Kate Perry finds meditation helps her stay fresh

Kate Perry finds Transcendental Meditation helps her stay fresh

These days Kate Perry is recognised as one of the world's top rock stars. It wasn't always that way though. Coming from a born again Christian family Kate grew up in a sheltered background. She started taking vocal lessons and at 13 began to play the guitar and write her own songs. At 15, her mother chaperoned her on trips to Nashville, where she recorded an album but it only sold 200 copies. Kate was disappointed but determined that her music would be successful.

She worked hard setting herself the goal to become successful by age 25, and over the next few years was signed up and dropped by several record companies. However her first big breakthrough happened when she was 23, with her single "I Kissed a Girl" which topped the charts in 15 countries and collected a huge fan base, including her husband Russell Brand. The couple met in 2009 and felt an instant rapport. They were engaged after 3 months. Ever since then, Kate remarks, with a mischievous grin, "there hasn't been a dull moment".

It was Russell who introduced Kate to Transcendental Meditation, which she finds really helpful. She comments: "It's not like napping - you're totally awake - but you come out of it really fresh." Russell is also a great fan of Transcendental Meditation, and has credits it with helping him to achieve a healthy and stable sense of well-being.

Both Kate and Russell recently joined forces with film director, David Lynch, to help launch a project in the US, Operation Warrior Wellness. The project will help war veterans learn Transcendental Meditation, to help eliminate anxiety and ease Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

This year has been an exceptionally busy one for Kate, so far, as she has already visited Europe (including gigs from March to April in the UK) followed by Australia and New Zealand in May. She has scheduled visits to many cities in the US from June to September, and then back to the UK in October/November. This hectic schedule is to promote her latest album Teenage Dream, which has been a huge success. Several of the songs from the album, including Californian Gurls, and Firework, have been released as singles, which have topped the charts.

Kate is very much artistically involved in all her projects (not just in the colourful clothes she wears, which often have a humorous aspect, and are reminiscent of different decades) but especially in writing her own songs and playing the guitar. She even diversified into the fragrance market last autumn, producing a perfume called Purr, which comes in a cat shaped bottle and has been described as - like the singer herself - playful yet sophisticated!

We wish Kate well with the remainder of her tour and continued success in the future.

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