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Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Journey during their most successful years from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. He also wrote/co-wrote several Journey hit songs. Perry had a successful solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, made sporadic appearances in the 2000s, and returned to music full-time in 2018. Perry's singing voice has garnered acclaim from prominent musical peers and publications; he has been dubbed The Voice, a moniker originally coined by Jon Bon Jovi. Ranked No. 76 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", Perry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey on April 7, 2017. In August 2023, Perry made the Billboard top 50 list of best rock singer band lead vocalists of all time, coming in number 30. At the same time, Billboard readers chose Perry as the favorite Rock Singer of All Time, with 67 percent of the overall votes. Early life Stephen Ray Perry was born in Hanford, California, to Portuguese parents from the Azores. He is an only child. Perry grew up interested in music, as his father, Raymond Perry (Pereira), was a vocalist and co-owner of radio station KNGS. Perry's parents ended their relationship when he was eight. He and his mother then moved to his grandparents' dairy farm. On Perry's 12th birthday, his mother, Mary Quaresma, presented him with a gold eighth note pendant; Perry wears the pendant for good luck. At age 12, Perry heard Sam Cooke's song "Cupid" on his mother's car radio, and it inspired him to become a singer. Career Early career In his early 20s, Perry moved to Sacramento to start a band, later named Ice, with 16-year-old future music producer Scott Mathews, who co-wrote, played drums and guitar and sang. In 1972, they recorded at the Record Plant studios in Los Angeles by day while Stevie Wonder recorded his Talking Book album by night. Upon returning to Sacramento, Ice disbanded as the band had no management, Mathews was still in high school, and the recordings went virtually unheard. In 1975, Perry moved to Thousand Oaks, California, where he formed a progressive rock band called Pieces with Tim Bogert (who had previously worked with Jeff Beck), Denver Cross, and Eddie Tuduri. After a year and a half, the group was unable to secure a record deal and disbanded. Perry also unsuccessfully auditioned to replace Rod Evans in Captain Beyond. Perry then ended up in Banta, California, outside of Tracy, California, where he fronted the band Alien Project in his mid-20s. He nearly gave up music when the bassist of that band, Richard Michaels, was killed in an automobile accident. Perry returned to Lemoore and decided not to continue his singing career, but at the urging of his mother, he answered a call from Walter "Herbie" Herbert, manager of struggling San Francisco-based band Journey. Journey era Original Journey organizer/manager Herbert had been given a demo of an Alien Project song, "If You Need Me, Call Me", and was told by producer Scott Mathews that the young singer would be a great replacement for then-current frontman Robert Fleischman. Fleischman had never signed with Herbert's company (preferring his previous manager) and had not fully coalesced with the band's then progressive rock style. Perry was brought on tour and to avoid alarming Fleischman was referred to as a roadie's Portuguese cousin. During a sound check in Long Beach, Perry surreptitiously performed a song with Journey while Fleischman was away from the stage; soon thereafter, Herbert informed the band members that Perry was the new lead singer. Perry brought a radically new, more pop-influenced style sense to the band's music, despite some grumblings from the band's existing members and fans of Journey's progressive rock sound. He made his public debut on October 28, 1977, in San Francisco to a mixed reception. Perry eventually won over new fans on his first album with the group, Infinity, which included a song he wrote called "Lights". The band's style had changed dramatically, but as Journey began to garner airplay and media buzz over Infinity, Perry's arrival was fully accepted. Perry provided lead vocals on nine of Journey's albums: Infinity (1978), Evolution (1979), Departure (1980), Dream, After Dream (1980, a Japanese movie soundtrack), Captured (1980, a live album), Escape (1981, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart), Frontiers (1983), Raised on Radio (1986), and Trial By Fire (1996). The single "Open Arms" from Escape was their biggest hit single, charting at No. 2 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. During his Journey tenure, Perry also sang backing vocals on several Sammy Hagar songs, including the 1980 tracks "The Iceman" (a nickname Hagar had for Scott Mathews) and "Run For Your Life", and duetting with Kenny Loggins on the 1982 No. 17 hit single "Don't Fight It". In 1984, following the release of Frontiers and the tour supporting this effort, Perry released his first solo album, Street Talk (the album's title was derived from the original name of Perry's earlier band Alien Project). The record sold more than 2 million units, scoring the hit singles No. 3 "Oh Sherrie", written for his then-girlfriend Sherrie Swafford, and No. 18 "Foolish Heart". The music video for "Oh Sherrie" saw heavy rotation on MTV. "She's Mine" and "Strung Out" were also released as singles from this project, which featured former Alien Project drummer Craig Krampf on a few tracks, guitarist Michael Landau, and future American Idol judge Randy Jackson on bass, among others. In 1985, Perry was one of 21 singers on the USA for Africa all-star benefit song "We Are the World". He also recorded a song, "If Only For the Moment, Girl" for the We Are the World album. This song was added to the reissue of his album Street Talk. Also during this period, Perry worked with the Irish folk-rock group Clannad on their 1987 album Sirius. While Perry was reuniting with Journey, his mother became ill. The recording of Raised on Radio, which Perry was producing, was stop-and-go as he frequently returned to the San Joaquin Valley to visit his mother, who died during the production of the album. It took a major toll on Journey to have intermittent recording sessions and a vocalist who was not with the band much of the time. Eventually, Perry became exhausted from the ordeal. Journey then went into hiatus in 1987 after the Raised on Radio tour. In 1988, Perry began to work on another solo album, Against the Wall, which he ultimately left unfinished (though several of the songs that were recorded for Against the Wall would appear on Perry's 1998 solo compilation, Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased). A year later, on April 30, 1989, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, Perry joined Bon Jovi to perform Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me" and the Four Tops' "Reach Out". He would also reunite w.... Discover the Steve Perry popular books. 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  • The Forever Drug synopsis, comments

    The Forever Drug

    Steve Perry

    Venture Silk and Zia Rélanj have fled Earth for her homeworld of E2 it was run or be arrested. They love each other, but he's a spindoc and she's a spy; she's going to get a treat...

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    50 Great Moments in Australian Cricket

    Dan Liebke

    They're the moments that make up Australian sporting folklore, the iconic events that stand out in Australia's collective sporting memory long after the match details have become a...

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    Body-Confident

    Emma Wright

    How do we encourage our kids towards healthy habits without promoting body obsession?For too long, parents have been given an impossible task: keep your kid from getting too fat, w...

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    Spindoc

    Steve Perry

    Venture Silk is a corporate spindoc in beautiful Hawaii, twisting the news to serve his bosses when his girlfriend is murdered.Silk is pulled into a web of intrigue beyond the kind...

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    Design as Art

    Bruno Munari

    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever....

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    The Lamp of Memory

    John Ruskin

    John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that ...

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    Great Achievers and Characters in Australian Cricket

    Roland Perry

    From the turbulent life of the late Shane Warne to the skill, mentality and character behind Pat Cummins’ newlook captaincy, and through the decades to the wit, wisdom and genius o...

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    The Dreadnaught

    Steve Perry

    Behold Eilandia, a preindustrial world with vast seas, about to embroil itself in a bloody global war. Here is a major fantasy in its first publication anywhere, a wideranging tale...

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    Steve Perry v. State

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

    The appellant initially alleges that his pretrial motion for discovery, production, and inspection should not have been denied, especially the portion which would have ...

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    Bristlecone

    Steve Perry

    “Old age and treachery overcomes youth and skill every time.” When a longretired couple of blackbag assassins are pulled back into the game, it's only a matter of hours before...

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    Never Let Go

    Suzanne Alderson

    How to help your child with mental illness through partnering, not parenting.Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illnes...

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    Windowpane

    Steve Perry

    There is magic in the music that Flint McClelland makes literally.Twenty years after the Summer of Love, Flint travels the world, searching for enspelled items that might bring ba...

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    Lives of the Artists

    Giorgio Vasari & George Bull

    Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. G...

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    Gatekeeper in Hell

    Steve Perry

    Collected here, the nine Roy the Demon short stories, from New York Times Bestselling author Steve Perry. These are raucous, profane tales, rated NC17, for language, sex, and helli...

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    Essex Boys

    Bernard O'Mahoney

    ESSEX BOYS is the brand new edition of the shocking bestseller known as SO THIS IS ECSTASY?. It is the true story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gan...

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    Henri Matisse

    Alastair Sooke

    Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventyfirst birthda...

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    Master Of Pamor

    Steve Perry

    A martial arts fantasy novel set in old Java. Murder, mayhem, ghosts, and black steel ...

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    Now is the Time

    Stanislaus Kennedy

    "Take time to live it's what life is for."This is an inspiring and thoughtprovoking work of vision from multibestseller Sister Stanislaus Kennedy. A timely and prescient collectio...

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    The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

    Vincent van Gogh & Ronald de Leeuw

    A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for ...

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    No Man But A Blockhead

    Steve Perry

    Essays on working in the writing biz; howto, funny stories, traps and pitfalls along the way ...

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    Immune Response

    Steve Perry

    On the wet Olympic peninsula of Washington state. Physician's Assistant Rick scales is having problems with some of his terminallyill patients––they aren't dying …Along with Makah ...

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    Keeping Your Head in the Game

    Gary Bloom

    Drawing on his work with elite athletes, the world's first sports psychotherapist on what to do when life throws you a curveball'Cracking tales, a great read' Nigel Owens MBE, rugb...

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    A Good Bad Boy

    Margaret Wappler

    An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210.Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 9021...

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    The Omega Cage

    Steve Perry

    When Smuggler Dain Maro runs afoul of the criminal organization Black Sun, he is framed and convicted for murder, then shipped to the galaxy's worst prison. It's a oneway ticket to...

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    For Cap and Country

    Jesse Hogan, Simon Auteri & Andrew Faulkner

    The personal stories behind one of Australia's most beloved sporting icons the baggy green.Australian Test players, past and present, open up about the road from their backyards t...

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    Bristlecone

    Steve Perry

    “Old age and treachery overcomes youth and skill every time.”When a longretired couple of blackbag assassins are pulled back into the game, it's only a matter of hours before there...

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    Game of My Life San Francisco 49ers

    Dennis Georgatos

    Some of the games described in this unique book involve championships, while others seem ordinary save for extraordinary personal meaning. In each case, it is the legendary 49ers p...

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    Still Alright

    Kenny Loggins & Jason Turbow

    Enjoy the stories behind Kenny Loggins' legendary fivedecade career as a celebrated songwriter, charttopping collaborator, and “The Soundtrack King” with this pop icon’s intimate a...

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    Living With Wealth Without Losing Your Soul

    Steve Perry

    <p><b>This book is for anyone who wants to steward well what God has given them.</b><br>Rick Warren, Author of <i>The Purpose Driven Life</i>, S...

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    Curse the Darkness

    Steve Perry

    Tyrone Candle is a Portland gunsmith–and a vigilante in his spare time, setting up deserving bad guys for the police. When somebody starts shooting at his friends, Candle has to pu...

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    Champion of the Dead

    Steve Perry

    Escorting recentlydead souls through the Eighteen Hells of the bardo to be reincarnated is never an easy job. Hungry ghosts, demons, and malignant demigods are everywhere, dangerou...