Kesha Rose Sebert

Kesha held a benefit concert on June 16, 2010 where all proceeds went to aid victims of the May 2010 Tennessee floods from her hometown Nashville. She raised close to $70,000 from the event. She also donated 1,000 pounds of dog food to a local animal shelter for pets abandoned in the flood. She was a supporting act on the summer North American leg of Rihanna's Last Girl on Earth tour. Animal will be re-released under the title Animal + Cannibal on November 22 with the new songs available as a separate extended play, Cannibal, as well. Lead single, "We R Who We R" became only the 17th song to debut at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, three weeks before the album's release.
Image and artistry
Kesha has been noted for her party girl image, however, she insists that critics should look past her image, saying "I have been working on realizing this dream, my path, my mission, for years. I’ve really invested a lot of thought, time and effort into it. ... I think it’s a bummer when people don’t represent that properly, when they portray me as purely one-dimensional." She has said that the dollar sign in her stage name was meant to be ironic, in that she "actually stands for the opposite of putting a lot of emphasis on money."