Biographic - Sunday December 14, 2008 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Katy Perry. Born Katherine Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, California, on October 25, 1984, the middle child of two pastors, she grew up listening to gospel music and singing in Church, she released her first CD, the first Christian gospel album "Katy Hudson" in 2001. Moving to Los Angeles, she adopted the name Katy Perry, and worked with the hip production team The Matrix on the album project that was eventually shelved. She also worked with Glenn Ballard, the writer and producer famed for his work with Alanis Morissette on the multi-platinum album "Jagged Little Pill" although the collaboration yielded a track "Simple" that made it on to the soundtrack of 2005's "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" the collaboration failed to kickstart her career. In 2007, she signed a Capitol Records. A well-received debut E.P was followed by "I Kissed A Girl" the first single from her album "One of the Boys" it quickly became a worldwide smash, hitting the number one slot everywhere from the U.K to Australia, and becoming the 1,000th chart-topper in Billboard chart history.

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