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Katy was born on October 25, 1984 in the city of Santa Barbara in California. She was born into a home of Christian Ministers. So during her childhood she was very involved in the Christian community. Her parents had very strict Christian standards. They were only aloud to listen to or watch things that revolved around their religion. Her parents did in some way help her to start her career.

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. Her parents let her start taking singing lessons and would travel to Nashville where her parents knew people in the Christian Recording Industry. This was the very small start for Katy. When Katy was 16 she released a Christian album, which she released under her real name Katy Hudson, she sold about 100 copies of this album until the recording industry she was going through went bankrupt. During her teenage years, her parent set up Christian gigs for her at local church events and restaurants. Her parents band Katy from listening to any other music besides gospel music

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She did follow her parents rules of only listening to Christian music until one day she was with friends and heard the voice of Freddie Mercury. After hearing his voice she was open to the possibility of singing other genres of music. But this choice did not show up until later. When she was only 16 years old she moved from her hometown in Santa Barbara to Nashville so she could work with record companies so she could get her music out there.

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When Katy was 17 her life changed for the better and she started getting recognized. This is the year she met Glen Ballard. He mentored her and inspired her to become part of who she is today. He has helped out a couple of singers before, who became big as well. He was responsible for the Magazine Blender stating that Katy was becoming The Next Big Thing. While Glen was mentoring her, the recording company Capitol Music Executive heard and later signed her in 2007. Now that she was in this crowd of music and all the different genres the company signed, she had a better chance of being heard.

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This is when her music changed from being Christian oriented to being whatever she wanted to sing about. In late 2007 she offered a free download of her song Ur so Gay, and it was an instant hit. Everyone loved it and this was the official start of her career. She then released her song I Kissed a Girl, which was even better then her first song. This song became her first single. This song was used in a popular T.V. show that made it climb from being 100 favorite hit to being number 2. This was huge for Katys career!

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2009 Katy earned a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal performance for I Kissed a Girl, this was huge for a music artist just starting out in the music business. She also announced her first headline tour in 2009 called Hello Katy. This tour was meant to introduce Katys music to the world. Katy has a unique style of preforming her music. On this tour she used inflatable fruit and a huge kitty head to go along with her on the stage. She uses unique things like this in all her tours. In a sense it is what makes her stand out from the rest.

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Katy started opening for famous singers like Mika and The Starting Line. While she was pursuing her dream of becoming a singer, she met Travis McCoy, a singer from Gym Class Heroes. They started dating and played a couple in a music video. They became very serious and were going to get married but then later broke up.

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. In 2010, Katy met a British Comedian and they fell in love. They ended up having a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony. In the same year she released her album teenage dream. This album had several hits on it, and is her most famous album thus far. These hits are California Girls, E.T., The One that Got Away, Firework, and Teenage Dream. This Album is the second in history to have 5 number one hits in just one album. Katys career was on fire!

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In 2011, on top of her life of being a talented and loved singer, she played the voice of Smurfette in the movie The Smurfs. This movie was a hit and made half a billion dollars. She returned two years later in The Smurfs Two. This year was a crazy year for Katys Career. She was on her world tour and her marriage was failing. In the middle of her world tour, after being married for 14 months, her husband filed for divorce. This was devastating to Katy. She almost had to take a day off her tour, letting down Spain. She toughed it out and went on stage, shedding a few tears here and there but her fans supported her and pushed her forward by chanting We love you Katy! This was the push that Katy needed to continue her tour. Even though her love wanted a divorce, her fans would always be there for her. Her tour did not end until January of 2012.

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After her tour she was nominated for five different awards! She won three of her five nominations; these awards were Choice Music award, Teen Choice Awards and Favorite Tour Headliner. Not only did she travel the world and preform, but all her performances were filmed in 3D for her movie that later came out called Katy Perry: Part of Me. This movie showed her strengths, love, and devotion to her music, and it showed how hard the divorce was on her. This movie was a great success and made her fans love her even more.

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After her tour, Katys career went from hectic to slow paced. She was no longer touring or preforming but working on her new music. She has already released a sneak peak of three of the songs that are going to be on her new album Prism. She announced in early September 2013 that she would be releasing this album on October 22, 2013! Her song Roar, that is going to be on this album, is already a huge hit among the pop genre. This album is meant to explore the dark side of Katy and has been said to be a completely different side of Katy. She is starting up her Hectic career again traveling to different countries to preform a teaser of Roar for her new album. It is anticipated that this album will be just as big as her other ones and hopefully encourage her to take another tour to preform her new songs for the world. Katy Perry is a very talented pop Artist who has earned where she is today. She did not get it handed to her. She worked hard for it and the world recognizes that and cant wait to hear more from her.

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She is starting up her Hectic career again traveling to different countries to preform a teaser of Roar for her new album. It is anticipated that this album will be just as big as her other ones and hopefully encourage her to take another tour to preform her new songs for the world. Katy Perry is a very talented pop Artist who has earned where she is today. She did not get it handed to her. She worked hard for it and the world recognizes that and cant wait to hear more from her.

Composition Page

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Hot N Cold (3:40 Minutes) This song was written and composed by Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Katy herself. It was recorded with the music Company that signer her Capitol Records. It was part of her One Of the Boys album, which was her albums second single. It was released to the public September 9, 2008. This song is about her romantic relationship with a guy, told from her point of view. In the song she explains how her boyfriend is bipolar and the toll it takes on their relationship. This song reached number 3 in the world in 2009 and had over five million digital downloads in 2011. She preformed a version of this song with Elmo from the T.V. show Sesame street. She also preformed it on NBC as a live television premiere and also preformed it at the MTV VMAs in November 2008. This song was also included in her two tours Hello Katy and California Dreams. This song was inspired by her ex boyfriend Travie McCoy. She said it was the early stages of their relationship and this is the only way she could explain it correctly. She turned it into a music video and released that November 22, 2008.

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Firework (3:48 Minutes) This song was written by: Katy Perry, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm, and Ester Dean. It was produced by Stargate and Sandy Vee. It is on Katys third album called Teenage Dream. Katy said that this song was the most important of all the songs on her album Teenage Dream. This song was released to the public October 16, 2010. Firework received the most positive feedback from the critics, they said that the music was danceable and had a very catchy melody. This song in 2010 was ranked number 5 in the nation. She preformed this song on Her tour Teenage Dream. She won Video of the Year music awards for this song at the Video Music Awards. It was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards. This songs influence was that Katy wanted to make people fill strong. She wanted to write an anthem that was no too cheesy but made people want to throw their fist up in the air. This song got a very positive feedback and deemed Beautiful by several music critics.

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Peacock (3:52 Minutes) This song was written by: Katy Perry, Mikkel S. Eriksen, and Ester Dean and Produced by Stargate. This song was suppose to be on her Album Teenage Dream but was taken from the album because it had suggestive wording towards the male genitalia. Katys Record company didnt want to be associated with this song, just like how they were towards her song I Kissed a Girl. This song got a lot of negative reviews based on the word play in it. Katy was upset by the negative feedback she got on this song. She preformed it at the MTV World Stage in August 2012, In New Yorks Roseland Ballroom in November 2010 and on the 7th season of 30 Rock. She of course preformed it at her California Dream Tour even though her Record company was against it. She never preformed it vulgarly. Katy said the whole point of writing this song was to play with the words. This song was considered Katys worse because of all the negative feedback.

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Roar (3:42 Minutes) This song is composed by: Katy Perry, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, and Cirkut. The producers of Roar are Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Cirkut. It was released to the public July 29, 2013. This is also when she announced that it would be on her fourth studio album Prism being released October 22, 2013. Katy Preformed it at the closing of the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25, 2013 she did a special performance under the Brooklyn bridge , and on September 20, 2013 at the iHeartRadio Music Festival. It has been accused of copying Sara Bareilles Song Brave, but the artist is not mad or accusing Katy of doing anything. She Released her music video for this song September 5, 2013. This song was inspired by empowerment. Katy is standing up for herself and finds the power within herself. She says she wrote it because she is sick of keeping things bottle up inside and not speaking up for herself. She has been through a lot of therapy and this is what this song is about. This song got a lot of positive feedback, it contains a lot of spunky empowerment.

Listening Guides

Listening Guide Hot N Cold

I would have passed out paper of the music guide. For each individual one. This picture is for the mood. She is frustrated by her boyfriend the point of the song Katy Perry Hot N Cold

0:00 Introduction: Pop Culture Melody, 2 step beat rhythm with a constant 1 step beat rhythm (Drums with computerized beat) There is harmony between the two sounds. 0:03 First Verse starts, Vocalist begins to sing. Her voice is at a pretty high pitch that stays on the same level at this point. The computerized beat goes in between scales up up down. 0:27 Change in the vocalist voice it goes higher on the pitch scale and she holds out the notes on each word. 0:31 Chorus starts. The drum two beat continues along with the computerized rhythm. A guitar is added in with a constant rhythm. Keeping within the harmony. 0:48 Vocalists tempo goes up as if she is agitated or angry. 0:55 Vocalist tempo goes down, she has calmed and getting ready to continue her story. 1:02-08 Guitar stops playing and the 2 step beat starts up again. 1:09 Second Verse begins. Vocalists voice continues to be a bit higher pitched. Texture of the music would be that she is getting irritated with the behavior. She continues this way until 1:33 1:34 Vocalist holds out the notes at the end of her words giving a in-depth feeling of how hurt she is by this situation. 1:37 Chorus begins. Guitar rhythm returns to go in harmony with the 2-step beat and the computerized rhythm. In the chorus you can really tell by the texture of the vocalist voice that she is really irritated. 2:06-21 Piano is introduced into the harmony and continues with the computerized rhythm till 2:21. 2:22 Vocalist begins to sing third verse. Her voice is more smooth and is really hurt sounding, till 2:30 2:30 Vocalist is irritated and giving the music the texture of that she has had enough. 2:35 Vocalist holds out notes at the last of her words. 2:38 Guitar beat stops and vocalist starts again with one beat in the background. 2:44 Rhythm goes up on the note scale; high to low. Giving the effect of mystery of what is going to happen next. 2:47 Guitar rhythm returns and harmonizes with the other two beats. Vocalist starts with the chorus. 2:56 Back up vocals begin 3:01-06 Back up Vocalist 3:11 Back up vocalist along with the main vocals this continues till 3:30 3:31 Vocalist echoes the last word giving it an effect of she is finally done. 3:31-3:39 Music fades out giving it the texture of exhaustion.

Listening Guide Firework

This song is an anthem, ment to throw your fist up in the air. Firework Katy Perry 0:00 Introduction Music starts with a two step beat 0:01-08 There are four different rhythms inside the two beats. 0:08 Vocalist starts with a medium pitch. The drums begin in harmonizing with the first beat that was introduced. This is all in four step beat measure. 0:37 Chorus begins. The texture of the music makes you feel like you want to be strong. The pitch in the vocals goes up. 0:39 Violins start in with the rhythm giving it a happy harmony and texture. Making you feel like you want to throw your fist into the air. 0:46 Vocals pitch change going up. Giving you a texture of how important this is to her. 0:56 Vocals go to more of a scream in pitch showing that she is really in tune with this piece in her music. 1:02 The third beat starts giving it a harmony with the other two. 1:09 All the beats that have been introduced thus far are combined together giving the music a powerful stamina. 1:26 The second verse starts and the violins stop, giving the verse a more serious and sad feeling. 1:55 Chorus starts and the violins start up again. Giving the chorus importance. 2:11 All beats tune in together giving it a strong texture and a big bang in sound and harmony. Vocals change to a higher pitch. 2:43 The third verse starts, which the violins stop playing and a new beat that is computerized is introduced into the music giving this verse a different feel then the others. 2:50 Vocals go to a high pitch, she sounds so in harmony and in tune with what is happening in the music. 2:58 Chorus begins and the violins begin to play again. 3:13 Chorus starts over again with a combination of all the beats giving it the feel of importance. When the chorus starts up again its the feel of a finally of the song. 3:21 Back up vocals harmonize with main vocals 3:25 Back up vocals giving the song a sense of ending. 3:30 Back up vocals harmonize with main vocals continues thru 3:37 3:40 Sense song ending 3:47 Music stops, ending of the song.

Listening Guide Peacock

This song is meant to be goofy and fun. Peacock Katy Perry 0:00 Introduction Music starts with vocalist singing, no back music. Singer uses repetitive words. 0:01 The back music beat starts. Its a four beat measure. Drums play the four-step beat. 0:14 New rhythm starts to harmonize with the first beat. It consists of a constant two-measure rhythm. 0:15 First Verse starts. A constant computerized rhythm starts and harmonizes with the first two beats. Its gives the song a spunky texture. 0:21 Drums continue with the four-step beat. 0:25 Back up vocals, they fill in so that the main vocalist can continue to say what she needs to. 0:25-37 Vocalist continues to sing the first verse. 0:38 Back up vocals sing to fill in for the main vocalist. 0:41 Vocalist voice changes to higher pitch. This changes the texture to making it seem like what she is singing is a lot more important. 0:46 Back up vocalist, to help out the main vocalist with the point she is trying to get across. 0:52-0:55 Back up vocalist 0:58 Chorus starts. The drum beat stops and a computerized two-step rhythm begins. This shows that the chorus is different and is the main point to the song. 1:06-09 Computerized rhythm begins this gives a different texture to the song. 1:09 Computerized rhythm stops giving it a bit of a spunk and different atmosphere to the song. 1:20-23 Computerized rhythm starts and stops again. 1:23-26 Only four step drumbeat continues with the vocals. Giving a texture. 1:37 Second verse starts with vocalist voice at a medium pitch. The four-step beat and constant two-step beat continue with the vocalist. 1:47 Back up singers chime in to in power what main vocalist is trying to get across. 1:50 Chorus starts. Drum beat stops again. Computerized rhythm begins. 1:54 Back up singers 2:01 Back Up vocalist 2:04 All vocals stop and rhythm continues. 2:15 Computerized notes continues up and down at a two step, 2:38 Bridge starts giving a texture of frustration and excitement. 3:08 Chorus begins for the last time. Giving a sense to the ending of the song. 3:22 The same words are repeated over and over again telling the listener this is what the song is all about. 3:47 Music Ends sudden.

Listening Guide Roar

This song is about empowerment and the need to stick up for yourself. 0:00 Introduction One one Step rhythm piano with a six step drum rhythm. Giving the song an excited texture. 0:05 Vocalist starts singing first verse. The texture of it is like she is kind confused by whats going on. 0:27 Chorus starts; has a empowerment vibe. Base rhythm for back noise comes in harmonizing with the first beats. 0:35 Background vocals say one word. 0:45 Vocalist pitch changes to higher with the six beat continuing. A computerized rhythm is added to harmonize with beats. Gives song a happy atmosphere. 0:59 Vocalist holds out the notes at the end of the main word (Roar) giving it an empowerment vibe. 1:10 Vocalist holds out notes again. 1:11-17 Continues notes being repeated over and over again by vocalist giving a spunky texture to the chorus. 1:21 Hold out note to give the word importance. 1:24 Second verse starts. Background computerized rhythm stops and first beats continue. Letting listener know its not chorus. 1:34 Chorus starts, has the empowerment edge to it still. 1:48 Back up vocal helps main vocal with word importance. 1:54 Vocalist voice goes to a higher pitch emphasizing what she is singing. Computerized rhythm comes in helping the already made harmony. 2:06 Vocalist hold out the note giving emphasis to the word she is singing. 2:14 Back Ground Vocals help out main vocalist. 2:17-25 Repeat of one note from vocalist giving the song the perfect spunk. 2:27 Hold out note at the end of the word giving emphasis to the word she is singing 2:33 Vocalist singing inside of repeated notes. Giving herself another beat to sing along to. 2:38 Hold out notes again giving empowerment to the word. 2:40 Vocals stop, only computerized rhythm is heard. Giving a break to the vocalist and a quick second of mystery. 2:48 Vocalist starts repeating one word over and over again. Letting the listeners know that that is important and what the song is all about. 2:53 Holds out note giving word importance. 2:56 Chorus starts six beat continues. Computerized rhythm comes back in. Telling you the chorus has begun. 3:10-18 Background Vocals helping the main vocalist emphasis on the song. 3:19-27 Repeated note by vocalist, giving a edgy spunk texture. 3:30 Hold out notes and repeats notes let you know the song is almost over. 3:34 Vocalist sings inside of repeated notes giving it a filling closure. 3:40 Last held out note giving the last emphasis of the song. 3:41 Song ends, music stops.

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