Katy Perry in Macau: A look at the life and career of the reigning queen of pop

After her headline-stealingperformance at the Super Bowl halftime show in February, Katy Perry, the reigning queen of pop, is set to bring her Prismatic World Tour to The Venetian Macao for two monster shows next month.

It's hard to remember a time when Perry wasn't atop the charts - or all over the gossip pages. Madonna singled her out for stardom early, raving about her first single in 2007, Ur So Gay. Having Madge on your side certainly didn't hurt, and a year later she rocketed to fame with the release of the single I Kissed a Girl. That track was followed by her second album, One of the Boys, that made it to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and was followed by her first solo tour to promote the album. Six years down the track and she is now on her fourth tour.

The Prismatic World Tour is not only her biggest and shiniest yet, it might just be the most personal.

"I am involved with every detail of the tour. There are seven sections in the tour and each section is its own different world," she said in a video released at the start of the tour, "so we have the Prismatic section, the Ancient Egyptian section … it's exciting and there are lots of remixes."

The tour began a year ago in Belfast and is now on its fourth leg - you can't say the diva doesn't put in the legwork - which will take it through Asia before winding up in Brazil in September. The scope of the tour is so hue that it took 28 semi-trailers and 12 buses to transport the stage set-up and crew around Australia.