I went to the Prismatic World Tour last night in Phoenix and Katy Perry took a good half hour telling us about how she spent preschool through 1st grade in Scottsdale (a suburb of Phoenix) and that she learned to write here. Therefore she credited her songs to her Arizonaness
Our public schools are awful She went to a christian school though. Arizona has some of the best private/charters such as Basis, PCDS, Brophy/Xavier, etc.