Bio
“I can’t run from where I came from, nobody can,” says Katy Perry. When it came time to make her exhilarating second album “Teenage Dream,” Katy found herself increasingly drawn back home to Santa Barbara, Calif. Back to where they knew her before she became a superstar. Before she kissed a girl and liked it. And, certainly, before she sold 5 million copies of her Capitol Records blockbuster, “One of the Boys.”
“I love the vibe that Santa Barbara gives off and I wanted to really tap into the purity of my childhood and that feeling,” says the two-time Grammy nominated singer. “It was really fun to get away and walk into the studio with no make-up on.”
“Teenage Dream,” out Aug. 24, will move you, both emotionally and physically. “When I was touring, I wanted people to dance more,” Katy says. “So I wrote an album that made people move, yet didn’t sacrifice the story substance that I had on the last record.”
The album, whose producers include Max Martin, Tricky Stewart, Stargate, Dr. Luke and Greg Wells, is a glorious evolution from “One of The Boys,” It showcases an artist who dares us to join her as she experiences every facet of life.
“I’m giving everyone the full spectrum on this record,” Katy says. “You’re getting the sugary sweet, but you’re also getting the ‘Oh my goodness, she had to sit down for a minute and let some things off her chest’.”
Fun first single, “California Gurls,” declared by Entertainment Weekly as “unforgettable,” is the undeniable summer anthem of 2010. Featuring Snoop Dogg, “Gurls” is a sizzling salute to sun-kissed days spent in Daisy Dukes and a bikini top. Other album highlights include the heartbreakingly wistful “The One that Got Away,” the naughty, playful strut of “Peacock,” the uplifting “Firework,” the pulsing, stinging “Circle the Drain,” and the spiritual quest of “Who Am I Living For.”
And then, of course, there’s the passionate, thumping title track. “I called the album ‘Teenage Dream’ because I feel like I will always want to be that pin-up poster,” Katy says. “I definitely want to be in everybody’s dreams at all times until I get to Liz Taylor’s age when I’m not in your dreams anymore, and I’m just a diva!”
It’s irreverent statements like this that have branded Katy a true American original. She’s the extremely talented girl next door with slyly captivating charm. After Katy topped Maxim’s Hot 100 this Spring, Maxim editor-in-chief Joe Levy mused of her appeal: “It’s that feeling you get when you suddenly realize that the smartest, funniest, coolest girl you know also happens to the best looking and a pretty good skateboarder, too. All of sudden, your crush goes supernova, and this is Katy’s supernova moment.”
She’s the face most likely to adorn the bedroom walls of young girls who adore Katy not only for her musical brio, but for her playful yet sophisticated fashion sense (Who else could wear a blinking dress that lights up to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute’s Gala?) “I don’t ever really want to come off as trashy,” she says. ‘But I want people to know I’m definitely having fun.”
Of that, there’s no doubt. Seldom has an artist catapulted onto the world scene and captured not only people’s ears, but their hearts as well. Since the 2008 release of “One of the Boys,” Katy has taken a jet-fueled rocket pack to the top, wowing fans with her often whimsical, irresistible pop songs. Katy topped charts in more than 25 countries with cultural phenomenon “I Kissed a Girl,” “Hot N Cold,” “Thinking Of You” and “Waking Up in Vegas,” and has sold more than 22 million digital tracks and mobile products worldwide.
Katy erases any barrier between pop star and audience by writing all her own material. “You’re getting a pure connection to the artist,” Katy says. “You’re not getting some idea of what that artist should be, you’re getting a direct voice.”
Nowhere is Katy’s voice and vision clearer than in concert. She is a relentless road warrior, albeit one who comes complete with gigantic, blow up plastic strawberries to toss into the audience. As a newcomer, she stormed the Warped Tour stage for 47 dates in 2008, immediately winning over hardened rock fans with her ceaselessly energetic live show. Since then, she has steadily built audiences across the planet by touching down in more than two dozen countries and filling increasingly larger venues each time she returned to a city. 2009’s headlining “One of the Boys” tour was a phenomenal success, selling out around the world.
She’s also a popular television draw, appearing on countless talk shows, presenting and performing on the Grammys living out her lifelong dream of being lowered from the ceiling in a 600 lb. banana, serving as a guest judge on “American Idol,” a celebrity contestant on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and hosting MTV’s Europe Music Awards twice. More often than not she’s adding to her trophy case at each stop, winning Best New Act at the Europe Music Awards, Best Pop Video at the MTV Japan Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards.
As much as her life seems to play itself out in the press—she’s appeared on the cover of more than 15 magazines–she reminds us the real Katy is in every note and every word of her music. “If you ever want an answer about how I felt about something or what I was going through or what I believe or my convictions or my love,” she says, “You just have to listen to the lyrics.” We can’t wait to hear every word she has to say.
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Katy, wheather you ever read this or not I just want you to know how big of an inspiration you are to me. I cant wait to see your concert in tulsa, my cousin got the ultimate V.I.P package and she gets to meet you. I really wanted to meet you too, but its like i already have through your music. You are the person who inspired me to start singing myself. i have also got into modling and acting. I cant thank you enough. You probably get this alot from other fans but it is true..Well see you soon, be lookng for me in the lower level. i will be holdng up a sign that say i love you Katy or tulsa love Katy && such..
well keep doing what you do, your the best.
xoxo,
Reagan
Hello I am Moroccan Chi you love most is the beautiful eyes….
Hi Katy,
I just wanted tgo let you know I absolutely LOVE you in every way possible. You are truly an amazing individual who has been blessed with SO much talent that you have been able to share it with the world. I have both your albums and I had to tell you, when I was laying down one night listening to the ‘Teenage Dream’ album, I started crying the minute I heard “Pearl” and realized what the lyrics were saying. A few years back, I was in an abusive relationship and he made me feel horrible. Before I met this man, I was always happy, full of energy, playful and mentally strong, but somehow I managed to allow this person to break me down so much that I didn’t feel or act like myself at all. There were times when he would tell me I was stupid, ugly and worthless. That no one would ever want me or love me. There were even a few times he forced me to sleep on the floor like a pppy if I disagreed with him about anything. I stopped speaking to most of my friends and family and cried myself to sleep night after night. Then one day, I remember thinking to myself “Enough is truly enough” and I got out of the relationship and PROMISED myself I would never let anyone break me down and turn me into a shell of myself ever again. Your song truly hits that nerve everytime I listen to it, because I know I am nothing but a pearl and I’ll never let anyone steal that light from me anymore. Katy, you are truly an inpsiration to me.
I have designed a tattoo in honor of the song and my past experience that I plan on getting within the next month, I promise I will post it on facebook the minute I get it done 
SO MUCH LOVE
KatyCat Amaris <3
OMG Katy i luv u a TON ever since ur song firework i luved u and ur songs i would luv to meet u that is only one of my dreams the song firework tought me how to dream big AND LUV WAT I HAVE AND THINK OF THE GOOD THIGS IN LIFE SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANKS 4 THEACHING ME A WAY TO LIVE BIG
THANKS A TON
katy i love you. so so so so so so so much!!!!!! my friends all say im obsessed with you. which i am. haha you are just so freakin sexy and i love your voice and your face and i wish we could hang out and be best friends. haha number one thing on my bucket list is to kiss you on the cheek or give you a kiss on the cheek… or both
i love you so muc! i hope you actually read these… haha anyways you’re so sexy and i love you and you sound awesome and sexy live. i love you. haha
Katy you have the greatness of our human ancestory with you, Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmm
Katy you really are an inspiration to me! I saw you at Merriweather, and wish I had been close enough to give you my peacock build-a-bear! My last name is Peacock, and I got that build-a-bear a year ago in the hopes of one day giving it to you! I can’t wait to see you live again! <3
hey katy i love u ur just so good at singing and have a lot of talent u r so big to me i love u im sorry russel but i love u katy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks
You’re my Best Singer and i’m also a singer and i live santa barba California my real name is Stefani Chambers
I think you’re soo Cute and Sexy
You Rock Katy Perry
I <3 U
some one is saying the tour is over!! plz tell me it isnt!!!! im going to see you november 15th with my bff kari!! we have the wigs and everythimg!! plz tell me the tour is still on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also i saw you in june ten days after my birthday!!!!! you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love you katy perry
u are an awesome singer
dear katy my name is maddie and im 14 i no you probly wont see this comment cause your busy doing many things but i wanted to tell you that yopu have influenced the things i d in my life in so many ways and thats a good thing
i saw your california dream tour in philadelphia for my birthday and i love you your so amazing i think you are the prettiest celebraty and you are a pearl:) i sing also and i go to an arts school and you have inspired me to sing and follow my dreams to live my life through my goals and dreams.i know that you probly wont see this but if you do will you follow me on twitter @Y0ungVVildFree so that i no you saw it. and also i wish you so much luck in your career because i no that your not a stuck up hollywood person i no that you ar one of the realist celebraties out there and dont let anyone change you. if i had one wish it would only be to meet you and sing with you on stage i just want to no what its like to be sucsessful and blessed with all the potenial in the world.katy perry you are an amazing person and deserve to be where you are now
-cottoncandynkittys<3
@Y0ungVVildFree
Dear Katy.
Your voice is special. Some of my favorite songs haven’t made the radio yet – such as Circle the Drain, Who am I living for, Pearl. Your voice has such a wide range of emotion and vibe. Very much looking forward to new songs. I don’t think you get the credit you deserve for your singing. You are absolutely gorgeous but I think your voice is 100-times your looks (which is saying something!). Keep up the great work.
I love you Katy!! You’re the best!! Can you say me when is your next show in Portugal?? You are my best singer and I love the song Hot n’ Cold!! I’m crazy about you!! How can you get that voice?? You are amazing!! Ask me something that I don’t no about you!!
i really like you Katy..
hope you could read this.. hope so that you will have a concert here in the Philippines.. love lots!!
Hi Katy my name is Emily and I am also 14, but I will be 15 in January! I love your songs and when I’ve had a busy and rubbish day I just listen to your music and it cheers me up
. I really wish I could see one of your concerts but I haven’t had the chance yet. I hope that you become even more popular and successful and don’t listen to anyone who knocks you down because you are doing what you enjoy and do best. Nothing should get in the way of that. You should just get up off the floor and show them how amazing you are and that you don’t care what everyone thinks. One of the things on my bucket list is to one day meet you and hopefully get to know you. I don’t how, but however unlikely it may be, but I might someday 
. Good luck in life <3
Em xxx
hello management can you moderate my commens ß if not then delate my comments ok thank you
katy you are the best singer in the world !!!!!! 
katy good luck for your briten concerts ! come next year till germany ! your fan mathias7899
hello management i have listen now the song pearl and this a very grat song. a single from this song would good. lg mathias
Katy Peery,…I love you. My name Khamila Swastika Gumilar. I from Indonesia, Asia. In my school, i am a biggest fan of you. Sorry, if my language is false. i hope god blessed you and you can be a sucsess woman. Ok. Thank you
hai katy, happy happy birthday im your filipino fan
!! wish that you read it 
Hi, Katy Perry love your music I’m your number one fan even though Brazil and with the age of ten I love you, admire you, good luck in your career and all the things you do.
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hello here is mathias7899 from germany again
katy you have the best management in the world and thanks that your management moderate my comments thank you , thank you 
katy i wish you all the best for the EMA’s you are the best singer in the world and i love your songs . best wishes and greatings from mathias7899 (twitter name ) from germany !!!!!!!!!! 
katy!!!!! hi haveing a chat
hi katy!!! hope that u could read this… but i envy u!!! i hope i could see u live someday! someday come to des moines iowa. katy, u rock!!!
hello katy i hope you read that ! congratiolation for the best live award ! i wish you’d get more awards but one award is not bad ! best wishes mathias7899
hello
hello management can you say me why do can not answer my question and delate the comments i would only know whether katy read the comments on her website . thaks for an answer to my e-mail adress sutil@gmx.de thousend thanks
Hey Katy! I’m maybe very young, but I can tell you, that if you read this right now, you’ll know how much i love your songs, your videos, your style, your… In fact i love the personn you are !!!!!!!!!! your songs are a true inspiration for me, they make me happy when I’m hungry !!!! they make me smile !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep it up !!!!!!!!!!!! you are the best singer EVER !!!!!!! I hope you’ll read this one day !
XOXO, Stella from Paris
ps : You were awesome and amazing at the Zenith, in Paris, the 8 October last year !!!!! I will remember this everyday !!!!!!!
oh, and i love the pink you did to your hair, it’s so funny !!!!! LOL !!!!
Hello Katy Perry and Management. I hope anyone read this and answer me , because the last comments are not answers by you. I have a question .I have seen a really great picture from katy perry and i will take this foto
http://twitpic.com/7ckauj on this gaming board
http://www.arcade-oase.eu as avatar or profile picture. the board requires that i ask you or katy perry whether I can use it on this site. Please tell me whether I can use the picture or not. I know you not like answer questions from katy fans but i hope you answer this please. thousend thanks for your answer and love greatings from mathias germany ! -:)
my e-mail adress is sutil@gmx.de
OMG i would die for so ticks to one of you concerts u r my idold i am in to music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am singer and wouuld love to go to hollywood
Hi Katy! Maybe you do not read this, but for me this is the only way to talk to you, I am very young, I’m only 15, and you are one of my inspirations, you and your music! Unfortunately I could not go to the Rock in Rio, I followed your presentation on TV and cried a lot when you sang “Thinking Of You,” which was one of his songs that struck me most, and yes, I am Brazilian! Only now I plucked up courage to write this, to demonstrate this sense of fan I feel only by The Beatles, feel flattered lol. I wanted to thank you personally, but since it is almost impossible, I will thank here: Thank you for inspiring me, showing me that I’m single, for showing me to fight for love is not stupid, I do thank you for your love way without even having met you, for passing values that represent a lot to me, thank you Katy Perry for being an amazing woman as my mother! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! From your fan, Alice Barroso.
Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the most beautiful in the whole country? her best here but since the katy perry in california is a thousand times more beautiful! -:)
hello katy congratiolation to the special ama award . you are the best !
thank you that you have moderate my last comment
eh can you answer my question that not moderated by you or not ? please answer me @ sutil@gmx,de! thank you and have a nice day ! p.s. you make a good job thank you!
heyyy katy im ur biggest fan i love ur music and ur sweet to ur fans i really want to meet you
hello management please answer me or delate all my comment they are not moderated. thank you very much. your katy fan from germany
hello katy perry and management i realy hope katy read this but it’s very important. yesterday came the ulitimate chart show in germany . it was the 100. season and the vievers voted on clipfish for her 100 favorite songs. they could vote from ca. 1000 songs. all songs was played in one of the preceding 99 chart shows. katy was 2 times represented with hot’n could and i kissed a girl. 1 million voted for favorite songs. i kissed a girl was on place 71 and hot’n could on place 39 . congratiolation! it’s very good because e.g. madonna was not under the 100 songs and you could vote for 5 madonna songs and other great singer was not represented. congratiolation katy !!!!!!!!! my biggest wish would you could read this or your management tell you this. you are a great person and germany loves you so much. love greatings,all the best and a good chrismas time from your fan mathias
:) 
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson if you ever see this just know that I am your youngest biggest fan! My name is Maya and I am 10 years old. I started liking you when I was 7 or 6 years old. Not a lot of people can say that! I started becoming obsessed at 10 though. You are my idol and I would do ANYTHING just to meet you. One of my friends asked me if I could be anyone in the world, besides Katy Perry, who would you be? I said Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. Then she asked again this time excluding that name to and I replied Kathy Beth Terry. She asked again this time excluding that name too and I said myself. the most wonderful day of my life is July 30 2011 because that’s when I saw you in concert. If you were looking out from the stage and looked towards YOUR left and saw a little girl with a glowstick, long blonde hair pulled back in a bun, and glasses waving at you, that was me!!!! I know all the words to all your songs and have written them down in a songbook. I even havemade paroties for songs about me meeting you! I dream about you day and night all the time. You truly inspire me. Have a great Chistmas!
Love, Maya or Skittles
P.S. I love the new hair color!
hello katy perry , management and all her fans or visitors of of her site i wish all: Frohe Weihnachten, Merry Christmas , Feliz Navidad, God Jul, Glædelig jul, С Рождеством, לעבעדיק ניטל, عيد ميلاد مجيد, Hyvää Joulua, Häid jõule, 聖誕節快樂, મેરી ક્રિસમસ, メリークリスマス, Καλά Χριστούγεννα, Boldog Karácsonyt, สุขสันต์วันคริสมาสต์, Շնորհավոր Սուրբ Ծնունդ:,Mutlu Noeller, Linksmų Kalėdų, Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus, Joyeux Noël, Buon Natale, Gleðileg jól, Sretan Božić, 메리 크리스마스, Selamat Hari Natal, मेरी क्रिसमस, შობა, חג מולד שמח, শুভ বড়দিন, மெர்ரி கிறிஸ்துமஸ், మెర్రి క్రిస్మస్, and a happy new year, und ein frohes neues jahr.
Hi katy
i love you sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much
you’re the best
better than all
i hope that i can to meet you one day
i love youMY LORD.
BEST WISHES.
Hi Katy,
i LOVE you so much you’ve already met my cousin twice……she went to your concert when cobra starship was there and she went to your concert in vegas for her birthday…..the second time you saw you recognized her…..she has brown hair and she was wearing a fruit dress. but hopefully i will meet you some day…. you are my idol and i will be going to your next concert in LA. CANT WAIT TO MEET YOU!!! I LOVE YOU KATY, you inspire me!!!
i LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!
PLEASE RESPOND TO MY COMMENTS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH YOUR MY IDOL PLEASE IM GOING TO CRY!!
hello katy would be really great if you were to read this I want you to know that you’re a great singer and really admire you because you have a great voice and sings very well I love all your songs and talk about the songs you got to do before to change your name to katy perry, the truth I’d like to dedicate something to do with the music and you can say you’ve inspiradp me with all your songs, I hope you keep making more songs to come soon to Mexico to see you in one of your concerts and I have not had the opportunity yet to go to one, well I hope you do very well throughout your career and hope and I get to see you soon bye
and thanks for keep on singing 
Happy new year little late;)
i love you so much
i known u since the song “I kissed a girl”,and ever since then i listened to your music
Katy,
It would be foolish of me to think that you would ever see or read this, However I feel as though I am Urged to try my best to contact you in some way and this is the only way I know how. I don’t love you. I don’t know everything about you. I don’t follow you on twitter or feel as though I can live without you or your music on a daily basis. Although I don’t know you as well as all of these thousands of people who write here or anywhere for your “love.” But, with that being said I Am drawn to you. I am lost in those oceans of eyes and quite honestly I have written a story that…. wasn’t meant to, but has described you perfectly far before you were anything in the music industry. I apologize for this stuff I see on TV with Mr Brand, but it was an idiocy based relationship to say the very least. One of those ones that you know will fail, not that you want it to because of the beauty in it, but rather because the people are just two ends of an opposite ended spectrum. If you would like to read this and answer then do so, if not then I only wasted a few moments in typing.
Regards,
Chase P. Cedrone