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In January 2019, Perris released "How Many Does It Take", a new single about addiction from his upcoming second English album "Who I'm Meant To Be". The single received critical acclaim, especially after Whoopi Goldberg posted the video of the song on her social media.

Perris and Frangoulis ended their joint tour with a sold-out performance at the historic Odeon of Herodes Atticus under the Acropolis in Athens with special guests Jorge Calandrelli and Tina Arena. The concert was called "Mediterranea" and was filmed for American Public Television. Perris performed 3 new songs from his upcoming English album to be released in 2017. Following the performance, critics wrote that Perris stole the performance and was the apocalypse of the evening.

In January 2017, Perris released a new single called "Pios fovate tin agapi" (Who's afraid of love) through Universal Music composed by acclaimed Greek composer Evanthia Reboutsika and lyrics by Aris Davarakis, making this his first original Greek song since 2008. He announced that a second single titled "Iliofania" would be released in the Spring. In February he performed his first solo shows in Greece in over 6 years to great acclaim.

In August, he joined Australian superstar Tina Arena on her Reset tour of Australia. In addition, Perris performed at Bangkok's 16th International Festival of Dance and Music in October along with Mario Frangoulis. They also gave two concerts in Turkey.

In April 2016, he announced on his official page on Facebook that he was recording an album of duets with fellow Greek tenor Mario Frangoulis and then touring Greece and Cyprus together. The album "Kivotos" / "Ark" was released on May 1 in Greece through the newspaper "Kathimerini" selling more than 65000 copies in one day. Subsequently, it was released in a deluxe package on May 10 in Greece and Cyprus, skyrocketing to #4 on the Greek album charts where it remained for 4 weeks. Perris embarked on a joint summer tour of Greece and Cyprus with Mario Frangoulis, playing in more than 17 dates.

His debut PBS special "Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center" was aired on PBS in the US from November 2015 to March 2016 to great success, allowing him to bring his "Picture This Tour" in the U.S. for the first time.

He spent most of 2013 recording his new English album. In November, he released I will wait for you/Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, the first song from this album for free. In January 2014 George Perris traveled to New York for his debut performance as an international ambassador of Horatio Alger Association at Jazz at Lincoln Center.This show titled ‘George Perris Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center’ was broadcast in spring 2014 on American cable networks, and released as the DVD titled "Live in New York" on August 15, 2014, in Australia. In May 2014 his debut English-language album titled Picture This was released in the US and Canada. For this album, Perris collaborated with producers Marco Marinangeli, Simon Hale, Mark Portmann and Michael Smidi Smith as well as the Prague Symphony Orchestra.The album was later released in Australia through Decca Records.

On November 17, 2014 George Perris performed the American National Anthem at Madison Square Garden at the New York Knicks and Washington Wizards Game.

In 2013 Perris toured extensively with Alkistis Protopsalti in Greece and Cyprus as well as performing in Montreal, Canada and Pasadena, California.

In the Spring of 2012, he released his third studio album Un Souhait in Canada. The album included 11 new songs in French, composed for him by some of the most acclaimed French-speaking songwriters as well as Ma Solitude, a duet with Belgian superstar Lara Fabian.

The release of the Un souhait album earlier in 2012 in Canada led to the Un Souhait Tour presented by the Horatio Alger Association for whom Perris serves as an International Ambassador. The last show of the tour was filmed and released on the Live à Montréal DVD exclusively on his website.

In 2011, Perris was invited by Stephan Moccio to participate in a concert in Toronto, Canada. He also performed with soprano Deborah Myers in Athens. This concert was broadcast on national television. In the summer, Perris toured with Mario Frangoulis in Turkey and a few months later he took part in a tribute concert to Mimis Plessas. He also recorded the a cappella single "Humana" adapted by Women of the World which was released the same year.

In 2010, Perris performed again in the US as part of Frangoulis' "Light of Greece" tour, performing concerts in Chicago, Boston and New York. He also traveled to Canada, as a guest of Stephan Moccio, performing at the Place des Arts in Montreal. Perris appeared in a 2010 production of Mikis Theodorakis' adaptation of March of the Spirit (poetry: Angelos Sikelianos). This show was performed in both Greece and Turkey, as part of an attempt to improve international relations between the two countries.

In 2009, international diva Lara Fabian invited him to open some concerts of her 2009 European tour, including 2 sold-out performances at the Zénith Paris. During the same year, he also performed in Boston, as a guest of the Greek Institute, and also in St. Petersburg, Russia and London with the Oxford Philomusica.

The following year he toured with acclaimed Greek tenor Mario Frangoulis. Frangoulis invited him back for his "Mario & Friends" performance series at the Athens Arena where he appeared on stage with international artists such as Lucio Dalla, Justin Hayward, Madeleine Peyroux, Lara Fabian and Frances Ruffelle. As a result, 2 live albums were released in 2008 and 2009, Mario & Friends 1 and Mario & Friends 2 which were both certified platinum album. In April 2008, Perris also released his second studio album Pairno anasa with Sony Music. The album featured Stis gis tin akri, a duet with Mario Frangoulis. He wrote and composed almost half of the songs on that record. Perris continued touring in 2009, performing in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey.

Perris' performing career began at the age of 18, when he was invited to tour with composer Mimis Plessas. He was featured on Plessas' 2006 album Mimis Plessas and the Jazz Quartet Live. His first solo album, Kainouria mou mera (My new day) was released in 2005 by EMI and included the hit songs "Pezi o erotas" which was the theme song from the TV series "Erotas", as well as "Karavani" which was included in a compilation created by Radio Française.