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Oregon Musician Perry Gerber Releases First Album of Original Music
After More Than 50 Years of Making Music

Paris-filmed "Mon Amour" earns international festival recognition; album release celebrations set for Portland and Lincoln City

PORTLAND, Ore. - September 1, 2026 - Oregon singer-songwriter Perry Gerber, 63, is releasing Dead For Awhile, his first full album of original music, after a musical career spanning more than five decades.

The album's music video, "Mon Amour," filmed on location in Paris, has received international recognition, including finalist honors at the Porto Music Video Festival, International Indie Film & Screenplay Festival and Love International Film Festival; an Honorable Mention from the Europe Music Video Awards; and additional official selections.

The video grew out of an earlier Paris collaboration. In 2024, Perry's wife, manager and executive producer Debbie Gerber appeared in the film Face Under the Face, where she met filmmaker Joan Marshall and cinematographer Prakash Tharakan. Marshall and Tharakan worked together again in Paris in 2025 to create Mon Amour, starring Perry and Debbie and filmed throughout the city.

Creative Director Dawn Sellers was an essential part of bringing Mon Amour to life. Sellers is a local filmmaker and writer with award-winning screenplay credits and a popular podcast.

Gerber will celebrate the album with two Oregon release events featuring a full-band performance, opening act Sleeper Wave, and a screening of Mon Amour:

Saturday, October 3 - McMenamins Mission Theater, Portland Saturday, November 7 - Beach Club Event Center, Lincoln City

Perry and Debbie Gerber are available for morning-show interviews, and Perry is available for an in-studio acoustic performance. Broadcast-quality video, photographs, music, album artwork and additional media materials are available.

MEDIA CONTACT

Debbie Gerber - Manager & Executive Producer 503-807-0578 | perrygerbermusic@gmail.com | www.perrygerber.com

PERRY GERBER - ARTIST BIO

Perry Gerber has been making music for more than 50 years. Now, at 63, he is releasing his first full album of original music.

Gerber grew up in Lincoln City, Oregon, and bought his first bass guitar at age 12 with money from his first paycheck at Gallucci's Pizza. That purchase began a relationship with music that has lasted most of his life.

Gerber never stopped playing during his four years in the U.S. Marines. At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, he played bass in a heavy-metal band performing Judas Priest and Iron Maiden at a biker bar improbably named The Smurfs - a blue building decorated with Smurfs. Later, while stationed in Okinawa, he performed both in a heavy-metal band and an All-Marine band playing enlisted clubs.

After leaving the Marines, Gerber continued working as a bass player. Among those chapters was a stint with the North Santiam Band alongside a young Sara Evans, before her rise to country music stardom. The band opened for Willie Nelson at one festival, and at a separate event Gerber appeared on a bill with a then-just-starting-out Tim McGraw.

For the past 15 years, Gerber has moved from behind the bass to front and center as a lead singer and guitarist, performing primarily vintage music from the 1960s and '70s throughout the Pacific Northwest.

With the songs already written, Gerber made the decision to take them into the studio. The result is Dead For Awhile, an 11-song album of original music and a new chapter in a musical life that began more than half a century ago.

In 2024, Perry's wife and manager, actor Debbie Gerber, appeared in the Paris-made film Face Under the Face, where she met filmmaker Joan Marshall and cinematographer Prakash Tharakan. The experience planted the idea of bringing Perry's song “Mon Amour” to life on film.

In 2025, Marshall and Tharakan worked together again in Paris to create the music video for “Mon Amour,” starring Perry and Debbie and filmed on location throughout the city. Creative Director Dawn Sellers was an essential part of bringing the project to life. Sellers is a local filmmaker and writer with award-winning screenplay credits and a popular podcast.

The finished video has since received international festival recognition, including finalist honors at the Porto Music Video Festival, International Indie Film & Screenplay Festival and Love International Film Festival, as well as an Honorable Mention from the Europe Music Video Awards and additional official selections.

This fall, Perry brings the album - and Mon Amour - home to Oregon. He will celebrate Dead For Awhile on October 3 at McMenamins Mission Theater in Portland and November 7 at the Beach Club Event Center in Lincoln City. Both events will feature opening act Sleeper Wave, a screening of Mon Amour, and Perry performing with a full backing band.

The Lincoln City show brings Perry back to the town where the story began - more than 50 years after a 12-year-old boy used his first paycheck to buy a bass guitar.

MEDIA CONTACT

Debbie Gerber - Manager & Executive Producer 503-807-0578 | perrygerbermusic@gmail.com | www.perrygerber.com