Steve Perry photo shows ex-Journey singer in good spirits Steve Perry smiles, with surgical scar plainly visible. Twitter Steve Perry, the former frontman of Journey, revealed he had surgery to remove a cancerous mole from his cheek last month. In an emotional blog post last week, Perry said his prognosis was good after the mole was removed and he underwent two other surgeries to remove all cancer cells. "I've been told they think they got it all and no other treatments are required," he wrote. Perry ran into radio host Martha Quinn, who snapped a photo with the singer and posted it to her Twitter.