Del Mar’s Steve Perry, Ex-Frontman for Journey, Reveals Skin Cancer

In 2005, the Chicago White Sox adopted Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing as their rally song on the way to a World Series title. Now the legendary rock band’s lead singer is hoping for a victory over cancer.

Steve Perry of Del Mar, the onetime frontman for Journey, revealed last week that he’s undergone surgery for skin cancer.

“Three weeks ago, a routine mole was taken off my face and the lab report came back melanoma skin cancer,” Perry wrote on his blog Thursday. “I’ve had two surgeries in two weeks to remove all the cancer cells and I’ve been told they think they got it all and no other treatments are required.”

Perry, 64, also mourned his girlfriend, Kellie Nash, who died in December 2012 after battling breast cancer.

“Though Kellie and I were only together for 1 1/2 years, it was a lifetime of love packed into every moment,” Perry wrote. “God bless my precious Kellie. I loved you before I met you—I love you now—and I always will!”

Perry said he lived in New York for nine months in 2012 for her chemotherapy, “and the drug kept her alive with a quality of life. We had the most magical summer of our lives together. She was doing really well till August.”

They returned to California in November, he said, “and I lost my precious Kellie December 14th 2012.”