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Stephen Henry Perry (born October 8, 1963) is an American musician, best known as lead singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist for the Oregon ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. ==Biography== Perry was born in Syracuse, New York to a physicist and a social worker, and raised in Apalachin, outside the industrial city of Binghamton. He described Binghamton as being "a poor, run down, loner class town", which would later serve as a significant influence on his songwriting. After graduating from Vestal High School〔(Perry's 1980 Vestal XX race result. )〕 in 1981, Perry moved to Eugene, Oregon to pursue track and field and chemistry in the Honors College at the University of Oregon, where he befriended fellow student Dan Schmid.〔 After being exposed to the Northwest punk and hardcore scene, Perry became inspired to follow a path as a musician, teaching himself guitar at age twenty. Finding himself more interested in "drinking beer and going to punk rock shows" than attending college, Perry dropped out in his junior year in 1983 and formed the punk trio The Jazz Greats with Schmid and drummer Tim Arnold.〔〔〔 Perry was also briefly involved with Snakepit alongside Billy Karren, Joe Preston, Laura Mcdougall and Al Larsen before performing with the Paisley Underground-styled band Saint Huck with Schmid and Arnold from 1984 to 1987, after which the trio formed what would become the Cherry Poppin' Daddies in late 1988. After emerging as a successful regional band and eventually becoming a consistent staple of the West Coast third wave ska touring circuit, the Daddies broke into the musical mainstream with their 1997 album ''Zoot Suit Riot'', a compilation of swing songs culled from the band's first three albums. Despite selling over two million copies in the United States and helping launch the short-lived swing revival of the late 1990s which shot the Daddies into the limelight, Perry has often expressed contempt for the band's period of temporary fame, citing frustration over what he claimed was persistent and lingering media typecasting of the Daddies as a generic "retro swing band" at the expense of their dominant ska punk influences. Additionally, Perry has also talked about the socially alienating effects fame had on his personal life, claiming it to have negatively changed relationships with friends and even subjected him to occasional heckling from strangers who recognized him in public.〔〔 In recent years, however, Perry has retrospectively called the success of ''Zoot Suit Riot'' "a blessing" for giving the band and himself the financial stability to continue; as he put it, "no more blocks of government cheese". Following the critical and commercial disappointment of 2000's ''Soul Caddy'', the Daddies went on hiatus as Perry temporarily relocated to Manhattan for the better part of two years to be closer to his family and "chill anonymously". Upon moving back to Eugene, Perry re-enrolled at the University of Oregon, pursuing an undergraduate degree in molecular biology, graduating in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science. During this time, he was also active singing in the hard rock/glam rock band White Hot Odyssey, a side project he started with Daddies guitarist Jason Moss in 2002. The band released a self-titled album Jive Records in 2004 before going on hiatus in 2005. Perry lives in Eugene with his wife and daughter, where he currently works in a biology laboratory. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Perry (Oregon musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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