Janice Kapp Perry was born in Ogden, Utah, and currently lives in Provo, Utah. She and her husband Douglas Perry (deceased July 2018) have 5 children, 13 grandchildren, and 20 great grandchildren. They also had numerous foster children in their home through the years. Janice received her formal musical training at Brigham Young University where she played percussion instruments in the Concert Band and Orchestra.
In 1979 Janice released her first album of original songs, Where Is Heaven. Since that first album she has compiled an impressive list of productions: Almost 3,000 songs, 108 recorded albums, 2 full-length musicals, 8 sacred cantatas, and albums in Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese. She composed the hymn As Sisters in Zion in the LDS hymnbook and has ten songs in the Primary Children's Songbook. Janice’s works have been performed by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, The Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus, Brooks & Dunn, Gladys Knight, and many others. What began as a simple home hobby has literally spread throughout the world and has involved the entire family. Author Joy Saunders Lundberg says “Janice has been hailed by some as the most prolific composer in the history of the church—she is the musical phenomenon of our time.”
Janice sang in The Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1993 to 1999. She and Douglas served a full-time mission to Santiago Chile from 2002-03 and a three-year church service mission in a Spanish ward in Provo. She continues writing, publishing and recording new music. In 2009 BYU-TV produced a sixty-minute documentary entitled Janice Kapp Perry: A Life of Service and Song. In a poll published in LDS Living magazine (January 2013) entitled “100 Greatest LDS Songs of All Time,” Janice’s song A Child’s Prayer was number #1. Seven of her other songs were in the top 27.