Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (Santa Barbara, October 25, 1984), known by the stage name Katy Perry, is a 5 American singer and composer of pop and dance music. Daughter of a couple of evangelical pastors, began his career singing in churches and even release a gospel music studio album in 2001, titled Katy Hudson (even stage name used by it at the time), but which had its canceled sales due to closure of Red Hill Records, responsible for producing the album. After changing her stage name Katy Perry and his musical style to the pop-rock, she met producer Glen Ballard and signed with Island Def Jam Records in 2004, recording an album called (A) Katy Perry (aka Diamonds) but that was canceled before its release.
In 2005, she signed with Columbia Records and recorded with The Matrix group an album with the same name; a few days before its release, the album was also canceled.

The singer signed with Capitol Records in 2007 and the following year finally released his first pop music studio album and pop rock, One of the Boys. The album's first single, "I Kissed a Girl", was in the first position of the charts in Australia, Canada, USA, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, making it the first hit of his career, despite becoming world controversy. The second single from the album, "Hot n Cold", also performed well on the charts in several countries, getting on the podium of the American charts and irlandesa.10 With over 6,000,000 copies sold worldwide, One of the Boys was rated -platinum in the United States of America by the Association of Recording Industry, with over 1,000,000 copies sold. Yet that same album, Perry released his third work song entitled "Thinking of You", and also the fourth and final single, titled "Waking Up in Vegas".

In 2010, his second album, titled Teenage Dream was released. The CD generated six singles to date - "California Gurls," the title track, "Firework", "ET", "Last Friday Night (TGIF)" and "The One That Got Away". The first five reached the top of the Hot 100 Billboard chart, making Teenage Dream's second album in history to achieve this feat and converting Perry the only woman in 53 years the parade and reach that mark - and the second artist after Michael Jackson, the first and so far only singer to topple five songs from his album Bad in the first place, in 1987.  Furthermore, when "E.T." remained in the first place graphic on April 12, 2011, Perry became the first artist in history to spend a whole year - 52 consecutive weeks - in the top 10 of the main Billboard charts

Perry has sold approximately 74.6 million singles and 9.1 million albums worldwide and is currently the sixth biggest selling artist digital songs in the United States with over 37.6 million songs sold. She has repeatedly indicated in the music industry awards such as the Grammy Award, MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, People's Choice Awards, Teen Choice Awards and Kids' Choice Awards. Considered a symbol fri, the singer was voted the "Sexiest Woman in the World 2010" by the readers of Maxim magazine.














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Avicii

Tim Bergling was born on September 8, 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Avicii emerged in the music industry in 1996 when he was 7 years old, doing a remix for the game "Lazy Jones" Commodore 64 This led to his first release on Strike Recordings with the title of "Lazy Jones".

The dance critic of Hotpress Sean Russell described it as "the only DJ capable of whipping instruments and a full public presentation."

In 2010, Avicii released a collaboration with his colleague, the Russian DJ John Dahlbäck, titled "Do not Hold Back". Moreover, it has projects with internationally recognized DJs Tiësto and Sebastian Ingrosso. Although his works are mostly electronic music, EMI released a

vocal version of his track "Bromance," titled "Seek Bromance."

In October 2010, Avicii signed with the European A & R record label with EMI Music Publishing. Headquartered in London and New York, EMI is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the "big four" record companies and a member of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).

In 2011, his collaboration track "Sunshine", with David Guetta was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording. His band Penguin has become in the sample by Leona Lewis. However, there is conflict and controversy regarding Avicii receiving royalties over his creations.

In 2014, he canceled his tour due to health problems. According to Billboard, the list of shows included presentations at major festivals such as the TomorrowWorld, and more shows in the USA and Asia.

True (also titled TRUE) is the first studio album by Swedish DJ Avicii. It was released on September 13, 2013 by PRMD record labels Universal Music and Island affiliate of Universal Music. True has the collaboration of guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers US, the country singer Mac Davis and Mike Einziger, guitarist of Incubus. Also includes the participation of the musician and soul singer Aloe Blacc Dan Reynolds, the American rock band Imagine Dragons (his vocals were featured in a released version on SoundCloud although not being done at the launch of "Heart Upon My Sleeve") , singer-songwriter Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss and the band Union Station, the singer and songwriter Sterling Fox, and the American singer and songwriter Adam Lambert. Avicii said that sonically, the album would be away from their songs in the style electronic dance music and house music from previous albums, incorporating elements from other genres such as country music. True is preceded by the release of the single "Wake Me Up", which topped various music charts worldwide; and "You Make Me", which features vocals from Salem Al Fakir Swedish artist.

The album was a commercial success, peaking inside the top 10 of at least ten countries, including debuting at number 2 in the UK.

The Swedish producer Avicii songs had been doing since he started producing and

remixing tracks in his own room when he was just 18 years old. He began life as a professional musician in 2007, and after numerous collaborations with other music producers and DJs such as John Dahlbäck and David Guetta, Avicii has achieved international success with single "Levels" (2011), which reached the top 10 in more than fifteen countries and topped the charts in Norway, Hungary, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden and the Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard) in the United Unidos. As subsequent versions as "Silhouettes", which reached the charts in eleven countries, and "I Could Be the One", which reached in twenty-four countries, achieved popularity and similar to previous sales, Avicii entered the recording studio in late 2012 to record a debut album, aiming to follow your main success .

Since we began working on a studio album, Avicii said on several occasions that the material on the album would not be a replica of his earlier hits like "Levels" and "Silhouettes", and would be a more synthetic and experimental record. In his own words, he wanted to bring a "rupture" with the scene of electronic dance music, which he described as "half stuck". In an interview with music magazine Billboard about the new album, Avicii said in response to a previous conflict at Ultra Music Festival, who wanted to "take 15 minutes for something new to pass [Ultra]". In the context of the listener's reactions to the strong influences of bluegrass and country music, he further said: "We knew that people would be annoying." He further explained that True "is about being true to my sound, but also for my own influences and musical preferences For me, it will be successful if it resonates with people -.. No matter how many is what I stand for so if you love him, love what I love. So the fans are with me. Tim Bergling aka Avicii is a DJ, remixer and music producer Swedish. Avicii took fourth place in the ranking of the Top 100 DJ magazine DJ Magazine in 2011, third in 2012 list, and was ranked in third position again in 2013 he was nominated twice for a Grammy Award for her work in "Sunshine "with David Guetta in 2011.

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