Ex-JOURNEY Singer STEVE PERRY Signs New Record Deal, Doesn’t Rule Out Solo Tour: ‘I Miss It Terribly’

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, former JOURNEY singer Steve Perry discussed some of his upcoming projects. He said: “I just signed with a new label. I’m very excited about it, and I’ll have an opportunity very soon to work with these very, very musically creative people. I’ll probably announce who I signed with very soon. That’s about as much as I can say, but I’m excited about that, and I am working on stuff.”

Asked why he didn’t tour in support of his last album, 2018’s “Traces”, Steve said: “Well, it’s a long story. Uncle Steve is up in age, and everybody at this age has some aches and pains and things like that. But it’s a really good question that I’ve been asking myself too.

“It’s something that I’m absolutely missing terribly,” he continued. “I can’t even tell you how much, but there’s been a big soulful reclaiming of this original feeling that I had about singing that I needed to get back to. I didn’t want to go out and just turn the wheel or turn the crank. … [As far as touring again], I never say never at this point. My life has proven me just that.”

Perry went on to say that he is about to get into the studio and recorded the follow-up to “Traces”.

“These new label people are so supportive,” Steve said. “They said, ‘We don’t care what you do, we just want to do it with you.'”

Earlier this month, Perry released a new version of the JOURNEY song “It Could Have Been You” with THE EFFECT, the group featuring Trevor “Trev” Lukather (son of TOTO’s Steve Lukather) on guitars, Nic Collins (son of Phil Collins) on drums and Steve Maggiora (TOTO) on keyboards.