Born
January 22nd, 1949
Key Tracks
"Oh Sherrie," "Don't Stop Believin'," "Open Arms"
Influenced
Chris Daughtry, Chad Kroeger, Rob Thomas
"Other than Robert Plant, there's no accompanist in bedrock that even came abutting to Steve Perry," says American Idol adjudicator Randy Jackson, who played bass with Perry in Journey. "The power, the range, the accent — he created his own style. He alloyed a little Motown, a little Everly Brothers, a little Zeppelin." When he was 10 years old, Perry heard Sam Cooke's "Cupid" on his mom's car radio, and absitively he had to be a singer. After singing in a academy choir, he abutting Journey at the age of 28, bound absolute a affection for quavering, reverb-soaked action that appealed to millions of admirers — but few bedrock critics. Yet his abstruse abilities (those top notes!), authentic accent and amorous artlessness now assume undeniable. "He lives for it and loves it," says Jackson. "I just saw him not continued ago, and he still has the aureate voice."
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