LDS Music

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Janice Kapp Perry

• Lyricist Composer

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography

• Janice Kapp Perry is a prolific composer and
  lyricist of inspirational music. Janice Kapp
  Perry was born in Ogden and lives in Provo, Utah
  with her husband Douglas for 44 years. They have
  five childrens and over a dozen grandchildren in
  Utah.
• Janice and Douglas were interested in many foster
  children. Janice received her musical training
  degree at Brigham Young University in 1960.
  Although she was born into a musical family she
  did not begin composing until she was nearly 40
  years old. Sports were more important to her.

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography

• She competed on many city league softball teams
  and regularly played volleyball and racquetball.
  Janice Musical Success initiated in the late 1970
  through her "two lucky breaks" she calls first
  break when she broke her ankle playing basketball
  and her family TV broke simultaneously the same
  day.
• Sitting in home nothing to do she was very much
  upset. At that time her bishop asked her to write
  original music for the ward roadshow, her musical
  journey initiated with a great success. She has
  been writing and recording gospel music for the
  last 27 years. She composed the hymn "As sisters
  in Zion" for the LDS hymnbook and has ten songs
  in the primary songbook

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography

• She also served as a relief society president and
  got Provo ward for 7 years. She got retired in
  2000 from singing with the Mormon tabernacle
  choir. Her music is known worldwide throughout
  the church. She has produced more than 50 albums
  of original music, numerous sacred cantatas, and
  several full-length musicals.
• Janice Kapp Perry served as a missionary for the
  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints in
  Chile with her husband from 2002 to 2004. She
  served as a missionary with her husband in Provo
  and assigned to a Spanish speaking ward. In 2007,
  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.

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography

• She received the Ricks College Exemplary Woman
  Award in 1994, and the BYU Alumni Distinguished
  Service Award in 1997.She and Douglas enjoy
  traveling around the nation presenting firesides.
  Perry co-wrote six albums of songs with Orrin
  Hatch.
• Ten years, she was working as a missionary where
  she would attend many women conferences around
  United States. She recently has written and
  published three volumes of new sacred hymns with
  a variety of hymn text writers, as well as a book
  telling the stories behind her songs. Songs such
  as Love Is Spoken Here, Im Trying to Be like
  Jesus, and I Love to See the Temple are among
  the most popular Primary songs.

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography

• In 2013, LDS Living posted a 100 Greatest LDS
  Songs list and A Childs Prayer (Perrys
  favorite) topped the list with seven others in
  the top thirty. Perry has been officially
  commissioned to write music by The Church of
  Jesus Christ, including penning I Walk by Faith
  for the Young Women organization.
• Her process always involves prayer, scripture
  study, pondering, and then writing. She has over
  1300 songs and 50 albums to her credit. Some of
  her songs have been written in response to
  personal tragedy. After her fifth and last child
  died shortly after birth, she wrote Where Is
  Heaven? After her left hand inexplicably became
  nonfunctional, she wrote The Test". Perry music
  is frequently selected and arranged for the
  Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography

• Perry and her cousin Joy Saunders Lundberg wrote
  a full-length musical and performed it 239 times
  over the span of three years. She has also
  collaborated with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch to
  write Heal Our Land, which was performed at the
  National Prayer Breakfast in 2001 and at
  President George W. Bushs second inauguration.
• She also had a remarkable experience when her
  niece, who was dying of cancer, asked her to set
  a poem written by President Gordon B. Hinckley to
  music. She received his permission to write music
  to What Is This Thing That Men Call Death? but
  did not receive a reply to her request to publish
  it.

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography

• When he passed away she thought the song would
  never be published. He had signed the consent,
  however, two days before he died. She received
  his letter the day after his death, and the next
  day, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir asked for her
  permission to sing the song at his memorial
  service.
• When he passed away she thought the song would
  never be published. He had signed the consent,
  however, two days before he died. She received
  his letter the day after his death, and the next
  day, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir asked for her
  permission to sing the song at his memorial
  service.

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Janice Kapp Perry Biography