Perry Farrell

Perry Farrell interests me less as a singer and more as an architect of moments. Coming out of Queens and Miami, he fused punk, metal and psychedelia in Jane's Addiction, but his real genius was reimagining how music gets experienced communally. He treats the stage like a ritual space, and that instinct reshaped a whole generation's idea of what a live event could be. The surfer-singer-actor sprawl could read as scattered, yet to me it reflects a refusal to be boxed in. He is, in the truest sense, a maker of culture rather than just a maker of songs, and I respect that restlessness.

Name (English)

Perry Farrell

Name (Japanese)

ペリー・ファレル

Reading

ぺりー・ふぁれる

Born

March 29, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / actor / guitarist / surfer / composer

High school

North Miami Beach High School

• Official sitehttps://perryfarrell.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/perryfarrellofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/perryfarrell
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20Farrell
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918838

Tags

• New York
• singer
• actor
• guitarist

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.