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Source (google.com.pk)Born Katheryn Hudson, Perry grows up the middle child of two devout Christian ministers from Santa Barbara. "I was raised in a very pseudo-strict religious household where the only thing on the menu was [gospel standards like] 'Oh Happy Day,' 'His Eye Is on the Sparrow' and 'Amazing Grace'," Perry later tells MTV. The sheltered teen begins taking singing lessons and traveling to Nashville, where her parents have contacts in the gospel recording industry.
At 16, Perry releases a Christian pop album as Katy Hudson. "It reached literally maybe 100 people," the singer tells EW, "and then the label went bankrupt." A second venture in 2004, this time with mega-hit production team The Matrix of Avril Lavigne fame, falls through weeks before the album's release.
Perry scores a record deal with Capital Records and ditches her Christian fan base for mainstream stardom with her pop debut, One of the Boys. The singer, who writes or cowrites every track on the album, makes waves with her '40s pin-up looks, risqué themes and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. "They're not meant to be 'Oh, no!' songs! They are my life, and I guess my life is a little bit 'Oh, no,'" she tells EW. "I Kissed a Girl," a flirty, pop-rock fusion, spends weeks atop the charts in more than 20 countries.
Perry begins dating Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy. "She's super hot," he tells PEOPLE of falling for his Warped tour tourmate. After a year of dating and even exchanging promise rings, they call it quits. "It hurts right now," Perry says during a concert after the split. "When you breakup with someone you move on. You don't really want to move on...but you have to because they don't give you any choice." The newly single star is eventually linked to musicians Benji Madden and Josh Groban.
After earning a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal performance for "I Kissed a Girl", Perry launches her first headline tour, Hello Katy, complete with a huge inflatable cat head and 3-D fruit. "You're gonna see me with all kinds of different things," she tells the AP. In February, she also takes the Grammy stage to perform "I Kissed a Girl" amid giant colorful fruit, gyrating female dancers and user-submitted fan videos.
After joking about having a crush on her at the VMAs, British comedian Russell Brand and Perry take their new romance public. Three months later, Brand orchestrates a special New Year surprise in India, where he asks Perry to marry him with a ring hidden in flowers.
A Dream Comes True
Covered by a cloud of cotton candy, Perry releases her second pop album, Teenage Dream. On the strength of its lead single "California Gurls," the singer's sophomore effort tops the Billboard 200 albums chart and earns her four Grammy nominations, including the coveted album of the year award. "It's really validating," she tells the AP of her album, which also earns a 2011 Grammy nomination for record of the year for her inspirational hit "Firework".
Becoming Mrs. Brand
Perry and Brand tie the knot in a "very private and spiritual ceremony" held at a resort in India, the newlyweds announce in a statement. "Love between two people is the most spectacular yet ordinary thing in the world," the groom said in the days leading up to the nuptials. "We'll get married in front of our friends and family…and keep it sort of normal." The lavish affair, which lasted several days, treated guests to safaris, song and dance numbers and several parties.
Perry lets the world in on her life with the release of the concert documentary, Katy Perry: Part of Me. In the film, cameras capture the singer behind the scenes of her world tour and document the breakup of her marriage to Russell Brand – which prompts the singer, 27, to tell reporters, "It's not always very fun [watching the footage]."
Perry gets the rumor mills buzzing when she's photographed leaving L.A.'s Chateau Marmont with singer John Mayer. Though the pair's romance seems to cool off shortly after, they reunite and later spend the holidays together. "They've spent a lot of time together and really enjoy each other's company," a source says. "John is entirely focused on Katy."
For the second time, Perry and Mayer split, only a month after the "Your Body Is a Wonderland" crooner describes their relationship to CBS Sunday Morning as "something that's very human." But by July 4, the on-again, off-again pair appears to reconcile once more, with Perry sharing an affectionate photo of the two over Instagram.
Buoyed by the success of lead single "Roar," Perry's fourth album, Prism, sells 286,000 copies in its first week to top the Billboard albums chart. "Perry has never sounded better, confidently belting it out or revealing more nuanced shades of her voice," writes PEOPLE music critic, Chuck Arnold.
The on-again, off-again relationship comes to an end when Perry and Mayer split for the third time. "Relationships are kind of like riding a bull – you hold on for dear life," the "Dark Horse" singer says in December while promoting her and Mayer's music video for the duet "Who You Love." "Sometimes you get a little buck here and there."
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