Katy Perry

When Katy Perry was a fourth grader, her teacher asked the class to make a "vision board" - a collage of magazine clippings representing dreams and aspirations that manifest in the .ventanilla expected life dropoff the year was 1993 and Selena had just won a Grammy nine Katy chose a picture of young Latin pop singer holding her golden statuette. Fifteen years later, Perry has been nominated for her first Grammy Award for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for his omnipresent # 1 single, "I Kissed a Girl" from his Top 10 platinum album One of the Boys, and was elected as My GRAMMY Moment artist this year. Arrival at the current sales of more than 2 million albums and over 13 million songs, singles and mobile products worldwide.

"I found my vision board when I moved recently apartments," says Perry, now 24. "I knew where I wanted to be even as a small child. I do not know if I put one foot before the other, I really someday".

Perry deliberate, not to mention his writing and voice talent and charismatic life, led to an amazing eye dish year-black pop star hair, with his cheeky humor sense and style painted up sexy girl, was the "star forward 2008" as Blender magazine put into question that featured Perry on the cover.

You could say it all started in April 2008 when Madonna told Ryan Seacrest that "Ur So Gay" Perry (excluding its November 2007 EP of the same name) - a kiss goodbye to a former metrosexual decline - was his .ventanilla favorite song dropoff "may have been a little comment on your behalf, but it was a great comment on my world," recalls Perry. ". It was like a big boat leaving the dock and get a champagne farewell" Shortly after being anointed by the Queen of Pop, Perry released her first single "I Kissed A Girl" - an ode to the provocative beauty of women who ruled over the radio summer in 2008, becoming a success in any format and shot to # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining there for seven consecutive weeks and tied Capitol Records Beatles record for weeks at No. 1 . the video was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards, including a nod for Perry for "Best New Artist" and became the # 1 most viewed video on MySpace 2008. to No. 1 airplay smash in 22 countries and winner of 2009 "Favorite Pop Song", "I Kissed a Girl" People's Choice has sold more than six million tracks worldwide. Its popularity Perry was also a mature target for Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, who has assembled a group of analysts who twist the hand to discuss the effect song on impressionable young American. Perry was also voted "Best New Artist" by readers of Rolling Stone and PerezHilton.com

June 17, 2008, EMI Music has released One of the Boys, spiritual romp through the colorful world of Perry showing his sharp, sincere lyrics, great voice, and feisty, swagger and vulnerability to female attractive songs as your last single, "Thinking of You". "I think people can appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides," he said. "Anxiety is all cool, but if that's all you have is just boring everything I write, whether happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it .." Case in point: brave, high voltage the album's second single "Hot N Cold", which became the second number 1 single Perry and international success, selling nearly three million digital tracks since its launch. Video of amazing, with its hilarious wedding theme, became the first # 2 most viewed all time on MySpace, demonstrating that chair and opposition critics that the success of this young woman in the irrepressible onesie satin and fishing nets is not a coincidence. When Saturday Night Live it false, it's official: Katy Perry was a bona fide cultural phenomenon.

So why Perry thinks it is connected to a mass audience when the road to stardom is full of broken dreams of aspiring candidates? "Because I'm just me," she said, "and that's all people want. People want to hear artists who are themselves but doing interesting things and sing over them is interesting that perhaps were trying to conceive, but I could not get a lot of girls who come to me and tell me. "When I heard" thinking of you ", I felt that way to a T, but I do not know anyone could put my feelings into words. "I think that's why people find me relatable. Also, someone can answer me. I'm not very far. I'm so in fact the same person I was before the singles. I just had a schedule for breakfast, lunch and dinner ".

Fans seem to respond to the quality girl next door accessible Perry (if the girl next door was a "ninja glamor" which describes itself), perhaps because it is not an act. Middle children of two pastors, Perry grew up singing in church. "My dad would give me ten dollars, that's a lot of money when you are new to sing in church, at the tables of restaurants, family functions, everywhere," he said. Perry was raised in a strict diet of church music; "Secular music" as his mother called him, was "not allowed". But one night during a slumber party, Perry went on a Queen record "and the heavens opened and saved me," he said. "From there, they have been my biggest influence. Their musicality and lyrics were so flamboyant and real. I had never heard anything like it."

By the time he was 15, Perry was determined to pursue a path in music. He spent some time in Nashville working with professional songwriters - "These veterans of country music who wrote songs for ever." - And hone your own skills as a composer "Each of my established songs;. 100 percent directly from my life" A 17, Perry legendary producer and songwriter Glen Ballard, who spent years guiding and developing her talent and songwriting met. The strength of the songs and full-throated voice of Perry caught the attention of Capitol Music Group, who signed in the spring of 2007. "I've been through so many ups and downs in this business," says Perry. "Before I signed up, it was hard I write a check for my rent and next to it, write:." Please, God, please. "But I did not jump off the Hollywood sign. Still all work for the better".

It is a long way from being broken to steal the spotlight at the MTV Latin America "Los Premios" (where Perry face planted in a large pastel pink) and accommodation and performing at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool, England, where she is in November 2008, winning the award for "Best New Artist" in the process. Now Perry is preparing for his first international cartel headlining tour, which is ready to face after a grueling last summer on the Vans Warped Tour - A critical comparison multiband circus "bulls in Pamplona ... minus the bulls or the picturesque Basque countryside. "" Warped was the hardest thing I've ever done, "admits Perry. "It was like being in the army as GI Jane get my ass kicked every day, but now I know how to deal with any situation."