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Janice Kapp Perry

Meet Author Janice Kapp Perry
Janice Kapp Perry was born in Ogden, Utah, raised in Vale, Oregon, and currently lives in Provo, Utah. She and her husband, Douglas, have five children and 13 grandchildren. Through the years, they have also had many foster children. Janice received her musical training at Brigham Young University in Provo and has been writing and recording gospel music for the past 30 years. She composed the hymn As Sisters in Zion for the LDS hymnbook and several songs in the Primary songbook. She has served as Relief Society president in her Provo ward and retired from singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1999. The Perrys recently returned from serving in the Chile Santiago West Mission, and are currently serving a church service mission in a Spanish ward in Provo, Utah.
Author's Published Articles
2013-04-18

If you’re looking for a Mother’s Day gift that is guaranteed to please your Mom, I have a great suggestion for you—and th...

2013-03-21

Promptings from the Spirit seem to happen much more frequently since I have learned how to prepare my spirit to receive them an...

2013-02-21

Creating double-melody songs has been a very happy part of my songwriting career. Share in my joy when three of them were recor...

2013-01-17

We all ask ourselves the bigger questions about the meaning of life and happiness. I have looked for answers and shared my feel...

2012-12-21

A few songs and thoughts from the heart of Janice Kapp Perry as she reflects on what matters most in the last few days before C...

2012-11-15

My thoughts are a bit scrambled this year because underlying all the happy plans for Christmas is a melancholy, a sense of loss...

2012-10-18

I guess you could call me a lifelong choir junkie. No one ever had to beg me to sing in the ward choir—if a few people were g...

2012-09-21

The power of music seems to defy description. We know that the words, the melodies, and the rhythm combine to affect us profoun...

2012-08-16

Janice Kapp Perry's shares the stories behind the songs she has written about the temple....

2012-07-19

For the first 20 years, I left the singing to the pros. But I harbored a secret little dream that I might sing an album of song...

2012-06-21

I want to share three stories and songs in tribute to the courage of our servicemen and women, and particularly those who paid ...

2012-05-17

I realized how important it is to keep a personal journal when one day I found eight pages that my grandmother had written. I d...

2012-04-19

The newest children's album, "As a Child of God," by Janice Kapp Perry will appeal to all ages. Enjoy listening to new songs he...

2012-03-15

We have published and recorded a collection of seventeen new children’s songs that we hope will bring the gospel to life musi...

2012-02-16

“Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.”...

2012-01-19

On November 30, 2011 our son John completed seven years of walking one full hour a day, without missing one day!...

2011-11-17

Beloved composer Janice Kapp Perry, with her family, has written Christmas songs you’ll love to hear right inside this articl...

2011-10-20

Two musical sisters combine forces in what will eventually be a 12-CD collection....

2011-09-16

Janice Kapp Perry and Senator Orrin Hatch collaborated on songs celebrating America right when we needed it most....

2011-08-19

After five years of labor with two fine composers, a new set of hymns has come forth about the Book of Mormon....

2011-07-21

The composer of your favorite missionary songs, from "The Army of Helaman" to" In the Hollow of HIs Hand", tells what inspired ...

2011-07-01

Listen to some of Janice Kapp Perry’s patriotic songs as you hear the story behind why she wrote them....

2011-05-23

So many times in my life I have seen wonderful, faithful Saints blindsided by tragedies that threaten to undermine the very fou...

2011-04-21

When a dear friend is in a terrible car accident, Janice reflects on the years of friendship....

2011-03-17

Creating songs doesn’t always come at an opportune time. Sometimes words and music just started coming to Janice Kapp Perry...

2011-02-17

Janice Kapp Perry has learned that she doesn’t write her songs alone. ...

2011-01-21

If you’re missing the wonder and beauty of life, it may be time to set bolder goals....

2010-12-16

I hesitate to admit how old I was when I discovered the Santa Claus reality....

2010-11-18

This tribute by Janice Kapp Perry to her husband Doug is what every spouse should read who wants a happy marriage....

2010-10-21

It's one thing to write a song. It's another thing entirely to live up to the inspirational words....

2010-09-16

When I was in prison, ye visited me. The Perry’s took an inmate home to live with them and watched firsthand what the atonem...

2010-08-19

Janice Kapp Perry has co-written over 80 hymns with a dear friend who is now dying of cancer....

2010-07-15

Janice Kapp Perry writes, ‘When I decided I wanted to write music, as a 38 year old, I had nothing to recommend me except a ...

2010-07-15

Janice Kapp Perry writes, ‘When I decided I wanted to write music, as a 38 year old, I had nothing to recommend me except a ...

2010-06-18

A father's example of faith molds the life of his daughter, even before she is born....

2010-05-21

When Doug and Janice Kapp Perry took a performance tour of Taiwan, they learned that their music speaks more than one language....

2009-11-03

As the hymn writer for As Sisters in Zion, Janice Kapp Perry had long wondered about the lyricist, a pioneer woman who became h...

2009-04-27

Janice Kapp Perry could think of many reasons why she and her husband shouldn't take a musical tour of Japan and only one reaso...

2009-04-27

One of the most beloved songwriters in the Church shares what it took to find her talent....

2009-04-27

The writer of "I Love to See the Temple" and "A Child's Prayer" talks about how to harness your creative spark....

2009-04-27

With intimate stories and insights into writing tender songs, Janice leads us through the process of producing the work of a li...

2009-04-27

When Janice Kapp Perry's husband told her he had the impression she should write one hundred new hymns, she was astonished....

2009-04-27

After they returned from Chile, Doug and Janice Kapp Perry, have found that much of what happensFor the remainder of their live...

2009-04-27

Sitting contentedly in Church one day, Janice Kapp Perry was not prepared for the message that came clearly from the Spirit....

2009-04-27

Sitting contentedly in Church one day, Janice Kapp Perry was not prepared for the message that came clearly from the Spirit....

2009-04-27

I appreciate and respect great composers and their works and have been generously exposed to them through my years in BYU choru...

2009-01-05

I appreciate and respect great composers and their works and have been generously exposed to them through my years in BYU choru...

2007-12-13

All the memories of her lost baby were contained in a slender scrapbook. Now the scrapbook was missing. Would the memories be...