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Katy Perry American singer Katy Perry performing in concert at the Pepsi Music festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 27, 2011.

Katy Perry

American singer
Also known as: Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
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Katy Perry (born October 25, 1984, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.) is an American pop singer who gained fame for a string of anthemic and often sexually suggestive hit songs, as well as for a playfully cartoonish sense of style. Her popular singles include “I Kissed a Girl,” “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” “Roar,” and “Rise.” Katy Hudson was raised in southern California, the middle child of two itinerant born-again Christian ministers. Nonreligious music was forbidden in...

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