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Albums by Steve Perry
ALBUMThe Season (Deluxe Edition)Steve Perry
ALBUMTraces (Alternate Versions & Sketches)Steve Perry
ALBUMTraces (Deluxe Edition)Steve Perry
ALBUMFor the Love of Strange Medicine (Expanded Edition)Steve Perry
ALBUMStreet Talk (Expanded Edition)Steve Perry
Steve Perry's Popular Music Videos
Oh Sherrie
Steve Perry
Silver Bells
Steve Perry
No Erasin'
Steve Perry
No More Cryin'
Steve Perry
We're Still Here
Steve Perry
Most Of All (radio mix)
Steve Perry
Foolish Heart
Steve Perry
We're Still Here
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Strung Out
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You Better Wait
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Steve Perry Essentials
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Artist Biography
Smooth, bold, and powerful but pretty—the voice of Journey frontman Steve Perry is one of arena rock's signature sounds. A struggling singer from California’s Central Valley who had all but given up on music before taking a call in 1977 from Journey manager Walter Herbert, Perry helped redirect the band’s jazz-influenced progressive rock toward the mainstream. Journey's new sound—a blend of hard-rock muscle and pop-ballad sensitivity—made them one of the 1980s’ hugest successes and a touchpoint for bands from Bon Jovi to Foo Fighters. Just revisit Perry’s first appearance with the band, “Lights,” which imagined ’60s soul on a blockbuster scale, or the era-defining “Don’t Stop Believin’,” which took the uplift of Bruce Springsteen to stratospheric heights. Speaking to an interviewer in 2008, Perry described the feeling of being at a club and seeing a new generation sing along to “Don’t Stop Believin’” on the stereo: “There’s something reverent about that to me,” he said. “And I only wish to protect it, because it means something to them like it means something to me.”
Hometown
Hanford, CA, United States
Genre
Rock