Katy Perry is about to obtain the Vanguard Award on the 2024 Video Music Awards on Thursday, September 11, in New York. The 39-year-old pop star is a five-time VMA winner and beforehand hosted the awards present in 2017.
“Katy is a musical powerhouse and true popular culture icon,” Paramount+ president of music Bruce Gillmer stated in a press launch. “Along with her game-changing artistic imaginative and prescient, she has turn out to be a worldwide phenomenon and brought over the world’s greatest levels. Katy’s prowess shall be on full show LIVE on the VMAs with a can’t-miss, career-encompassing efficiency celebrating her greatest moments and chart-topping hits.”
Through the upcoming ceremony, Katy may even carry out a few of her greatest hits, MTV confirmed. Earlier this month, the “Roar” hitmaker dropped her newest single, “Lifetimes,” along with her different single “Girl’s World,” which was launched in July. Each tracks are a part of her upcoming album, Girl’s World, which shall be launched after the VMAs on September 20.
You’re gonna hear me roar as a result of @katyperry IS OUR 2024 #VMA VIDEO VANGUARD!!! 🐯🎇✨
Watch her carry out dwell on Wednesday, September eleventh on @MTV! pic.twitter.com/qcx6ypXmpg
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 15, 2024
Katy’s music profession is hovering to new heights. After closing out her Las Vegas residency in late 2023, she introduced her departure from American Idol earlier this 12 months. The fact competitors collection has since changed the “Firework” artist with Idol alum Carrie Underwood as a decide.
Upon stepping down from her function as a decide, Katy has been spending time along with her household — husband Orlando Bloom and their daughter, Daisy, whom they welcomed in 2020. Katy and the Pirates of the Caribbean star, 47, have been collectively since 2016 and introduced their engagement in 2019. Since then, they’ve been inseparable, and Orlando lately mentioned his relationship with Katy throughout an interview with ABC Information.
“I believe we each meet one another with understanding the place we got here from, what we labored to do, what we needed to do to get to the place we received to, and he or she undoubtedly calls for that I evolve,” he defined., earlier than including, “And I really feel I do the identical for her. … I wouldn’t change it for something.”
Earlier this week, Katy shared an Instagram video, giving followers a glimpse into her and Orlando’s life collectively. The clip featured them leaping out of a helicopter collectively into the ocean.
“Like the celebrities are within the sky you and I’ll discover one another in each single life,” she captioned her publish.