Profession- Musician, songwriter and singer

“The Beatles were the soundtrack to my life. When the Beatles came along, life changed, the planets all shifted somehow.”

—Don Henley

Born as Donald Hugh Henley, is best known as a founding member of the Eagles. He is better known as Don Henley. Don is an American Singer, songwriter and a drummer.

Early life and career

Henley, the son of Hughlene (McWhorter) and C. J. Henley, was born on July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas, United States. He grew up in Linden (small Texas town in northeast).  His father was the owner of an auto parts store and his mother was a teacher. Henley’s father was dying from heart and arterial disease so he left his school to spend time with him. Henley graduated from high school in 1965. In his high school he formed a band called The Four Speeds with his childhood friends Richard Bowden and Jerry Surratt. Then he attended the Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. After that Henley enrolled himself in North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, from 1967 to 1969. After completing his education in North Texas State University he transferred to Los Angeles in 1970. Don in Los Angeles recorded an album with Shiloh, his early band. Soon after that Don Henley met Glenn Frey. Meeting her proved to be the turning point in his life. Initially, Don and Glen became the member of the Linda Ronstadt’s backup band. After two months of joining Linda Ronstadt’s backup band they formed Eagles along with Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.

Eagle’s released their first album including “Take it easy” in 1972, which was formed in September 1971. As Henley is a singer, so he also performed as a lead vocalist in many Eagles popular songs. The list includes “Desperado”, “Witchy Woman”, “Best of My Love”, “One of These Nights”, “Hotel California”, “The Long Run”, “Life in the Fast Lane” and “Wasted Time”. With this, the band became so popular and became the history as they were the highest selling American band in U.S. history. They also made their home among the top 5 overall best-selling bands of all time in America.

Unfortunately in 1980 during the recording of The Long Run, the band Eagles was knocked to pieces because of the personal tensions among them. But consequently in the year 1994, the band Eagles again reunited and again started releasing albums. Their latest album released was Long Road Out of Eden in 2007.

Instruments- Vocals, Drums, Keyboard, Guitar, synthesizers and percussions.

After splitting up with Eagles, Henley alone started his career as a solo artist. He with his then girlfriend Stevie Nicks in 1981 had duetted on “Leather and Lace” (her Adult Contemporary hit). Henley’s first solo album I Can’t Stand Still was released in 1982. His first album didn’t become so popular and was a moderate seller. Don’s single Dirty Laundry” became so popular that it earned a Gold-certified single in 1983 by selling over a million copies in the US. It also reached #3 on Billboard Hot 100. Henley also sang a song for the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) titled “Love Rules”. His next single release was “The Boys of Summer”, which was again a hit reaching the number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. His several other hits are All She Wants to Do Is Dance” (reaching # 9 on Hot 100), “Not Enough Love in the World” ( reached #34 on Hot 100) and “Sunset Grill” (reached #22 on Hot 100).  Henley then sang a song “Who Owns This Place?” for movie The Color of Money in 1986. The soundtrack of movie The Color of Money became so popular and was positioned #3.

After three years in 1989, Don released his next album named The End of the Innocence.  After that he released “The Heart of the Matter”, “The Last Worthless Evening” and “New York Minute” which again gained a lot of popularity. In addition with his singing Don Henley also appeared on on MTV’s Unplugged series. In 1995, to promote his album Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits, he released a next single titled “The Garden of Allah”.

Henley’s singing career got a pause when Geffen Records company filed a case against him. During that hiatus Don didn’t stop singing and recorded a few songs such as “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” for the film Leap of Faith, provided background vocals for country star Trisha Yearwood’s hit single “Walkaway Joe”, and duetted with Patty Smyth on “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough” and Roger Waters on “Watching TV” on Waters’ Amused to Death album, in 1992.

In 2000 he released his next album Inside Job and after two years a live DVD entitled Don Henley: Live Inside Job was also released in 2002.

Genres- Rock, Pop

Personal life

Don Henley, the most recognizable voices in the world of music got in his first relationship with Stevie Nicks in late 1970s. After breaking up with Nicks, Don dated actress/model Lois Chiles for three long years. He then got committed to actress Maren Jensen. Moreover, he dedicated his first solo I Can’t Stand Still to his then girlfriend Maren. They broke up in the year 1986. After this he didn’t get into any relationship. After a long time, in the year 1995, he got married to Sharon Summerall (former model, Texas). He also wrote a song for Sharon titled “Everything Is Different Now” from the album Inside Job. Don has three children (two girls and 1 boy) with Sharon. Also, he has a daughter from his previous relationship.

Awards

The Henley’s band Eagles have won six Grammy awards. Besides receiving awards for his band albums, Don received awards for his solo albums too. He won two Grammy awards and five MTV Video Music Awards. His single “The Boys of Summer” received several MTV Video Music Awards including Best Video of the Year. His first Grammy award was for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song “The Boys of Summer”. Henley’s second Grammy award was for the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance  in 1990 for the album The End of Innocence.

Assets owned by him

He has a house of worth $7,609,610 located in Dallas, Texas. According to dmagazine, Don Henley’s house has been ranked 99 in the list of 100 most expensive houses in Dallas. It has 6-bed rooms, 10-bath rooms and is a 13,845 sq ft home built in 1996.

Rich quotes

• “I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don’t know why.”
• “I have things that I am interested in, and that’s usually what comes out on the album.”
• “I would rather take a long time and make a record with eight or ten good songs on it than to rush one out with only one or two good songs on it, which is what I find to be the case most of the time.”
• “I’m always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I’ve got pieces of paper all over my house.”
• “I’m not scary; I’m just opinionated.”

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George Michael was born on 25 June 1963 in East Finchley, London, England. His birth name is Georgies Kyriacos Panagiotou. He is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is known as the blue-eyed soul singer. His singing is famous all over the world. He received a lot of appreciation and rewards from all over the world and he rose to superstardom during 1980s and 1990s and is one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Not only is this, he has sold over 100 million copies of his records which is really a big achievement for his career in the year 2010. In the year 1987, his solo debut album Faith was released who alone, 20 million copies has been sold worldwide. Moreover, he has garnered seven number one singles in the UK on the billboard Hot 100 and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. Also, in the year 2008, he was ranked by the Billboard magazine at the 40^th position as the most successful artist on the Billboard Got 100 Top All-Time Artist list. He also won numerous other awards in the field of singing and won three Brit awards throughout his career. Not only is this, he also won Best British Male award twice, four MTV Video Music award and three American Music awards and also the most important one two Grammy awards. In the year 2004, Radio Academy named him as the most played artist on the British audio in the period of 1984-2004.

Life:

He was born to Kyriacos Panayiotou, who was a Cypriot restrauner and changed his name to Jack Panis , later on he moved to England in 1990s and mother, Lesly Angold who was an English Dancer. Talking about his education life, he attended Kingsbury High School and later attended the Bushey Meads School in the neighboring town of Bushy when his family moved to Radlett, Hertfordshire. At a very young age, he got involved in music and played in DJ, schools and clubs also.

House:

George Michael is a very rich personality of the era. His net worth is $90 million. He owns very luxurious home called Whale Beach house which is located in the Palm Beach in Australia. This plush home is worth $6,000,000 and has stunning features, the extraordinary features include five bedrooms, five full and two half bathrooms. Not only is this, it also has an expensive deck and gourmet kitchen, lap pool, glass walls and many more. Moreover, he also owns a another luxurious home, Victorian corner which is located in South Kensington which is worth $8.25 million and is also named ax Goldman Sachs Alley which is one of the expensive houses in Britain. It is spread in across 4250 square feet area and has beautiful features which include gorgeous garden and furnished furniture. Interiors are really unique and pretty.

Philanthropy:

George Michael is a very good hearted man and likes to invest his money in good causes. He contribute to various organizations, first one in the list is Gross-Michael Foundation which was founded by him only, along with Kenny Goss in the year 2007. The foundations aims at effective contributions to Dalla’s flourishing artistic community and increasing the public’s familiarity with the emerging British artists. Moreover, Since its inception the organization has awarded over $50,000 in scholarships to the arts and music students. Next one on the list is Red Cross organization which is devoted to bring a spark of hope and respite to the people who have witnessed disasters. Not only is this, the foundation informs the general public about the diverse techniques to counter emergencies in a better and controlled manner. Apart from these organizations, he is also active in Meals on Wheels Association of America which is abbreviated as MOWAA, resenting US people who offer meal services to the hungry and the foundation works to achieve its goal of physical, nutritional, social and economic enhancement of vulnerable Americans. He is involved in Elton John AIDS Foundation which is really doing a good job and accumulate funds to encourage the revolutionary HIV prevention programs, provide superior health care services to those suffering from the disease, and creating ample public services to eliminate the disgrace and prejudice connected with AIDS. The foundation till now has managed to collect $225 million for the HIV prevention programs running around the sphere.

Personality:

George Michele is the icon of brands and his personality is very rich going. He seems to be in Ray-Ban RB 3211 sunglasses which looks cool on him and is really an expensive brand. He was also spotted in Gucci 2785 during the finale of American Idol Season 7. Gucci is a luxurious and expensive brand today and is known as the symbol of status and wealth. The elegant design, fancy material and classy styles contribute to this dreamy sunglass. He also spotted in Nike products like cap and T-shirts. Apart from the brands, he also loves to drive automobiles. He owns a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano which is an exotic sports car that has latest front engine and 12 cylinder. Ferrari claims that this sports car can reach from zero speed to 60mph in just 3.7 seconds.

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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on 9 August 1963 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S. She is an American recording artist, singer, actress, producer and model. She is a famous singer and stunned everyone by her breakthrough performance. She won Guinness World Records in the year 2009. Not only is this, she is the most awarded female act of all time. Also, she is one of the world’s best-selling music artists who have sold over 200 million records worldwide. Overall, she has released six studio albums, one holiday album and three movie soundtrack album. Moreover, on all the albums, she has diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Talking about more of her life, she has seven consecutive no 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She is counted after Elton John and it is reported that she is the only women who have two number 1 Billboard 200 awards on the Billboard magazine year end charts. Her debut album, Whitney Houston was released in the year 1985 which was considered as the best-selling debut album by a woman in the history this album was ranked on 254 on the magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time.

Early Life

Whitney Houston belongs to middle-income family. She was the second child of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston Jr. and a singer Cissy Houston. Moreover, she has two older brothers who are also a singer. Talking about her descent, she is African American, Native American and Dutch. She was very much dedicated towards her career and only at the age of 11, she started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. “Guide Me. O Thou Great Jehovah” was her first solo performance in the Church. Talking about her studies, she attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy school when she was a teenager. Moreover, her teenage days were spent in touring nights at the clubs along with her mother. A photographer, Carnegie Hall saw her singing with her mother and in the year 1980 she started working as a fashion model with her. In the year 1983, she was appeared as the lead vocalist on Paul Jabara album entitled Paul Jabara and Friends.

Awards and Achievements

Whitney Houston has received a number of awards and appreciation all over the world. overall, she has received two Emmy Awards, six Grammy awards, 30 Billboard awards, 22 American Music awards and a total of 415 career awards. This is really a breakthrough record. Not only is this, she is also named in Guinness World Records. I the year 1994, she got the most WMAs in a single year winning five awards at the 6^th world music awards. In the year 2003, she was on number three on VH1s list of “50 Greatest Women of the Video Era” after Madonna and Janet Jackson. On the list of “200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of all the Time” and ranked on number 116. In the year 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artist and she was ranked on number nine. She was ranked number three in the year 2010, when Billboard released it “Top 50 R&B Hip-Hop Artists of the past 25 years”. Not only is this, by the Rolling Stone magazine, she was on number 1 of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In the year 2004, Billboard picked the success of her first release on the charts of 110 Musical Milestone in the history. In the year 2001, she was the first artist to be a given a BET Lifetime Achievement Award. Moreover, she was on fourth number for best-selling female artist in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America and at that time her 55 million copies were sold all over the world. Her breakthrough performance is famous all over the world.

Richness

Whitney Houston is a very rich personality. Her net worth is $5 million. She owns a very lavish home in New Jersey. It is worth 5 million dollar. It is spread in 12,561 square feet area. This mansion has been used for filming the Bobby Brown’s reality series in the year 2005. This luxurious home has beautiful features with five bedrooms and five bathrooms. It has a separate dining room and extraordinary outside view. Apart from this, she also owns a East Orange home in New Jersey. This home has ample fencing and an undersized entrance. This beautiful lady earns a lot from her hard work. Moreover, she is liked to spend her money in good cause. She is involved in Fight Night Foundation which contributes significant dollars for charities for the people in need, by the active involvement of celebrities and qualified athletes from all over the country. Another non-profit organization is “Children’s defense fund” which aims at providing every child with a fair start in life and a thriving passage to adulthood without facing any problems. He is also actively involved with “Red Cross” foundation which aims at offering relief to the victims of disasters. Not only is this, he seems active in “United Service Organization” which provides self-belief, maturity and recreation-type services to the military forces. UNCF “United Negro College Fund” is another American philanthropic organization which provides student prestigious scholarships and internships.

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 INTRODUCTION

Fantasia Monique Barrino was born on June 30, 1984. She is an American R&B/ soul singer and popular with the name of Fantasia. In 2004, she rose to fame as the winner of the American Idol third season, when she was just 19 years old. Following her victory she released her debut single ‘I Believe’ which secured number 1 position on ‘Billboard Hot 100’, due to which she became the first recording artist in history who had achieved first place with a debut single.  Subsequently, her first debut album ‘Free Yourself’ was released, which was certified Platinum and received four Grammy nominations.

CHILD HISTORY

Life had never been easy for Barrino but she was not a quitter. She belongs to a musician family, who traveled and performed in the Carolinas and elsewhere in the American South and recorded the CD ‘Miracles’ for a local label. She is born and raised in High Point, North Caolina, with her mother and father named Diane and Joseph Barrino. She has got precious gifts of singing, so she began to sing in church at the age of 5. The young Fantasia had an astonishing talent that become the center of attention whenever the family band performed. Her mother is proud of her daughter’s unbelievable singing gifts, but her father opinion was opposite of her mother’s. Perhaps the great influence on her was of her grandmother, Addie (Loretta Devine), a preacher who sternly lectured her about taking responsibility of the family and pursuing her dreams.Despite her travels, she had done her schooling from Andrews High School at High Point, where she had a rough year. She was once raped by a classmate and thus dropped out of the school. At that time she was only sixteen years old when she got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter.  So decided lead a life of single struggling mother.

PERSONAL LIFE

Her life has seen lots of ups and downs. In September 2005, In September 2005, fantasia published a book, titled ‘Life Is Not A Fairy Tale’. The Book became very much popular in no time and became the selling book according to New York Times. The book was then turned into a film directed by ‘Debbie Allen’, which had also became famous. Due to some financial crisis, Barrino’s 6,600-square-foot,lakefront home in Charlotte’s was put for auction. In her family, her uncles, The Barrino brothers, were a 1970′s R&B band and her brother is Grand Hustle recording artist ‘Ricco Barrino’. In 2010 she had some court issues related to her long relationship with ‘Antwaun Cook’. And in mid of 2010, she was hospitalized due to overdosing on aspirin, though the injuries were not life threatening. In August 2011, she announced a second pregnancy during a charity, but she did not reveal the name of the father. And in December she gave birth to a boy ‘Della Xavier Barrino’. Her father and grandfather were gospel singers. Her brothers Ricco and Jojo formed the Infinite 3 group and her cousins Cedric and Joe Hailey had founded the group ‘Jodeci’.

CAREER LIFE

Despite having lots of struggles, she had achieved lots of success in her life. After winning the American Idol season 3, her life had boarded into the train of success. She had achieved instant success on the R&B and pop charts, though she was a single teenage mother. Her first single “I Believe” ranked number #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.  Her first album ‘Free yourself’ when released, broken all records of success and millions copies of it were sold within 2 months. In 2005 she had given her autobiography ‘Life is not a fairy tale’, which had earned a lot of praise and had become the bestseller within no time. This book was then turned into a film directed by ‘Debie Allen’ and became second most watched shows on television. She  had created 3 top 20 R&B singles, and also nominated for 3 Grammy awards. In December appeared  the Barrino’s second highly popular, self titled, album which had contribution from many other singers also. Another production of hers was “Hood Boy” which is a R&B hit.

 AMERICAN IDOL

American Idol, season 3 was the turning page in her life. Fantasia Barrino made a starting impact on the judges and the audience of the show. Later in the shoe she performed ’Summertime’, which was so emotional that it left her in tears. On the finale, over sixty-five millions votes were casted, and in the end Fantasia defeated first runner up ‘Diana DeGarmo’ by 1.3 million votes. Thus at the age of nineteen, she was the youngest American Idol.

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Fantasia Monique Barrino, who is known as the Fantasia has an estimated net worth of $275 million. Her richness not limited to substantial things, but she owes profit to smart stock investments and many offers of Cover Girl cosmetics. The American singer-actress has several restaurants like the ‘Fat Barrino burger’ chain in Washington, a football team, the ‘High Point Angels’, has introduced her own brand of Vodka, ‘Pure Wonderbarrino’, dealing with the junior markets with a top selling perfume, ‘With Love from Fantasia’, and have a fashion line called ‘Fantasia Barrino Seduction’. She also has many substantial property holdings and a several no of bungalows but one of them was recently put to auction. According to “People With Money’s”, she(29 year old) has spotted no.1 position in top 10 highest paid singers for year 2014 with an estimated combined earnings of $96 million.

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‘CRANK THAT’, these two words are owned by the one and only god like rapper soulja boy. DeAndre Cortez Way a.k.a soulja boy, at age of 14 was shifted to town of Batesville, Mississippi, with his father, who provided him a recording studio to explore his musical ambitions and the outcome was that the song “CRANK THAT” was on the tongue of everyone and topped the U.S Billboard charts and he earned $7 million that year. He was on the #18 on the famous business magazine “FORBES” of HIP-HOP Cash kings of the year 2010. Soulja boy is a rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. EARLY LIFE Deandre Cortez way was born in Chicago, Illinois, United states on July 28, 1990 but he was moved to Atlanta at the age of six. He was born with an inborn talent of rap. In November 2005, he uploaded his songs on sound click and after getting a lot of rave reviews, he uploaded his songs on two biggest platforms, YOUTUBE AND MYSPACE. In March 2007, he recorded his song that made him rich, CRANK THAT, and released his first independent album name “Unsigned and still major: Da album before da album” and he ended up with a deal to sign up with interscope records.

SOULJA BOY HOMES AND CARS

Soulja boy owns a RC Lamborghini covered with diamonds which costs around $250,000.He owns a Chrysler 300, Bugatti, Bentley musslane, Porsche 991.He owns a home in Atlanta.

CAREER

His debut album: Souljaboytellem.com was on #4 on the US Billboard chart of hot 100 and hot ringmaster charts which was released in the United States on October 2nd.Soulja boy never expected that his song “Crank that” will take him this far and his song got nominated for the Grammy awards but he lost to Kayne west and T-Pain’s GOOD LIFE. Soulja boy was successfully spreading a new trend in hip-hop. 2008-2009: Soulja released a sequel to his album souljaboytellem.com which was named isouljaboytellem but this album was not a hit and some even disliked it and this album got negative critical reception from the critics. Soulja boy now released a song KISS ME THROUGH THE PHONE, with Sammy and this song was a hit and it peaked #3 on billboard hot 100. 2009-2010: In the year 2009 he released his album “The DeAndre Way” and on July 8, 2010 he released his single THE PRETTY SWAG which was on #34 on billboard hot 100 and was #6 on Hot R&B songs list and then his second single which was “BLOWING ME KISSES” was released instead of “speakers going hammer” but it was released later on October 19, 2010. OTHER CAREERS-On March 5, 2008, he released his official clothing line known as S.O.D CLOTHING and he also released his official shoes line named as YUMS.Some months later on Feb, 2012 soulja boy released another line he created BLVD.

PERSONAL LIFE

Soulja boy was a target of many controversies and has faced many tragedies in life. On December 9, 2007 he was sued by William Lyons a.k.a souljha boy for using his stage name because he created this name back in 1996. In October, 2009, he was arrested because when he was shooting a film in an abandoned house he ran away from the police, so he ran away from the police and was arrested on account of obstruction and trespassing and then he was 

released for $550. On October 18, 2011 he was travelling in his car with his four other friends and was investigated by the police and four ounces of marijuana was found but he was released on the same day.

TRAGEDIES

Way has also faced various tragedies in his life such as once he was robbed , beaten and assaulted badly in his home .Way faced a really intense and a difficult situation as he was injured severly.Four or five people came with masks carrying AK-47 and pistols and assaulted him. This incident happened on December 30, 2008 when he came late at night after attending an album release party and he was recording songs when the masked persons came and tried to kill him. On the Night of March 22, 2011 his little brother “Deion Jenkins” was killed in a car crash.

Controversies

Way has been a target of many controversies. Some videos of soulja boy had explicit, violent and sexual content which was banned from some school dances. On December 9, 2008 Charles Hamilton mentioned that way was making it harder to get the new artists signed. On February 2,he challenged Bow Vow to a race in their Lamborghini’s and said that bow vow’s Lamborghini was rental but later their dispute was sorted out on phone. In the year 2011, his song “Let’s be real” was a hit for the biggest controversy because the lyrics of the song said a lot against FBI and army troops and some of the part of his lyrics said that the army troops are fighting for nothing. But later on he apologized for writing these kinds of lines.

LEGACY

DeAndre Cortez Way a.k.a Soulja boy is a visionary artist and he changed the meaning of hip-hop and rap by his music.His song “Crank that” gathered so much attention and he became the king of hip-hop. You can love him or hate him but you can’t ignore him.

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Profession/Career: Singer, Song Writer, Business Woman, Actress, Philanthropist

Katy Perry, the name itself is enough to grab your attention. No need of any introduction to her self made stature. She is a rage in every nook and corner of the music world. She is the first female to achieve five number one Hot 100 songs from one album. This feat is enough to declare her the queen of this industry.

Musical Voyage

Born in October 26, 1984, this bluish grey eyed girl was destined to set the stage on fire. Katheryn Elizabeth Katy Hudson popularly known as Katy Perry is renowned for her songs that rules everyone’s hearts. Perry was brought up in a strict Christian home, listening only to Christian music. During her freshman year of high school, she decided to take music as her career and dropped out of school. At 15, her church singing attracted the attention of musicians from Nashville and was eventually signed to a Christian music label where she recorded her first album. Although it was not successful, it marked the entry of the singer who was about to conquer the industry in few years. In 2007, she got a breakthrough with ‘one of the boys’. From then there was no turning back and she went along with big hits like: I kissed a girl, Hot n Cold, Teenage Dream, Thinking of you and the latest one being The Prism. She also ventured into the film industry and shared her voice for Smurfs and Smurfs 2.

Net worth

Katy Perry has a net worth of around $75 million. In 2012 alone, she earned nearly $44 million from album sales, merchandise, touring and endorsements. Perry was ranked at number fourteen on Billboard’s list of top money makers of 2011. As on November 2013, she had sold over 11 million albums and 81 million singles worldwide and her singles are amongst the best selling worldwide. In February 2011, Perry embarked on an extensive world tour in support to Teenage Dream titled ‘California Dreams Tour’. It earned over $59 million and was huge and a successful venture. Her autobiographical documentary movie Katy Perry: Part of Me was released in July 2012 and grossed $30 million worldwide.

Annual earnings according to Forbes:
2012: $45 million
2011: $44 million

She also has bagged many endorsements to her pockets. A whopping $4 million deal with Guthy Renker LLC to endorse their Proactiv acne products. She has also made fortune with endorsement deals with companies such as Good Hair Day (GHD), Pop chips, and Electronic Arts (The Sims video game). Katy launched her own fragrance line called “Purr”. The perfume became a instant hit and the following year she released “Meow”.Some of her richy rich possessions are her houses and her craze for cars.

Hollywood hills estate:

Katy and her partner Russell Brand bought the Hollywood hills home for a sum of $6.5 million. This Spanish style lavish home is spread over an area of 8,835 square feet and is embellished with stunning furniture and mind blowing view of the nature. However after her divorce, this plush house was sold off.

TriBeca Penthouse:

Katy bought this Penthouse for $2.7 million with her partner Russell. Located in New York, USA this house boasts of two luxurious bedrooms and well emblazed rooms and a eye-catching view from the terrace.

Pink Smart Car:

Reflecting her style statement in her vintage dress, this car compliments her in every way. Her name painted on one side of this car, it’s pretty much sure to let everyone knowing who’s in the driver seat. This two seated vehicle is trendy and fun to ride.

Audi A5:

In 2009, this songbird bought this classy black Audi A5. This car compliments her glamorous and exquisite look. She was once spotted having food inside this comfy vehicle.

Records are just a number

When you are such a big star like Katy Perry, records are just like a number. In 2008, her song ‘I kissed a Girl’ went on to be on the No.1 Billboard Hot 100 and was eventually certified platinum. She was at the epitome of her success when Teenage Dream became the third album in history to produce six top five hit single. In January 2012, she became the first artist to have five songs sell over 5 million digital units. That year in September it was announced she would take home the ‘Woman of the Year’ award at Billboard’s Women in Music event.

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She married actor Russell Brand in Rajasthan, India in 2010 in a traditional Hindu ceremony. They were almost a perfect couple enjoying their life as cupid struck them hard. But to her dismay, Brand did not seem to be a perfect match for her. She had to accept the life’s harsh truth and move on after their divorce. Presently, her off-on relationship with John Mayer has been doing the rounds.

All for a novel cause

Katy is well known for her charity works and women empowerment support. She raised over $150,000 for donation during her California Dreams Tour. She donated profits from her single “Part of Me” to the charity MusiCares. This eminent star is a generous supporter of “Generosity Water”, an organization formed to eradicate water crisis in developing countries. She even supports “Red Cross” foundation which aims to provide relief to victims of disasters and plan for counter emergencies. She takes a keen interest towards donation and philanthropic activities.

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