

76 on Rolling Stone’s list of Greatest Singers of All Time sounds in fine form - a bit raspier, a bit world-wearier, but that only adds pathos to poignant tracks like “We’re Still Here,” “Most of All,” “No More Cryin’,” “In the Rain,” and a cover of George Harrison’s “I Need You.” As Perry tells Yahoo Entertainment, “This is not the guy who left Journey. On Traces, the man who recently ranked at No. And it was Perry’s whirlwind romance with Nash - and his grief after Nash tragically died of breast cancer a year and a half after they met - that made Perry believe in music once more.
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Not only was that the beginning of a long history of the classic power ballad being placed in movies and TV shows, but it was the beginning of a friendship with Jenkins that eventually led Perry to the love of his life, psychologist Kellie Nash. But then director Patty Jenkins put Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” in her film Monster. Inspired by his mother’s battle with a neurological disease that took her life in 1985, he even considered enrolling in medical school and reinventing himself a neurologist. and had no intentions of ever singing again. When Perry quit the music business years ago, he returned to his boyhood hometown - the central San Joaquin Valley farm community of Hanford, Calif.

Fans may have thought Steve Perry had stopped believing, but after a two-decade recording hiatus, the reclusive ex-Journey singer is finally returning with the solo album Traces, out Oct.
