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Katy Perry spoke about her upbringing as the daughter of devout Pentecostal parents who often had to rely on food stamps and food banks to survive.
He grew up in the inner city of Santa Barbara, California, he explained.
—Do you want to talk about food stamps? I can talk about food stamps. Do you want to talk about food banks? “I can talk about food banks,” the Roar singer, 39, said. People.
‘Do you want to talk about busking when you were a teenager, hoping to make $20 to cover yourself? “I can talk about that too,” Perry added.
Her upbringing led her to want to make a big difference in the world beyond her singing career.
Katy, who flew to Australia for Taylor Swift’s concert on Friday in Sydney, and her older sister, Angela Hudson Lerche, founded the Firework Foundation in 2018 as a means to help children from marginalized communities access Arts.
Katy Perry spoke about her upbringing as the daughter of devout Pentecostal parents who often had to rely on food stamps and food banks to survive, pictured in 2021 with her sister Angela Hudson Lerche.
Her upbringing led her to want to make a big difference in the world beyond her singing career, photographed in 2021 at the Baby2Baby Back2School event.
Ángela is the president of the foundation and reflected on how it affects her: ‘Many times it is reminding them that we don’t come from anything either.
‘(Katy) wasn’t born into a musical family that had all this access. She worked so hard for so many years to get to where she is.”
The Firework Foundation has assisted over 400 high school children at Camp Firework.
The children come from areas in and around Los Angeles and while at camp they attend composition classes, choreography sessions, and shoe design workshops.
Katy and Angela help out and lead sessions at the camp, which is a delight for the young fans who attend.
“I wake up with them in the morning and they put whipped cream on me at night,” Perry said. ‘
Kids know me as the girl who sang Roar or Dark Horse, but I hope that (in the end) they (think), “I can live my dreams like Katy Perry, too. She’s just like me, in a lot of silly ways.” “‘
Campers are also taught transcendental meditation to help them manage their mental health.
“We want to support these young people throughout their educational journey,” Perry continued, revealing that several of her former campers have participated in the foundation’s Leaders in Training program.
The training program partners with schools including FIDM for design programs and LAAMP for music programs.
—Do you want to talk about food stamps? I can talk about food stamps. Do you want to talk about food banks? “I can talk about food banks,” the Roar singer, 39, told People in the 2019 photo.
Katy flew to Sydney, Australia, to see Taylor Swift’s Eras tour on Friday
‘I am very grateful. It’s very overwhelming because you hear so many stories from these kids, and what it’s like for them to come home and what they’re dealing with,” Angela said.
She continued, “They give us a lot and I’m grateful that we can show them that there is something better out there.”
And Perry hopes the Firework Foundation is the way he will make his mark on the world in the way he’s always dreamed of.
“If in a hundred years no one knows Katy Perry or the song Firework, but they know what the Firework Foundation is, then I will have fulfilled my purpose,” he said.