BIOGRAPHY
Katy Perry is an American music artist, born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California. She began her musical career in 2001 by signing with Red Hill Records and released her first studio album, Katy Hudson, the same year. Her second album, One of the Boys, was released in 2008 and reached the top of the Billboard 200. However, it was with her third album, Teenage Dream, released in 2010, that Perry became an international star. This album produced seven singles, including "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T.," "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," "The One That Got Away," and "Part of Me," and was certified diamond by the RIAA.
In 2012, Perry released the album Prism, which produced the singles "Roar" and "Dark Horse." "Dark Horse" became her second number-one single in the US, and she became the first female artist to have five consecutive number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Perry released her fifth studio album, Witness, in 2017.
Katy Perry has sold over 18 million albums and 125 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best-selling female artists of all time. She is also the artist with the most success on the Billboard Hot 100 during the 2010s, with 69 songs ranked in the top 100.
Perry has won numerous awards, including five Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, a Brit Award, a Juno Award, an MTV Video Music Award, 28 Teen Choice Awards, and two People's Choice Awards. In 2015, she was named "the most profitable female artist of the year" by Forbes, and in 2016, she was ranked 11th on the "100 most powerful women in the world" list by Forbes. Perry was honored by the Recording Academy in 2017 with the Humanitarian Award for her commitment to various charitable causes.