Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in Santa Barbara, California[6] to devout Pentecostal pastors Keith Hudson and Mary Perry. She is the second of their three children.[7] She has an older sister named Angela Hudson and a younger brother named David Hudson.[8] Mary's half-brother was director Frank Perry.[9]
As a child, Perry attended Christian schools and camps.[7] She was incorporated into her parents' ministry,[7] singing in the church between the ages of nine and seventeen.[10] She grew up listening to gospel music,[11][12]
and in an interview she said, "Growing up I wasn’t really allowed to
listen to a whole lot of what my mom would call, secular music,"[10] She learned how to dance in a recreation building in Santa Barbara. She was taught by seasoned dancers and began with swing, Lindy Hop, and jitterbug.[13] She took her GED during her freshman year at Dos Pueblos High School and decided to leave school in the pursuit of a career in music.[14]
Perry initially started singing "because [she] was at that point in
[her] childhood where [she] was copycatting [her] sister and everything
she [would do]."[14]
Her sister Angela practiced with cassette tapes, while Perry took the
tapes herself when her sister was not around. She rehearsed the songs
and performed them in front of her parents, who suggested she take vocal
coaching. She grabbed the opportunity and began taking lessons at the
age of nine and continued until she was sixteen.
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