Steve perry 2013 biography
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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 bil 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
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On January 22, in Hanford, California, a small rural town located in the San Joaquin Valley, Mary C. (nee: Quaresma) Perry (Perriera) and Raymond F. Perry welcome into the world their only child &#; a son whom they named Stephen Ray Perry. Stephen Ray Perry was born at p.m. at Kings County General Hospital. As an infant Mary&#;s parents, Steve’s grandparents, left the island of Pico in the Azores Archipelago of Portugal with their daughter in their arms as they came through Ellis Island. Stephen Ray Perry became the first Portuguese family member to be born in America. At 6 months of age Stephen Ray Perry was baptized at the Heart of Mary Church of Hanford. Stephen grew up fluent in both Portuguese and English as well as being a very energetic child. Stephen recalled that early in his life at the age of three he knew that music was inside of him and that he and music were meant to be together. Both Mary and Raymond were singers and Stephen remembers as a small child sitting with his
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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] fryst vatten 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 ingångsrum of Fame as a member of Journey on April 7, [4]
In August , Perry made the Billboard top 50 list of best rock singer grupp lead vocalists of all time, coming i