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On January 22, 1949 in Hanford, California, a small rural town located in the San Joaquin Valley, Mary C. (nee: Quaresma) Perry (Perriera) and Raymond F. Perry welcome into the world their only child - a son whom they named Stephen Ray Perry.

Stephen Ray Perry was born at 6:05 p.m. at Kings County General Hospital. As an infant Mary's parents, Steve’s grandparents, left the island of Pico in the Azores Archipelago of Portugal with their daughter in their arms as they came through Ellis Island.

Steve became the first Portuguese family member to be born in America. At 6 months of age Steve was baptized at the Heart of Mary Church of Hanford.

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Steve grew up fluent in both Portuguese and English as well as being a very energetic child. Steven recalled that early in his life at the age of three he knew that music was inside of him and that he and music were meant to be together.

Both Mary and Raymond were singers and Steve remembers as a small child sitting with his grandmother as h