The Band Perry

Blending country, pop, and rock into a crisp modern style, the Band Perry consists of siblings Kimberly Perry on lead vocals, guitar, and piano, Reid Perry on bass guitar, and Neil Perry on drums, mandolin, and accordion. Although the group did not form officially until summer 2005, the three had sung together since childhood in Mobile, Alabama, appearing in assorted home settings and shifting band lineups. Kimberly, known for her expressive and fiery vocal delivery, fronted her first band at age 15 and enlisted her brothers—Reid, then ten, and Neil, then eight—as roadies. The brothers later started their own band and frequently opened for their sister, yet the trio continued harmonizing at home, refining their three-part vocal blend and occasionally composing original material.

In 2005 the siblings united as a professional unit and joined that year’s New Faces of Country tour. Three years afterward they encountered Garth Brooks’ manager Bob Doyle, who signed them to a recording project; the resulting tracks impressed Scott Borchetta and Jimmy Harnen of the newly launched Republic Nashville label, which added the band in summer 2009. Their first single, “Hip to My Heart,” arrived that November, coinciding with sessions for a debut album produced by Nathan Chapman and Paul Worley. An EP of the same name appeared in May 2010, followed later that year by the full-length release.

The self-titled debut album ranked among 2010’s major country successes, propelled by the chart-topping singles “If I Die Young” and “All Your Life” plus the Top Ten hit “You Lie.” Those tracks sustained the trio’s chart presence into 2012, when they began work on a sophomore project with producer Rick Rubin before switching to Dann Huff. The completed album, Pioneer, emerged in April 2013, led by the number one single “Better Dig Two” and the follow-up “Done.” It topped the country albums chart, reached number two on the Billboard 200, and supported an extensive tour across North America and Western Europe. The next year the group’s cover of John Hartford’s “Gentle on My Mind,” originally a two-time Grammy winner for Glen Campbell in 1968, appeared on the soundtrack to the documentary Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me and earned the Band Perry a 2015 Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.

“Live Forever” surfaced in mid-2015, after which the trio departed Republic for Mercury/Interscope and signaled an incremental shift toward pop. Summer 2016 brought “Comeback Kid,” which peaked just inside the Top 40 on country airplay. Early in 2017 they revealed plans for a third album titled My Bad Imagination and previewed it with “Stay in the Dark,” yet the project never appeared; by summer 2018 they had parted from Mercury/Interscope. That September they issued the Rick Rubin-produced EP Coordinates on their own Artrat imprint, highlighted by the electronic-tinged single “Nostalgia.” A standalone track, “The Good Life,” followed in July 2019.