Perry Snyder

Country singer and songwriter Perry Snyder was born and raised in southwest lower Michigan. 

Growing up Perry was exposed to a lot of music ranging from country to rock n roll. His dad is big into rock n roll as well as classic rock. His mom and his maternal grandparents were big into country music.

“I spent a lot of time listening to music. Every weekend during the school years and most summers I spent at my grandparents house and they were always listening to WMAQ, an AM radio station out of Chicago. Then when I was home if I had a hand held radio or an alarm with a radio I would listen to that same station until the late 80’s when it changed format and went to talk radio.”

Perry knew early in life he wanted to be a country singer. “As soon as I heard Waylon and Willie sing “Momma, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys” I knew I wanted to sing.”

By the age of 16, he was singing country gospel music in a couple of area churches. “I will admit, I started out being way off key.” He laughs, “It took me a while to realize that! A music leader at my church pointed it out to me after I had already spent about a year singing which was about 10 or 15 times by then. I was about 18 by the time I could get through a whole song on key. “I just thought singers just did their thing. I didn’t know about being on key.”

By 2004, at age 30, Perry started singing at karaoke bars around southwest lower Michigan. He also became a karaoke DJ. “I did this three or four nights a week for years. I had a blast with these shows, but it just wasn’t fulfilling enough for me as an entertainer. I wanted to be a country music singer doing concerts around the country or world.”

Finally at age 43, Perry went to Nashville, Tennessee and recorded his first album, “Keeping With Tradition”. “Recording this album was such a blast. Nashville was a whole new experience for me and I learned so much. My, producer and album engineer, Mark Moseley also taught me so much that I feel I became a better singer as a result. He had me hitting notes I never thought I could hit.” Perry says. “I can’t wait to get back down to Nashville and work on album number 2 with Mark.”

Keeping With Tradition was Perry's first album.  The first release, Saving It Up (For Saturday Night) reached #2 on the World Wide Airplay Traditional Country Charts in December 2016.  In March of 2017, a second song from the album, She's Breaking in a New Heart reached #6 in the UK and the last release, Fall of the Year, hit #1 on the World Wide Airplay Traditional Country Chart.

Perry also released a Country Gospel single, What a Wonderful Day that reached and spent two weeks at #1 on the World Wide Gospel Chart in December 2017

In 2018, another gospel single, Lord, It's Time, was nominated for a Josie Music Award Gospel Song of the Year.  Josie Music Awards is the largest, most important Independent Artists awards show.

Perry’s musical influences are Waylon Jennings, Mark Chesnutt, (both are respectively Perry’s #1 and #2 all time favorite artists). Other influences include Mickey Gilley, Ed Bruce, Vern Gosdin, The Oak Ridge Boys, Travis Tritt, Confederate Railroad, The Moody Blues, and Freddie Mercury of Queen.