Background
Perry was born in Ogden, Utah and lives in Provo with her husband Douglas.
Perry was born in Ogden, Utah and lives in Provo with her husband Douglas.
Brigham Young University.
She has five children and over a dozen grandchildren. In the late 1970s she got her "two lucky breaks" as she calls them when she broke her ankle playing basketball, and simultaneously the family television broke. While recuperating from her injuries, and with nothing to do, her bishop asked her to write original music for the ward roadshow, which initiated her future musical success.
Perry composed the hymn "As Sisters in Zion" for the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Hymnbook and has ten songs published in the Primary songbook.
She has produced more than 50 albums of original music, numerous sacred cantatas, several full-length musicals, and her music is known world-wide throughout the Church. Her music has been performed by artists such as Gladys Knight, Brooks & Dunn, and The Osmonds-Second Generation and she has co-written with Senator Orrin Hatch.
She is the older sister to noted painter Gary Kapp. She and Douglas enjoy traveling around the nation presenting firesides.
Perry co-wrote six albums of songs with Orrin Hatch.