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About Ke$ha
Ke$ha was born in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles to a single parent. Her mother, Pebe Ke$ha, also a singer-songwriter, was struggling to get by and support Ke$ha and her older brother at the time. She would often look after the then infant Ke$ha onstage while performing. Pebe moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991 after securing a publishing deal, and Ke$ha spent the rest of her early years attending a music school in the neighboring countryside. Pebe often brought Ke$ha along to recording studios and encouraged her to sing, Ke$ha was exposed to the music of many country music artists while learning to write songs. The Ke$ha family was featured in an episode of The Simple Life, as the host family, which led to an incident later where Ke$ha vomited in Paris Hilton's closet. At the age of seventeen she dropped out of Brentwood High School in Nashville, after being convinced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin, to return to Los Angeles and pursue a music career. Dr. Luke had come across her demos and was so impressed that he contacted her with Martin and began a working relationship with her immediately.
Ke$ha survived on low income and few gigs while pursuing her career at first, moonlighting as a waitress to make ends meet while furthering her music career in studios with different producers and writing songs for other artists. Ke$ha lived with her alleged father when she first got to Los Angeles and subsequently moved in with a boy she was interested in, she currently lives in a shared mansion in Laurel Canyon. She decided that she wanted Prince to produce her music, so she found and snuck into his Beverly Hills home. Once she was discovered, she was promptly thrown out, but not before she dropped off her demo with Prince himself.
Between 2006 and 2009, Ke$ha's music appeared in a variety of media, her song "Former Overexposed Blonde" appeared in Degrassi: The Next Generation, while "Backstabber" and "Chain Reaction" were used in The Hills. During this time, she also co-wrote The Veronicas' single, "This Love", sang background vocals for Britney Spears' song "Lace and Leather" and appeared in the video for Katy Perry's single, "I Kissed a Girl" Her appearance in the video arose due to her being friends with Perry, they met frequently as aspiring pop singers in Los Angeles and shared many musical collaborators.
She gained exposure in the mainstream media after being featured on Flo Rida's single, "Right Round". The collaboration came about when Flo Rida decided that the song needed a female voice, Ke$ha was then roped in for the part after being suggested by Dr. Luke, who was producing the song. Flo Rida liked the end result so much that he invited her to sing on another song, "Touch Me", for his album. Ke$ha did not collect any money for the gig and also turned down the offer to appear in the video for "Right Round" because she wanted to strike out on her own. Soon after, it was announced that she had signed with RCA Records through Dr. Luke and was working on her debut album, Animal, which is due to be released on January 5, 2010 in the US. Her first single, "Tik Tok", was released to US radio on October 5, 2009. It features a cameo appearance by Diddy.
On March 27, 2009, she appeared onstage alongside 3OH!3 at one of their concerts at Avalon Hollywood to perform their duet, "My First Kiss". She also performed at that year's Lollapalooza as part of the BMI Stage. Ke$ha's musical credits in 2009 include work for Teen Cribs, she had previously done background cues for My Super Sweet 16 as well, co-writing the title song for Miley Cyrus' The Time of Our Lives EP and appearances on Pitbull and Taio Cruz's albums. She also revealed in an interview with DigitalSpy that she had written a song for Rihanna. Ke$ha has also been a supporting act of Calvin Harris on tour in the UK and has performed with Mickey Avalon on multiple tour dates.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha_(singer)