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Steve Perry
American singer and songwriter (born )
For other uses, see Steve Perry (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, )[1] is an American singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Journey during their most successful years from to , and again from to He wrote/co-wrote several Journey hit songs. Perry had a successful solo career between the mids and mids, made sporadic appearances in the s, and returned to music full-time in
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.[2] Ranked No. 76 on Rolling Stone's " Greatest Singers of All Time",[3] Perry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey on April 7, [4]
In August , Perry made the Billboard top 50 list of best rock singer band lead vocalists of all time, coming in number [5]&#;At the same time, Billboard readers chose Perry as the favorite Rock Singer of All Time, with 67 percent of the overall votes.[6]
Early life
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Steve Perry (author)
American television writer and science fiction author
For the author of ThunderCats, see Stephen Perry (writer). For the singer, see Steve Perry.
Steve Perry (born August 31, ) is an American television writer and science fiction author.
Biography
[edit]Perry is a native of the Deep South. His residences have included Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Prior to working full-time as a freelance writer, he worked as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, assembler of toys, a clerk in a hotel gift shop and car rental agency, aluminum salesman, martial art instructor, private detective, and nurse. His wife is Dianne Waller, a Port of Portland executive. They have two children and five grandsons.[1] One of their children is science fiction author S. D. Perry.
He is a practitioner of the martial art Silat, which inspired him to create the fictional martial arts Sumito and Teräs Käsi, both of which are essentially fictionalized versions of Silat.
Literary career
[edit]Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes. He was a collabora