Katy Perry A Life Of Fireworks

Author : Chloe Govan
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127276
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Katy Perry: A Life of Fireworks written by Chloe Govan and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Katy made her transformation from demure choir girl to sexy household name.Accounts of the conflict Katy had growing up with a deeply religious minister as a father and her penchant for skimpy attention-grabbing outfits and subversive lyrics. Details the story of her ill-fated early career, including an early gospel album released by a small record company which went bankrupt soon afterwards and another signing to Columbia Records, who she rejected on accounts of attempts to mould her into a manufactured pop artist. Her eventual rise to fame and her controversial first chart-topping single I Kissed A Girl, her bisexual affair and the struggle Katy faced between her sexuality and her religious background. Exclusive stories revealing the making of her albums.Tales of the love affair and marriage to notorious television presenter Russell Brand.Exclusive interviews with Katy’s religious mentors, friends, co-songwriters, producers video directors, journalists, fellow journalists and teachers.ABOUT THE AUTHORChloe Govan has written about travel, lifestyle and music for a variety of publications around the world including Travel Weekly, the Times and Real Travel, where she has a monthly column. Her next book is a biography on Amy Winehouse, due out in the Autumn of 2011.

Author : Jo Berry
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409133621
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Katy Perry written by Jo Berry and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifting the lid on the chart-topping, girl-kissing, trend-setting princess of pop In 2006, Katy Perry was on the brink of packing it all in and giving up - Hollywood had almost got the better of her. Two hit albums later and she practically owns the place. The gorgeous singer, best known for her flirty hit 'I Kissed a Girl', likes to flaunt her feminine side with inch-long eyelashes, maraschino-cherry lips, and playful retro outfits like polka-dotted hot pants and tube dresses, but Katy's path to fame was far bumpier than her glamtastic image lets on. Raised in Santa Barbara, California, she started her musical career in the church, her parents were both born-again Christian pastors. Her first album, released in 2001, was Christian gospel and the rules for her early years were 'no pop, no snacks, no boys'. At 16 she dropped out of high school and made the move to L.A., and her life was forever changed. It took more than eight years of false starts, winning and losing three record contracts, before she scored the million-selling album One of the Boys. But once `Ur So Gay' was declared by Madonna as her song of the year, 'I Kissed a Girl' ignited all that controversy, and Katy met her husband-to-be Russell Brand and so became one half of one of the most exciting and endearing Hollywood couples, Katy Perry was propelled to the top of the Hollywood A list. Jo Berry's insightful and honest biography reveals the incredible story of the life and loves of the artist and performer Katy Perry.

Author : C. F. Earl
Publisher : Village Earth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781625240972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Katy Perry written by C. F. Earl and published by Village Earth Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few music stars are more popular and successful than pop singer Katy Perry. With huge hits like "Firework" and "Roar," the bubbly and candy-colored Katy has taken over the music world in just a few short years. Learn about the life of one of pop's biggest stars. Discover how Katy went from strumming her guitar alone to singing for sold out concerts filled with fans.

Author : Chloé Govan
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1783230037
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maroon 5: Shooting For the Stars written by Chloé Govan and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maroon 5: Shooting For The Stars uncovers intimate details of the lives and backgrounds of all band members of Maroon 5. Also revealed is the story of their struggle to find early success in the music industry as Kara’s Flowers as well as exclusive interviews with school friends which provide the inside story on this troubled time in the ambitious foursome’s lives. The inside story on Kara’s Flowers reveals the woman who inspired the band’s name and exclusively reveals her relationship with singer Adam Levine. Maroon 5: Shooting For The Stars includes details on Adam’s troubled relationship with Vogue editor-to-be, Jane Herman, and how their break-up influenced many tracks on the album Songs About Jane and his other high profile relationships with, amongst others, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, Jessica Simpson and the Russian Victoria’s Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna, with whom he posed naked on the cover of Vogue. Maroon 5: Shooting For The Stars also features behind the scenes accounts of the group’s tours with artists including the Rolling Stones as well as the evolution of the band across their four albums, including the inside story behind collaborations with Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys and Kanye West. The book also touches on some of the more sensitive subjects around the band members, including the relentless bullying endured by the Levine family after Adam’s brother came out as gay, and Adam’s later campaigns to raise awareness of LGBT right. The lives and backgrounds of all band members will be revealed in depth in the incredibly compelling and revealing tell-all book.

Author : Kimberly Dillon Summers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Katy Perry written by Kimberly Dillon Summers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography reveals the life story, musical style, personality, lyrics, and fashion of Katy Perry—the elements that have catapulted her to stardom and made her a 21st-century pop music icon. Katy Perry: A Biography examines who the young woman behind the hit songs, explicit lyrics, racy album covers, unconventional dress, and sometimes odd behavior really is. Through this nine-chapter narration of Perry's life, readers will gain insight into all stages of her development as a person and as a performer, from her early childhood, to her attempts to break out within the Christian music genre, to her pop music stardom and acting career. The book can be used as both a source of information for an essay or report, and as an easy-to-use guide to find answers to specific questions. It will also be of great interest to any reader who appreciates pop music and wants to know more about Katy Perry—where she came from, who she is today, and the fascinating journey and inspirational tale of her rise to becoming one of the hottest female pop stars of the 21st century.

Author : Isoul Harris
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127993
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicki Minaj: Hip Pop Moments 4 Life written by Isoul Harris and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip Pop Moments 4 Life explores Onika Tanya Maraj's spectacular transformation from early childhood in Trinidad via her days as an unknown rapper on the New York underground scene to fully-fledged songwriter, international star and chart topper. With exhaustive research, exclusive quotes, insider information and a never-before-published interview with Nicki Minaj herself, this smart book presents every aspect of the rapper's life: the complicated relationship with her father; the real story behind her unbelievable record deal with Lil Wayne and Young Money Records; and why she has been ambiguous about her sexuality. The author explores all of this and much more in a book packed with juicy news and beautiful pictures: the ultimate guide to all things Minaj.

Author : Chloe Govan
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127446
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rihanna: Rebel Flower written by Chloe Govan and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rihanna has sold over 15 million albums and 45 million singles world-wide. She has won 4 Grammy Awards and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Female Artist. Her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad was nominated for nine Grammy Awards and featured the world-wide number one single Umbrella. She is currently on her Last Girl on Earth 2011 World Tour. Reveals her unhappy childhood watching severe violence between her mother and her crack cocaine father. Her wild child past that earned her the nickname of Rebel Flower. How she found it therapeutic after her parents’ troubled marriage to join the army. Her transformation from schoolgirl Robyn Fenty to one of the most successful R&B artists in the world. Her turbulent relationship with singer Chris Brown which resulted in a photograph of her battered and bruised face making headlines all over the world. Exclusive interviews with Rihanna’s old schoolfriends, producers, songwriters, video directors, journalists who witnessed her transformation over the years and many others.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791075818
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Kerouac's On the Road written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Author : Chloe Govan
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127942
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Destiny & Beyond: The Kelly Rowland Story written by Chloe Govan and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. She sold forty million albums and twenty million singles with the group, and more than four million solo albums and eighteen million solo singles. This biography details her childhood strife with an alcoholic – and then absent – father, life on the edge as a teenage R&B star in Destiny’s Child, an ill-fated early solo career and finally finding success on her own, as well as taking centre stage as a judge on X-Factor.Kelly’s rocky childhood growing up in Houston as the only black girl in her school. How her poverty-stricken family was torn apart and she and her mother fled their alcoholic father when she was seven, never to see him again. Details the highs and lows of being in Destiny’s Child, the cat-fights, the accusations of favouritism, the hours of training and the lowdown on life in what would soon become, according to the 2005 World Music Awards, the world’s best-selling girl group of all time. Kelly’s struggle to shine while hiding in her band mate’s Beyonce’s shadow and her endurance of rumours that Mathew Knowles – whom she’d moved in with – was her father. An in depth look at Kelly’s early solo career (including her first two albums), her collaborations and her acting career as both a singer in sitcoms and an actress in worldwide box office hit films. Kelly’s split from Beyonce’s father as manager and the reasons behind it, her change in musical style and her dramatic decision not to have Beyonce involved with her third album, unlike previous solo efforts to which her ex-band mate contributed. Recording her third solo album in a period of insecurity when she’d been without a record label for over a year and feared never getting a deal again. Kelly’s success as a Number 1 selling artist and her time as a UK X-Factor judge as she becomes just as much a big name in the UK as she is in the USA.

Author : Marc Shapiro
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1783233354
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorde written by Marc Shapiro and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorde won two Grammys earlier this year for her song 'Royals,' which has captivated audiences all over the world and skyrocketed her from obscurity to superstardom. Quite an accomplishment for a girl who just turned 17. Lorde is the voice of her generation, a head-strong, determined young woman who knows what she wants and has known how she was going to get it from an early age. She's a renowned feminist, a performer with a Minimalist/Goth/Electropop stye that is as haunting as it is enticing and thought-provoking. She still lives at home, she still does the dishes and she still goes to school. Lorde is particularly intriguing because she is so contrary to everything that pop music has become. She is a true intellect whose songs have been guided by great authors and deep thinkers rather than the predictable template of current pop music. She's smart, creative, a true individual -- and only 17. Stories that are too good to be true, but are, makes Shapiro's biography of Lorde truly something special.