Steve Perry (musician)
Steve Perry ( born January 22, 1949 in Hanford, California; actually Stephen Ray Perry ) is an American singer with Portuguese roots, which is also known under the name of "The Voice". He also composed film music.
Life
Perry grew up in a musical environment as his father Ray Pereira (who later changed his surname to Perry ) was a singer. At the age of ten he heard the song Cupid by Sam Cooke on the car radio to his mother; This inspired him to also become a singer.
His breakthrough came in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the band Journey. With his voice and his expressiveness, he went with the band to a total of six world tours. In 1984 he published under the title of Street Talk released his debut album as a solo artist. The first single Oh Sherrie, which he wrote for his then- girlfriend Sherrie Swafford, peaked in the Billboard charts in June 1984 3rd place, followed by three more singles, all of which could place in the Billboard charts themselves. In 1985 he was involved as a member of USA for Africa in the development of single We Are the World. He left the band Journey in March 1987.
In 1988 he again took on their own material. But the finished album Against The Wall initially remained unpublished. After a long pause, Perry began work on his next album For The Love Of Strange Medicine, which was released after several delays in 1994. With this album he went late 1994 to early 1995 in America on solo tour.
In 1991 there were a one-day reunion with his former bandmates; he played along with Cain and already on the Bill Graham Memorial Concert. This was the last live performance of the (albeit only partially occurred ) success occupation.
In 1996, then came to the seemingly final reunion of Journey. They took on Trial by Fire, but there was ( for the first time since 1981 ), due to a fall on Hawaii and thereby incurred Perry's hip problems, no support tour for the album. Steve Perry rose again in May 1998 with Journey. In the same year the compilation Greatest Hits Five Unreleased was released, also on the five unreleased tracks of Against The Wall sessions are included. In the same year he composed two songs for the film Quest of Camelot. Perry was a major player in the production of DVD's Greatest Hits (2003) and Live in Houston 1981 ( 2006) of his former band Journey that a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was 2005.
In the music magazine Rolling Stone Perry is ranked 76 in the list of 100 greatest singers of all time. Allmusic said about Perry: "If you choose a singer would, of who can best identify with the 80 Arena Rock, it would undoubtedly Journeys Steve Perry. "