A Kentucky native is this year's "American Idol" winner!Noah Thompson, a 19-year-old from Louisa, Kentucky, won this year's singing competition.Thompson is a construction worker and now "American Idol" winner.Thompson won after his final performance where he sang "One Day Tonight" and "Stay."Thompson beat out the other remaining contestant, Huntergirl.Katy Perry, one of the judges, also has connections to Kentucky.Perry is settling down in Kentucky, the pop star revealed in a podcast interview. “I’m living, like, in Kentucky and I have for almost a month now and that’s quite an amazing experience,” Perry, 37, told Chelsea Handler in a new episode of her podcast “Dear Chelsea.” “Because it reminds you that Hollywood is not America.”In the podcast interview, the pop star told Handler that moving to Kentucky has helped her understand people better, saying it’s “nice to go outside of what you know to be normal and your reality.”Perry has a 2-year-old daughter with her fiancé, Orlando Bloom.The singer did not reveal exactly where in Kentucky she is residing, but says living in Kentucky is like living in a bubble that's completely outside of Hollywood.The couple started dating from January 2016 to March 2017 before they broke up. They reunited in February of 2018 and got engaged about a year after.Perry currently serves as one of the judges of the popular music competition show, "American Idol," alongside Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie and host Ryan Seacrest.