11 Things You Didn’t Know About Katy Perry

Katy Perry is in South Africa and we can’t breathe from the excitement overload!

For the first time ever, after ten years in the music industry, Perry is performing live in South Africa. The show takes place at the Ticketpro Dome, Northumberland Rd and Olievenhout Ave, North Riding, Johannesburg. The first show was on Wednesday at 8 pm and the show
runs until Saturday.

Big Concerts International, who brought the American multimillion-record-selling star, have added the new date of July 21 following an exceptionally big demand for tickets. The tour was initially planned to be held over two days, July 18 and 20, at Joburg’s TicketPro Dome.

“Tickets are selling quickly and fans are recommended to purchase quickly to avoid disappointment,” said the company.

Witness: The Tour is Perry’s first tour since the sold-out Prismatic World Tour, which she concluded in 2015.

Witness: The Tour has been described as “an imaginative trip from outer space to inner space, from the planets to the bottom of our oceans, and a musical journey through the singer’s milestones and mega hits right up to her latest album”.

Here are 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Katy Perry

1. Katy was born on October 25th, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
2. She is the middle child of two itinerant born-again Christian ministers.
3. Nonreligious music was forbidden at home, and she grew up singing church hymns and gospel.
4. She learned to play the guitar and tried to kickstart her musical career in Nashville with a Christian record label, but her debut album, the gospel-influenced Katy Hudson (2001) bombed out, badly.
5. Her musical role models include rock artists, Freddie Mercury and Alanis Morissette.
6. Katy’s rise to fame was the single “I Kissed a Girl,” a song based on sexual curiosity with a hard-edged electro-pop beat.
7. Katy was in a high-profile relationship with English comedian Russell Brand, to whom she was briefly married (2010–12).
8. When “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in mid-2011, Perry tied Michael Jackson’s record of five number one songs from a single album.
9. Her 2016 single “Rise” was featured in television coverage of that year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
10. Katy has received several Grammy Award nominations, including album of the year for Teenage Dream.
11. In 2018 Perry became one of the judges on singing competition TV show, American Idol.