58 FACTS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT KATY PERRY

1. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine (née Perry) and Maurice Keith Hudson. Her parents are born again Christians, each having turned to religion after a "wild youth". Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry.


2. She has a contralto vocal range.


3. Katy Perry isn’t actually her real name. Her full name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, but she later changed her name to avoid confusion with the actress Kate Hudson.


4. Perry is actually her mother’s maiden name.


5. She has an older sister, Angela, and younger brother, Dan.


6. She cites Alanis Morrissette and the late Queen singer Freddy Mercury as influences on her music.


7. Both of her parents are pastors. She started her singing career at her parents church at the age of 9 and sang until she was 17.

8. Katy Perry and Paul McCartney are practically BFFs.


 9. Katy Perry helped deliver a baby in a living room.
The mother was Katy Perry’s older sister, Angela Hudson, who had a water birth in a friend’s living room. Perry recorded the delivery on her iPhone.


10. Perry grew up with strict Pentecostal Christian parents and she wasn’t even allowed to watch The Smurfs or read Harry Potter. Ironically enough, in July 2011 Katy made her film debut as Smurfette in The Smurfs.

11. “Teenage Dream” had five No. 1 singles, which is tied for the most ever on an album with Michael Jackson’s “Bad.”


12. After just a few months of high school, Katy Perry completed her GED to pursue singing.


13. Some of her close celebrity friends include Rihanna, Perez Hilton and Adam Lambert.


14.  Celebrities these days are obsessed with social media websites. They have become regular users of websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Katy Perry is no different. She maintains an active twitter account to keep in touch with her fans. In October 2012, it was revealed that the twitter account of Katy Perry has the third highest number of followers after Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. She has approximately 30 million followers.


15. Katy Perry a gay activist. She is also one of those celebrities to have voted “NO” to Prop 8, which was an amendment put forward in the state of California to declare that a marriage can only be between a man and a woman. She backed President Obama in recent elections, as he was a supporter of homosexual marriage. Not only that, Katy Perry was also seen kissing Whoopi Goldberg in 2008 after her performance on TV.


16. Katy Perry married British comedian Russell Brand on October 23, 2010 in Rajasthan, India while they were on a vacation there. The ceremony was carried out in a traditional Indian way. However, they both filed for a divorce after just 14 months of marriage. The reason, as hinted by Katy Perry, behind their divorce was related to starting a family. She has dated singer John Mayer after that .


17. Katy Perry owns locks of both Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus’ hair, and has kept them in her purse.


18. Katy Perry has 4 tattoos. She has ‘Jesus’ tattooed on her left wrist, a tattoo on the left arm in Sanskrit which means “Go with the Flow”, a strawberry tattooed on her left foot and on her right foot, a peppermint tattoo.


 19. Katy Perry and Avril Lavigne are female singers with their own distinctive styles. Apart from their different music styles, both also have a different taste when it comes to fashion. However, when Katy Perry was starting out with Columbia Records, the record label wanted her to be the next Avril Lavigne, which obviously was rejected by Katy Perry.


20. Katy Perry has a pet cat named Kitty Purry. She loves her cat dearly and is often seen giving Kitty haircuts. Not only that, Kitty Purry has her own blog and was also nominated for Teen Choice Award in the category of Best Celebrity Pet in the year 2009.


21. She uses the jumping rope to keep her physically fit and have a flawless body.


22. Katy Perry dropped out of school when she was only 15 and left home at the age of 17 to pursue her musical career. Thus, she never completed her education. May be that is why she is very poor at spelling.


23. Katy Perry sure knows how to keep and please her friends. She loves mixing CDs for her friends. According to some of her close friends, she makes the best CD mixes and is known to have great taste in music.


24. When her song “I Kissed a Girl” came out, it became wildly popular amongst fans. Even today, when she performs the song during her concerts, cherry chap-sticks are often thrown at her by her fans.


25. Wonder where all Katy’s outfits go after she is done with them? She gives them away to her backstage crew.

26. She first caught the eye of producers from Nashville, Tennesee when she was just 15 years old singing in a church choir. They took her Nashville to help her with her writing skills and teach her guitar.


27. In 2010 she appeared as a guest judge alongside Simon Cowell in The X Factor.


28. Despite having trouble getting her record made and staying at one label she managed to get her song “Long Shot” into the soundtrack for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.


29. She has written songs for Selena Gomez, Ashley Tisdale and Kelly Clarkson.


30. Her first album “One of the Boys” featured the hit singles “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot n Cold.”


31. She was supposed to appear in the Russell Brand film Get Him to the Greek, but later had her scene cut.


32. Her hit song “I Kissed a Girl” was partially inspired by actress Scarlett Johansson.


33. Katy Perry's net worth is $280 million -Apr 19, 2017

34. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.


35.  After having three record deals fall apart, she signed with Capitol in 2007. Later that year, she released her first single,    "Ur So Gay." Still, her career did not fully take off until the release of her next single, "I Kissed a Girl".


36. She grew up listening strictly to Christian music, but when she heard her first non-Christian album, Alanis Morissette's    Jagged Little Pill, she was inspired by You Oughta Know.

37. She studied Italian Opera singing for a short time.


38. Perry began her music career singing Christian pop. When she was 16, Katy Perry released a Christian pop album under her real name, Katy Hudson. She told 'EW,' 'It reached literally maybe 100 people,' 'and then the label went bankrupt'.


39. She left home at the age of 17 to pursue her music career. She was signed by Island Def Jam Music Group and went to Los Angeles to work on a new album, which unfortunately never saw the light of day.


40. Katy was still dating Travis when she recorded the video for I Kissed a Girl. Travis also has a cameo in the video.

41.She's been the only artist since Michael Jackson to have 5 number 1 hits from the same album,Billboard reported.


42. Katy Perry's 3D concert/bio movie Katy Perry: Part of Me was released in theaters July 5th 2012.


43. Part of Me received a PG rating. It was the second movie made by MTV Films to get a PG rating after Napoleon Dynamite, and the studio's first documentary film to receive the rating, IMDB said.


44. Was reportedly offered $20,000,000 to join American Idol's 12th season in 2013 as a judge, but declined.


45. Katy Perry once described herself as 'a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and the skinnier version of Lily Allen'. Later, Allen took offense to the statement and threatened to release Perry's personal phone number.


46. She has written songs for Selena Gomez, Ashley Tisdale and Kelly Clarkson.


47. Perry has gotten a tattoo to commemorate each album: a strawberry for "One of the Boys" and a peppermint for "Teenage Dream." Perry even brought a tattoo artist on tour. She said, "We open it up to the band and the dancers and the crew. Even my manager is representing with a peppermint, which they probably hate!" she joked. One of her backup singers on stage that night was repping a peppermint tattoo as well. But the tattoos were done towards the end of each tour, so a prism tattoo is on hold for then.


48.Katy's favorite song to listen to in the car? "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston.


49.When asked what she would be doing right now if she weren't a singer, she said she'd be a stay-at-home mom or a stylist.


50. She can play acoustic guitar and electric guitar.


51. Katy released a fragrance in November 2011 called Purr, which comes in a cat-shaped bottle.

52. She also has a Katy Perry Barbie Doll that she released in December 2011.


53. Her natural hair color is blonde.


54. She appeared as herself in a 2008 episode of The Young and the Restless.


55. She is a strong supporter of the Democrat Party.


56. She won Best New Act at the 2008 MTV Europe Awards, which she co-hosted, and Best International Female Artist at the 2009 BRIT Awards.


57. Katy Perry is known to wear the most weird outfits, which she considers her own unique unconventional style. She usually wears bright colors and likes to dress up to represent different decades. In addition, how can one forget her love for fruit accessories as part of her costume? She is well known to change her hair color on a regular basis.


58. Her Astrology Star Sign is Scorpio.

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KATY PERRY - EARLY LIFE AND RISE TO FAME

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine (née Perry) and Maurice Keith Hudson. Her parents are born again Christians, each having turned to religion after a "wild youth". Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry. Through her mother, she is a niece of film director Frank Perry. She has a younger brother named David, who is a singer, and an older sister, Angela. From ages 3 to 11, Perry often moved across the country as her parents set up churches before settling again in Santa Barbara. Growing up, she attended religious schools and camps, including Paradise Valley Christian School in Arizona and Santa Barbara Christian School in California during her elementary years. Her family struggled financially, sometimes using food stamps and eating from the food bank intended to feed the congregation at her parents' church.

Growing up, Perry and her siblings were not allowed to eat the cereal Lucky Charms as the term "luck" reminded their mother of Lucifer, and had to call deviled eggs "angeled eggs". Perry primarily listened to gospel music, as secular music was generally discouraged in the family's home. She discovered popular music through CDs she sneaked from her friends. While not strictly identifying as religious, Perry has stated, "I pray all the time – for self-control, for humility." Following her sister Angela, Perry began singing by practicing with her sister's cassette tapes. She performed the tracks in front of their parents, who suggested she take vocal lessons. She began training at age 9, and was incorporated into her parents' ministry, singing in church from ages 9 to 17. At 13, Perry was given her first guitar for her birthday, and publicly performed songs she wrote. She tried to "be a bit like the typical Californian girl" while growing up, and started rollerskating, skateboarding, and surfing as a teenager. Perry's brother David described her as a tomboy during her adolescence. She took dancing lessons and learned how to swing, Lindy Hop, and jitterbug.

Glen Ballard, the reknowned writer producer of "Man in the Mirror" and Alanis Morrisette, discovered Katy Perry, spent years and SIGNIFICANT money working with her, and brought her to two different labels, each of which dropped her before she was finally signed to EMI. After having three record deals fall apart, she signed with Capitol in 2007. Later that year, she released her first single, "Ur So Gay." Still, her career did not fully take off until the release of her next single, "I Kissed a Girl".

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95 FACTS OF THE GORGEOUS TAYLOR SWIFT

1. Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Scott Kingsley Swift and Andrea Gardner (Finlay) Swift. The exact time she was born is 5.17 a.m. She was named after James Taylor, a famous singer and performer in his own right.

2. Swift is crazy paranoid about being secretly recorded. She revealed in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview: “The janitor who’s being paid by TMZ [could record me]. This is gonna sound like I’m a crazy person--but we don’t even know. I have to stop myself from thinking about how many aspects of technology I don’t understand.”

3. After learning from a visiting computer repairman how to play three guitar chords, Swift wrote her first song, "Lucky You," at the age of 12. Today, she can play guitar, banjo, piano, ukulele, and electric guitar.

4. After attending a traditional high school during her freshman and sophomore years, Swift transferred to Aaron Academy to be homeschooled. This worked best with her busy tour schedule.

5. Swift is obsessed with Perrier (the drink), and at any given time has a variety of different flavors in her refrigerator, including black cherry, pomegranate, blueberry, strawberry, key lime, and tangerine lime.

6. Swift is the first country singer to win an MTV Video Music Award, and at the age of 11 won a talent contest by covering "Big Deal," a song made popular by LeAnn Rimes.

7. Talk about a strange sense of style: Swift has a fish tank filled with vintage baseballs in her living room.

8. A lot of people don't realize that singing isn't Swift's only gig--she has many television and movie credits to her name.

9. Swift has received more than 200 awards from nearly 600 nominations. Some of the most prestigious include seven Grammy Awards, 22 Billboard Music Awards, and 16 American Music Awards.

10. Swift keeps a bedroom in her house for her BFF Karlie Kloss, complete with Karlie’s favorite snacks and tons of photos of her on the wall.

11. You may know her as Taylor Swift, but friends have many nicknames for her, such as Tay, T-Swift, Swifty, and T-Swizzle.

12. In 2014, Swift told Rolling Stone she was distancing herself from the country scene, making her transition to pop complete. She announced at that time that she would no longer go to country music award shows or promote her albums on country radio stations.

13. She is terrified of snakes and spiders.

14. Her favorite food is cheesecake.

15. Swift is more than just a pretty face with a killer voice. She is also a history buff, noting on her website that she knows American history "like the back of my hand."

16. Swift enjoys writing many of her own songs, with some of the most popular including "Bad Blood," "Our Song," and "Back to December." "Our Song" was written for her high school talent show, but eventually ended up on her debut album. It later became a No. 1 single that won her many awards. In fact, she's such a prolific writer that she's credited as one on every song she’s ever released and is the sole writer on more than half of them.

17. Swift is so over the dating scene--and she blames you! "And most of all, I don't like how all these factors add up to build the pressure so high in a new relationship that it gets snuffed out before it even has a chance to start. And so," she told Rolling Stone, "I just don’t date."

18. Swift's hit "Change" was one of the official theme songs used during the 2008 Summer Olympic games.

19. Swift is obsessed with "Disney everything." She even appeared in the Disney feature movie Hannah Montana.

20. Her first hobby was English horse riding and she competed in horse shows.

21. Taylor is the first country singer to win an MTV Video Music Award. Her video “You Belong with Me” won the Best Female Video award in 2009.

22. Swift is such a force of nature in the music industry that it took her less than 24 hours to get Apple to back down from its decision not to pay royalties to artists for songs played during trials of its new music-streaming service. In a letter posted to Tumblr, she had threatened to withhold her top-charted album 1989 from the service.

23.. Swift has an estimated net worth of $200 million, generated primarily from music, touring, and endorsements. In 2015, she will earn approximately $80 million. In addition to her music royalties and touring, she has a variety of endorsement deals, including Keds and Coca-Cola.

24. Swift clearly has a great sense of humor and also isn't afraid to throw a bit of shade when it's warranted. She has a framed photograph of the infamous onstage Kanye West encounter hanging in her Nashville home, captioned, “Life is full of little interruptions.”

25. She regularly shares her good fortune (and fortune) with others, such as by funding the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.

26.Swift was at an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005 when she caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records.

27.Taylor spent most of her childhood on an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. When she was nine years old the family moved to Wyomissing, PA, where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.

28.Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) is the seventh-most followed user on Instagram by number of followers (106 million).

29. Her favorite color is purple.

30. "Should've Said No" was a last-minute addition to her debut album. She wrote it two days before mastering was scheduled. 14. Taylor's first single ("Tim McGraw") was inspired by an actual Tim McGraw song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'."

31. Swift's main residence is a duplex penthouse in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. She also spends time at a three-bedroom cottage in Beverly Hills, California, and a duplex penthouse in Nashville, Tennessee. She owns an eight-bedroom summer home in coastal Watch Hill, Rhode Island.

32. According to Forbes, Swift has a net worth of $280 million — the ninth richest of all female entertainers in the U.S. From June 2015 to June 2016, Swift made the most of any other musician with a record $170 million, according to Forbes's 2016 list.

33. One of her best friend's name is Abigail Anderson.

34. 13 is Taylor's favorite number.

35. Taylor is the youngest songwriter to be hired by Sony/ATV Music publishing house.

36. Taylor Swift's height is 5' 10" or 1.77 m.

37. Taylor Swift's weight is 54 kg or 119 pounds.

38. Her hair color is blond, her eyes are blue in color and her measurements are 34-25-35 inches or 75-62-77 cm.

39. Taylor's bra size is 34 B. Taylor's shoe size is 8.5 (US)

40.The six things that are always in her refridgerator are eggs, thinly sliced ham and chicken, orange juice, diet coke, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and binge food like cookie dough or a tube of cinnamon rolls.
During show days she kicks off with a breakfast of eggs, sausage, biscuits and "anything else I can get my hands on".

41. She has won a national poetry contest with her poem titled "Monster in My Closet".

42. Her favorite book is The Hunger Games and To Kill a Mockingbird.

43. She lend her voice in the animated film The Lorax a 2012 film playing the role of Audrey.

44. If she likes a boy, she won't tell him face to face. Instead she will write a song about him.
She has only put one guy's name in the songs she's written about boys. The lucky guy is Lars.

45. She has appeared in the film Valentine's Day (2010) and also in one episode of CSI in 2000.
   She had a cameo in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)

46. She loves mystery books. Her favorites are "Murder on the Orient Express" and "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.

47.Taylor love quotes. Her favorite quote at the moment is "just as things grow in fast movies, I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." The quote is from the Great Gatsby.

48. She loves the subject of history and knows American history like the back of her hand.

49.Taylor can be very moody at times.

50.Taylor is the youngest artist in history to win a Grammy Award for Album of the year in 2010. She was only 20 years old at that time.

51.She contributed two songs to the movie The Hunger Games (2012). The songs are "Safe & Sound" and "Eyes Open".

52.Her brother Austin Swift is a freelance photographer. He help photograph her Fearless Tour.
Her album "Fearless" is the most awarded album in the history of country music. The album is certified six times platinum.

53.Taylor is the top selling digital artist in history.

54.Taylor became the youngest sole writer and singer of a no.1 country song through her single "Our Song".

55. Her lead single "Love Story" released in 2008 became the 2nd best selling country single of all time.

56.She wrote all the songs in her third studio album "Speak Now'.
 She wrote 9 of the 16 songs in her fourth studio album "Red". The other 7 songs in the album she co-wrote it with Max  Martin, Ed Sheeran, Gary Lightbody, Dan Wilson and Liz Rose.

57. Her single "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" released in August 2012 became Swift's first no.1 on the US  Billboard Hot 100 chart.

58.The person she wrote about in her song "Tim McGraw" is named Johnny. 

59. She was in a relationship with Joe Jonas from June 2008 to October 2008.

60.Taylor is best friends with Selena Gomez and Emma Stone. She is good friends with Kellie Pickler, Hayley Williams and  Emma Watson.

61.Taylor loves "The Great Gatsby" as it fascinates her, with all the mystery and symnolism behind this story.

62.Her cousin Kristen is the subject of he song "Never Too Far Away".

63.Taylor admits that she is an extremely clumsy person and jokes that her parents always make fun of her because she spills everything.

64.Taylor likes to watch Brain Games aired on National Geographic. She also love Pretty Little Liars and Twisted and also Whodunnit.

65.Taylor is an extrovert and a spontaneous person. She is an extremely caring person. 
 She believes that one can be a shy extrovert.

66.Her song "This is Us" is about her best friend.

67.Taylor connect songs, scents, and movies to specific times and places.

68.She loves YouTube videos.
Taylor is friends with PewDiePie and she texts him on the phone.
Her favorite YouTubers are catrific, missglamorazzi, macbarbie07, meghanrosette, Kingsley, Jack and Finn, Smosh, and TheFineBros.

69.She loves to watch movies. While watching movies, she likes to observe everything in the movie from the acting to the soundtrack. Taylor doesn't have a favorite movie but she LOVES every single Disney movie.

70.Taylor is one of those singers who love to write her own songs. To date she has written more than 40 songs and the number is growing every year. The songs that she write is a reflection of her life, her daydreams and nothing else.
Her songs are extremely catchy and captures the heart of teenagers and young adults. Being able to connect to the high and lows of this generation. (no wonder she's so popular)

71.Which one do you think Taylor love more? Silver Jewelry or Gold? Answer : Silver Jewelry.

72.Cleaning her room while listening to "Taylor" is one of her favorite things in life.

73.She is always fascinated with Psychology and personality types and how her brain works.
She considers herself an optimist. But her optimism also depends on the situation.
However, she is not a realist. She pretty much likes to be a dreamer.

74.She is obsessed with iPhone cases especially the vintage, handmade ones that can be found on Etsy.

75.She act in plays and have found lots of friends in the plays.

76.Taylor's favorite place is the ocean. She loves Long Beach Island and plans to buy a house there when she old.

77.She is afraid of beetles.

78.Taylor admits that she has trouble accepting changes. Taylor is an introvert and rarely tell others what is in her mind.
She spends a lot of time thinking of herself and life and theories and metaphors.

79.She likes to DIY. Taylor buys things for herself and like to finish it herself.

80.Summer to her is like the 1940s style. She imagines herself spending time with friends and family in a lake house.
She hates medical school. 

81.Her ultimate dream is to be a singer and songwriter. Our Taylor is definitely living her dream right now.
If she is not a singer she would probably be an interior designer, detective, neurologist or psychologist.

82.She loves to travel long distance in a car enjoying long rides of more than 4 hours plus.
She has an attachment to places that have a profound effect in her life. School would be one of them.

83.She is more like her dad. Both of them like to make decisions rationally based on the mind and not the heart.
Taylor and her dad love English and they read the same books. Both father and daughter are like best friends.
Her favorite series is The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth.

84.She likes to put on sunscreen.

85.Taylor is obsessed with everything regarding Disney.

86.Her mums side family reunion has more than 50 people.

87.One of her dreams was to be on the Ellen show.

88.Kanye West once rob Taylor's mic during the VMA award show.

89."The Martian" is a movie that moved Taylor.

90.The first song she learned to play on the guitar is "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer.

91.Her favorite scented candle is Byredo Treehouse. 

92.In June 21 2015, Taylor Swift wrote an open letter to Apple withholding her album from Apple music.She single handedly brought down the billion dollar company by making it change its decision with regards to royalty payments to artist during the 3 month trial period of Apple Music. Apple responded within 24 hours agreeing to pay the royalties within the trial period. No other singer in history had such an immediate effect on the tech giant, Apple.

93.Taylor won the Album of The Year at the 2016 Grammy Awards for her album 1989. This is her second Album of The Year. The first being Fearless in 2010. She is the first woman in history to win album of the year twice!

94.Taylor is one of the most followed celebrities on Twitter with 77 Million followers and growing!
Taylor is also one of the most followed celebrities on Instagram with 77.1 Million followers (almost the same like Twitter) and growing!

95.Taylor Swift has 3 music videos that has more than 1 Billion views on YouTube. They are Blank Space (currently about 2.2 Billion) ,Shake It Off (currently about 2.4 Billion) and Bad Blood (currently about 1.1 Billion).

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POP SINGER TAYLOR SWIFT - EARLY LIFE AND RISE TO FAME

Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), was a homemaker who had previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Swift has a younger brother named Austin. Swift spent the early years of her life on a Christmas tree farm. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, before transferring to The Wyndcroft School. The family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.

At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions. She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. Swift later shifted her focus toward country music inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything". She spent her weekends performing at local festivals and events. After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure that she needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career. At the age of eleven, she traveled with her mother to visit Nashville record labels and submitted a demo tape of Dolly Parton and Dixie Chicks karaoke covers. However, she was rejected since "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different".

When Swift was about 12 years old, computer repairman and local musician Ronnie Cremer taught her how to play guitar and helped with her first efforts as a songwriter, leading to her writing "Lucky You". In 2003, Swift and her parents started working with New York-based music manager Dan Dymtrow. With his help, Swift modelled for Abercrombie & Fitch as part of their "Rising Stars" campaign, had an original song included on a Maybelline compilation CD, and attended meetings with major record labels. After performing original songs at an RCA Records showcase, Swift was given an artist development deal and began making frequent trips to Nashville with her mother.

To help Swift break into country music, her father transferred to the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch when she was 14, and the family relocated to a lakefront house in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift attended public high school, but after two years transferred to the Aaron Academy, which through homeschooling could accommodate her touring schedule, and she graduated a year early.

A stellar performance at The Bluebird Café in Nashville helped Swift get a contract with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records. She released her first single, "Tim McGraw," in 2006, and the song became a Top 10 hit on the country charts.

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121 FACTS OF POP STAR JUSTIN BIEBER

1.Justin Bieber was born on 1st March 1994. His zodiac sign is Pisces.
2.His nicknames are j-beebs, bieber and beebs.
3.Justin can play the drums, guitar, piano and trumpet.
4.His greatest influences are Usher, Craig David, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake.
5.He took an airplane for the first time on the way to meet the man who would become his manager.
6.Justin Bieber's favorite number is 6 and his favorite food is spaghetti Bolognese.
7.Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) is the 10th-most followed user on Instagram by number of followers (96 million)

8.Justin joined snapchat in June 2015 - his Snapchat name is rickthesizzler.
9.Justin's My World album went platinum only 3 months after it was released.
10.While filming ''Eenie Meenie'' a Bentley was damaged, and it cost $50000 to fix.
11.What Do You Mean was the first single released from Purpose on August 28th 2015 and went on to become a number-one hit in 18 different countries and netted   Bieber his first ever number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US and the UK's Official Single Chart.
12.Justin gains an average of 207,788 fans on Facebook a week.
13.Once Justin got an ‘F’ in school, but he changed it to a ‘B’, so he wouldn’t get in trouble. 
14.He has claustrophobia and he’s really afraid of elevators.
15.He grew up listening to Boyz II Men.
16.His favourite animal is a giraffe.
17.He gets about 6 hours of sleep each night because of his busy schedule
18.He loves tacos!
19.His fave pie is apple pie.
20.He enjoys skateboarding.
21.His childhood celeb crush was Beyonce.
22.On his first date he spilled spaghetti on his dates’s shirt
23.His super power wish is to fly.
24.It only takes him 20 minutes to get ready in the morning.
25.He’s a really good beatboxer.
26.His fave vacation spot is the Bahamas.
27.His fave song is So Sick by Ne-Yo.
28.His fave soda is Sprite.
29.He did not grow up rich.
30.He is left-handed.
31.His favorite color is purple.
32.He loves hockey and roots for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
33.He loves onesies.
34.He likes playing soccer, basketball and hockey!
35.His fave slang word is ‘shawty’ and 'swag'.

36.At his first talent show, he sang ‘Falling’ by Alicia Keys.
37.He once lived in Britney Spears' former L.A. home, but now lives in a hotel.
38.Barney was the first album he ever had!
39.When he doesn’t feel well he takes quick naps after lunch.
40.His mentor is Will Smith. 
41.He speaks French fluently,and can count to10 in German.
42.After he cut his hair, he auctioned it for $12,000 on eBay. 
43.He can solve a Rubix Cube in less than two minutes.
44.Justin drove P-Diddy’s white Lamborghini around LA to get some frozen yoghurt with Sean Kingston.
45.Justin says his favorite underwear is D&G.
46.While filming the ‘One Less Lonely Girl’ music video, the puppy in the video peed on Justin.
47.When in Germany, Justin practiced German by telling a fan “Ich Liebe Dich” (I love you), and she fainted.
48.If Justin’s water bottle has water at the end of concerts, he throws it in the crowd.
49.Justin was teased in school because of his height.
50.Justin says “Smile” 36 times in the song ‘U Smile’.
51.Justin doesn’t like clowns.
52.Justin said if he had to pick a favorite Jonas Brothers song it would be “Inseparable”.
53.Justin was signed to Island Records in 2008.
54.Justin once had a dream that a cat ate him, that’s why he doesn’t like cats.
55.Justin got really annoyed with the girl in the ‘Eenie Meenie’ music video, because she couldn’t      dance.
56.Two haters bought backstage passes to tell Justin that his parents divorce was his fault.
57.Jazzy, Justin’s little sister calls him ‘Boo Boo’ when she needs something.
58.Justin can juggle, do a front flip and back flip.
59.Justin weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces when he was born.
60.Justin’s Twitter account is worth over $9,000,000.
61.Justin first met Usher in a car park.
62.Justin likes bananas and grapes.
63.Justin has been best friends with Ryan since they were 7.
64.Sometimes he wears a dog tag given to him by a fan.
65.Justin once held up a sign from his hotel room window saying “Go to McDonalds and get me a Big Mac”.

66.The Today Show was the first place that Justin performed ‘Never Say Never’ live.
67.Justin’s dad is the person who taught him how to drive.
68.Justin has been a victim of cyber bullying.
69.Justin found his backup dancers on YouTube.
70.He likes vitamin water, his fave drink is orange juice.
71.His shoe size is 7 and a half.
72.He likes girls with pretty eyes & smile, & a good personality
73.His most embarrassing moment is when he broke his foot on stage during a song – (but he finished the song, didn’t even miss a note!)
74.His fave candy is Sour Patch Kids.
75.He loves the ocean.
76.He’d rather travel by bus than airplane – he claims he’s ‘obsessed’ with his bus!
77.He says he never remembers to pack a toothbrush and at every hotel he goes to he has to get a new one!
78.He tries to visit a mall in every city while on tour!
79.When he first came to the UK he had 3 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts all at once!
80.His guilty pleasures are doritos!
81.He likes it when fans wear t-shirts supporting him.
82.He was thinking about going on American Idol before he got signed.
83.He once signed 50 posters in under 3 minutes.
84.He is the only artist to have all songs from a single album to chart in the US Hot 100.
85.He wore invisible braces.
86.His fave personal motto is ‘family first’.
87.‘Where Are You Now’ was written about his Dad.
88.He always talks about how much his fans mean to him!
89.He hates ignorant and racist people!
90.His fave moment was when his baby sister was born.
91.His fave British words are ‘Brilliant’ and ‘Geezer’
92.His fave music is R&B and Pop.
93.His fave video game is nba 2k.
94.His label is Island Def Jam.
95.He got his first plaque at YTV’s The Next Star at Canadas Wonderland.
96.He can moonwalk.
97.He has performed for President Obama.
98.‘Row Row Row Your Boat’ was the first song he learnt.
99.He prefers Macs over PCs.
100.He had raised 150,000 lbs of food for Food Bank with the help of his fans!

101.His fave shoe brand is ‘Supra’.
102.His fave romantic movie is The Notebook.
103.His fave TV show is Smallville.
104.His fave sandwich is tomato and mayo on Wonder Bread.
105.He really loves snowboarding and jet-skiing!
106.Justin once kissed a poster of himself and said “Yup, I’m a great kisser”.
107.Justin says he wants 3 kids.
108.Justin Bieber got a main road named after him.
109.Justin is the most searched person on the Internet. – Yep,we search him every day!
110.President Obama revealed that he doesn’t have Justin Bieber on his iPod. – Really?
111.Justin has his own Google BieberSearch.com.
112.It takes less than 30 seconds for one of Justin’s tweets to be Re-Tweeted 100+ times.
113.A rumor once circulated that Justin was dead and another one said he committed suicide on July 31.
114.Justin didn’t want to wash his face after Rihanna kissed him.
115.On September 2, 2009, Justin Bieber was a trending topic for one of the first times and he was thrilled.
116.He goes to church and is a Christian.
117.His favourite ice cream flavour is cotton candy.
118.The cost of having a JB haircut is $150.
119. He has 56 tattoos.
120.He reflected his faith in a music video with Brandon Burke, titled "#iPledge", in which he talks about God's forgiveness.
121.He was baptized by Pentecostal Pastor Carl Lentz of Hillsong Church New York, who is a close friend, on January 9, 2014, after a born again experience.

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POP SENSATION JUSTIN BIEBER- EARLY LIFE AND RISE TO FAME

Justin Drew Bieber was born on March 1, 1994, in London, Ontario, at St Joseph's Hospital,and was raised in Stratford, Ontario. He is the only child of Jeremy Jack Bieber and Patricia "Pattie" Mallette. Bieber's parents were never married. Pattie, who was underaged at the time of giving birth, raised her son with the help of her mother, Diane, and stepfather, Bruce. His mother is of French-Canadian descent; his paternal great-grandfather was of German ancestry, and his other roots are English, Scottish and Irish.

Through Jeremy, Bieber has two younger half-siblings, Jazmyn (born 2009) and Jaxon (born 2010). Pattie worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raising Bieber as a single mother in low-income housing. Bieber has maintained contact with his father.
Bieber attended a French-language immersion elementary school in Stratford, the Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School.
Growing up, he learned to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet. He graduated from high school in Stratford, Ontario, the St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in 2012 with a 4.0 GPA. In early 2007, aged 12, Bieber sang Ne-Yo's "So Sick" for a local singing competition in Stratford and was placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see. She continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Bieber's popularity on the site grew.

He was discovered on YouTube by manager Scooter Braun, a former So So Def marketing executive, after Bieber began posting homemade videos from his 2007 second-place contestant stint on a local singing competition.
Usher had "Star Search" to launch him out of obscurity at age 13. His new protégé, Justin Bieber, had YouTube. At 12, Bieber was posting homemade videos of himself on YouTube and industry insiders starting taking notice.
Bieber's first single, "One Time", was released to radio while Bieber was still recording his debut album. The song reached number 12 on the Canadian Hot 100 during its first week of release in July 2009 and later peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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