POD on Katy Perry performing as their back-up singer: ‘She has strong musicianship roots’

Star made a pre-fame cameo on band's 2005 single 'Goodbye For Now'

Christian metal band POD have responded to recent reports that Katy Perry performed as her ‘back-up singer’ before her rise to the fame.

Media reports recently pointed to Perry’s forgotten cameo on their 2005 single ‘Goodbye For Now’, also appearing with the band live on Jay Leno’s US talk show to promote the track.

Perry, who previously enjoyed an early career in Christian music before switching to a more pop-orientated sound, has been described as POD’s “back-up singer”, which the group say is “disrespectful” to the star.

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In a statement released to Rolling Stone, the band say: “This is revisionist history and disrespectful to our girl Katy who was NEVER a back-up singer… We invited her to participate on our record as she was and is still is one of the few pop artists with strong musicianship roots… She paid her dues not as a back-up singer but in a van going town to town. This is the problem with music journalism today… Shabby reporting. No research. No history”.

Watch the music video for ‘Goodbye For Now’ and Perry’s performance with POD on Leno below.

Perry, meanwhile, is taking legal action against a rival buyer who is stopping her in her bid to buy a former convent in Los Angeles, which she hopes to turn into a family home.

A complicated dispute has arisen over the ownership of the eight-acre property. Perry thought that she would be able to buy the former convent from the archdiocese of Los Angeles, run by Archbishop Jose Gomez, for $14.5million (£9.3million). But the five nuns who live in the property say that Perry would be an unsuitable owner and want to sell it to businesswoman Dana Hollister instead.

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Now, Perry has accused Hollister of taking “advantage of vulnerable, elderly nuns, who she malevolently convinced to oppose the Roman Catholic Church”. The lawsuit names both the archdiocese and the nuns as defendants, describing them as “victims” of Hollister’s. However, no direct complaint from the nuns has been filed.

Approached by The New York Times, representatives of Hollister declined to comment.

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