Perry attended Christian schools and camps.[3] As a child, Perry learned how to dance in a rec hall in Santa Barbara. She was taught by seasoned dancers and began with swing, Lindy Hop, and jitterbug.[8] She took her GED after her freshman year of high school and decided to leave schooling to pursue a career in music.[9]


Perry initially started singing "because I was at that point in my childhood where I was copycatting my sister and everything she did".[9] She was in a constant fight to capture the attention of her parents off her sister's, who was at the time taking voice lessons. Her sister practiced with cassette tapes, and Perry took the tapes herself when her sister was not around. She rehearsed the songs and performed it to her parents, who suggested she should take voice lessons. She grabbed the opportunity and began taking lessons at age nine to sixteen. She enrolled in at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and studied Italian opera for a little while.[9]

Perry dated Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, whom she met in a recording studio in New York,[10] on and off for several years. After more than a year of friendship and casual dating, they became serious with their relationship right before they embarked into the 2008 Warped Tour. Perry and McCoy broke up in December 2008.[11]


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