Perry was born and raised in New Orleans, LA and due to Hurricane Katrina and her aftermath, he is now living in a retirement home in Austin, TX. The following excerpt was taken from an interview with Perry in March 2007, "Things are goin' slow down there, up here its just day-by day living. Yeah, it's all right. I been back for the Mardis Gras, it was pretty much fun down there. But the things in the place wasn't the same, the neighborhoods were still torn up. After all those months, like sixteen months, it still looks like its just going slow, slow, slow. Mostly, I do a lot of praying and going to church mostly, since I been up here, and that's been keeping me strong. I participate in a lot of church things, I sing in the choir. I'm sort of doing the same thing that I did at home. So, I just found me a new church home, and I'm feeling like I'm right at home. It makes me feel strong. And I go to bible study, and it makes the days go better for me. I was like brought up in a small little church, and I sung, and I come up here and joined a little small church up here. I'm doing the same thing I did down there, I'm continuing on with my life. I think about going back, but, I think about the situation of the levees and the water. So, It’s just like, the place to me, is just like a bowl. Once the water comes it’s going to get full again, and the same thing is going to happen. I wouldn’t want to go through that again. I think its gonna be recovered. But it may be 10-20 years from now. The process they doing now is slow, too slow. I like to see them have a better situation when they came to rescue us. They did a great job, but it could’ve been better. It was a slow process. Strictly, I guess you can blame, you know, the army core of engineers with the levees. The levees wasn’t adequate. They know that the levees wasn’t adequate for a long time. They wasn’t up to date."
