On a day dubbed "Comeback Day" by The Band Perry, the sibling trio launched their new single "Comeback Kid", broadcast to their fans on Facebook Live for 24 hours straight, and started a new fundraising campaign for Teen Cancer America (TCA) and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
The Band Perry announced the beginning of a $1 million fundraising campaign by donating $25,000 they won on Celebrity Family Feud to the fund with the goal of expanding the Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer program in Nashville.
The band plans to support the fundraising effort throughout the year with various fundraising efforts, and the band said a lot of the passion for helping children and teens with cancer came from their upbringing.
“Our father is actually a pediatrician and as we were growing up we got to know and witness so many of his teenage patients who were struggling with cancer," Kimberly Perry said. "In addition to not only having to do things like homework and go through the perils of teenage love relationships, to add the struggle of cancer on top of that is a lot for a kid, and TCA does the best job in providing services for those teenagers to help make that moment just a little simpler.”
Reid Perry agreed, adding that this fundraising campaign is the least they can do for their fans who have supported them. “Teens and adolescents and young adults, they kind of gave us our career, so for the three of us, this was the kind of, the one thing that we could pay it forward a little bit, so that’s why we’re so happy to be part of Teen Cancer America.”
During the check presentation at the single release party, TCA board member and First Citizens Bank's chief strategy officer Jeff Ward announced that First Citizens Bank would be matching The Band Perry's $25,000 donation. “These cancer units are so critical. There’s no better treatment for teens than other teens.”
In addition to the fundraising announcement, The Band Perry released their first single from their new album, a song called "Comeback Kid".
“Comeback Kid is probably the most intensely personal lyric that we’ve ever written," Kimberly Perry said. “It’s a story of anybody who’s walked through a challenging time and come out the other side on their feet and so much wiser for having gone through it.”
This is the first song the band has released in a year, and they said the song reflects a lot of what they went through between the last song they released and "Comeback Kid".
“It was really important to us on Comeback Kid that we told the real life narrative of everything that we’ve been thinking and feeling over the past year." Kimberly Perry explained. "It’s no secret to anybody that we’ve gone through an amazing transformation. One that ended in such a bright and beautiful place, but it had it’s moments along the way of real and true struggle.”
At this time the album has not been named, but the band hopes to have it released by the end of 2016, and they hope to tour the album shortly thereafter.
“We’re really looking forward to doing an album tour that will take place at some point next year," Kimberly said.
The band also broadcast on Facebook Live for 24 hours straight, starting on their tour bus and making their way to Nashville, where they went to Pancake Pantry, invited their fans to have some ice cream and lemonade shave ice, and they played their new song, as well as some others, as their single release party.
For more information on Teen Cancer America, you can visit their website: www.teencanceramerica.org.
