Steve Perry IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE, the voice of Journey.
Steve Perry is an American Singer and Songwriter, best known for his many years as the lead singer of the group Journey.
In addition to all the great hits he scored with Journey, he has a good deal of success as a solo artist.
He has only released two solo albums in his career.
His first solo album, “Street Talk” was released in 1984.
His second album, “For the Love of Strange Medicine” was released in 1994.
Those albums produced Five Top-40 singles. He also had a Top-40 single in 1982 with the hit “Don’t Fight It“, a duet with Kenny Loggins featured on a Loggins Album.
His hits include:
Don’t Fight It
Strung Out
Oh Sherrie
You Better Wait
She’s Mine
Foolish Heart
His top single was “Oh Sherrie” which reached #3 on the Billboard Charts in 1984.
“Oh Sherrie” was written about his then-girlfriend, Sherrie Swafford, who is also featured in the video for the song.
Steve Perry never quit Journey. He suffered a hip injury in 1996. Journey had been planning a concert tour to promote their most recent album and they were unable to tour with Perry injured. The group waited 17 months for Perry to have surgery or start touring, and then replaced Perry with new singer Steve Augeri in 1998.
(We all know how well that worked out…)
Steve Perry still does occasional shows in which he sings his solo material along with most of the classic Journey tunes he sang while with the band.
Rolling Stone ranked Steve Perry as the #76 best Singer in a list of the Top-100 Singers of All-Time.
I find it hard to believe that there are 75 Singers that have a better voice than Steve Perry. As far as Male Singers, Steve Perry blows most of the competition away!
Love journey, love Steve. A friend of mine took an instant dislike to him when journey released “Don’t Stop Believin’”, because Perry sang the lyric “Born and raised in South Detroit.” South Detroit is called Windsor, Canada. (Yeah, I know, my buddy wasn’t the brightest. He also hated the song “Pop Muzik” because one lyric mentions “going to the disco” and he HATED disco. He didn’t stay my buddy too long…
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Gotta dig, I have his first solo album around here somewhere….
By: John Erickson on September 5, 2011
at 11:46 am
By: John Erickson on September 5, 2011
at 11:54 am
Obviously you differ, but the new Philippino guy fronting Journey isn’t half bad. Clearly not Steve Perry, but sounds eerily like him. Only the hint of the tagalog accent gives him away. Interesting story behind it all too, centered around the song, “Don’t Stop Believin’” which you might have seen on 60 Minutes.
By: Anonymous on September 5, 2011
at 8:09 pm
Anonymous – I saw that story on Arnel on 60 minutes. He does have a great voice and does sound eerily like Steve. Arnel will carry them forward for years to come.
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 5, 2011
at 8:39 pm
Steve Perry is the gold standard of rock singers.
By: Anonymous on September 6, 2011
at 7:37 am
Oh man…what a set of lungs this guy has!
In my next life I want to be born with a voice like that.
By: Sparrow on September 6, 2011
at 6:36 pm