Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California, U.S.), known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American recording artist, songwriter, and actress.
Perry was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California.
Her conservative parents forbade her from listening to mainstream pop music.
As a teen, she pursued a career in gospel music under her birth name and released her debut self-titled studio album.
In April 2007, Perry signed a deal with Capitol Records.
She rose to fame in 2008 with the release of the single "I Kissed a Girl " from her second album, One of the Boys .
Perry's third album, Teenage Dream (2010), was preceded by the US Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles "California Gurls " and "Teenage Dream ", and later produced the number-one singles "Firework ", "E.T. ", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) ".
The album became the first by a female artist to produce five number-one Billboard Hot 100 songs, and the second overall after Michael Jackson's Bad (1987).
In March 2012, she reissued the album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection , which produced the number-one single "Part of Me ".
Her fourth album, Prism , was released in 2013 and included the number-one singles "Roar " and "Dark Horse ".
Perry has received many awards and nominations, and been included in the Forbes list of "Top-Earning Women In Music" for 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Throughout her career, she has sold 11 million albums and 81 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Perry has also made celebrity endorsements and released fragrances Purr, Meow!, and Killer Queen.
In July 2011, she made her film debut voicing Smurfette in The Smurfs .
The following July, she released a documentary film, Katy Perry: Part of Me , which concentrated on her life as a touring artist and the dissolution of her brief marriage to English actor and comedian Russell Brand in the early 2010s.
As of August 2014, she has accumulated a total of nine number-one singles on the Hot 100.
Discography:

Katy Hudson (2001)
One of the Boys (2008)
Teenage Dream (2010)
Prism (2013)