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Christina Perri is an American female singer-songwriter and musician. Her musical style encompasses pop, rock, alternative, and indie genres. She began her professional work period in 2008.
Her discography includes the albums *Lovestrong* and *Head or Heart*, along with their associated songbooks. She is also credited with the song "Thousand Years" from the *Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1*. Open Library records eleven works under her name, while Crossref lists five.
Perri has accumulated 6,900,000 social media followers. On Last.fm, she has 1,940,884 listeners and 28,949,675 playcounts. Her official website is christinaperri.com.
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Key facts
- Born
- Christina Judith Perri , ( 1986-08-19 ) August 19, 1986 (age 39) , Bensalem, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Spouse
- Paul Costabile ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2017 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2025 )
- Relatives
- Nick Perri (brother)
- Genres
- Pop pop rock children's music
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar piano keyboards
- Labels
- Atlantic Elektra
- Website
- christinaperri .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christina
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- pop rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Atlantic Records
- Official website
- www.christinaperri.com
- Image
- Christina Perri @ Hotel Cafe 07 15 2022 (52301451638) (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
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- Commons category
- Christina Perri
- social media followers
- 6900000
- date of birth
- 1986-08-19
- start of work period
- 2008-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. After her debut single "Jar of Hearts" was featured on the television series So You Think You Can Dance in 2010, Perri signed with Atlantic Records and released her debut extended play, The Ocean Way Sessions. Her debut studio album, Lovestrong (2011), followed soon after and has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Perri also gained recognition for writing and recording "A Thousand Years", the love theme for the film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012), which appears on the accompanying soundtrack. The song went on to sell over 10 million copies in the United States, being certified Diamond, and the official music video reached two billion views on YouTube in December 2021. She later released her second extended play, A Very Merry Perri Christmas (2012), followed by her second studio album, Head or Heart (2014). After recording the lullaby albums Songs for Carmella (2019) and Songs for Rosie (2021), Perri released her third pop and fifth overall studio album, A Lighter Shade of Blue (2022). In 2023, she released the albums Songs for Pixie and Songs for Christmas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christina Perri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.