For many people, the late 1980s and early 1990s may be marked with a voice that has become iconic, that voice took them down a “Gypsy Road” in a “Long Cold Winter.” That voice may be a reminder that we really don’t appreciate what we have until we lose it, or that we are just “Nobody’s Fool.”

Tom Keifer’s voice was that bluesy, soulful sound that moved fans through so much emotion and so much of what that period of time. Now, with his band, Keifer is going to bring that sound, a new one with a timeless feel.

Keifer is on the road, promoting his newest album, “Rise.” He is with the same band members that have been on the road with him since he released “The Way Life Goes” in 2013.

“This band has been with me since that time (2013),” he said. “It was one of those things where the band formed overnight for the purpose of touring after the album came out.”

It may seem a rather unorthodox way of assembling a group of people you want to make your music sound perfect on stage, but you have to remember that that was how that album was created.

“Well, The Way Life Goes was kind of a piecemeal thing,” Keifer said. “Savanah (Keifer’s wife and bandmate) and I wrote and recorded the music without the intent of setting out to make it an album. It just kind of happened.”

Keifer said the band was something that was meant to be and it has become a special thing.

“We were each in a place, a crossroads when the band came together,” he said. “There’s been a chemistry on and off the stage for the last seven years. That’s why Savanah and I decided it was time to do an album with these people we share our lives with.”

The lead track of the album, “Touching the Divine,” was written after an email Keifer and his wife received from a bandmate, Kendra Chantelle, Keifer said, as a note of gratitude.

“Savanah and Kendrah sat down and wrote that one from that email. In fact, most of the words of the chorus came out of that email,” Keifer said.

The bond with is band and his wife are one of the things Keifer said keeps him going through all of the ups and downs his career, and his life, has had.

“You know, since surrounding myself with these great artists, I have felt renewed,” he said. “Sure, there have been those ups and downs, those rises and falls, but having Savanah and the rest of the band there has given me the drive to keep it going.”

There was a time he thought his career would be over. In 1991, he woke up and found himself not able to sing, even talking was difficult.

“I had paresis of the left vocal chord,” Keifer said in a voice that sounded strong during a phone interview. “It’s a fancy way of saying I had a partial paralysis. I was told that there was a chance I would never sing again.”

For someone whose identity was to open his mouth and sing, the news was something Keifer said was a bit scary, but perseverance and a renewed drive gave him what he needed.

“I had to retrain my vocal cords,” he said. “Though the paresis will never go away, my voice is consistent and strong now. My vocal coach, Ron Anderson, taught me a technique to be able to strengthen it and to be where I need to be.”

Anderson taught him an opera technique to warm up and exercise his vocal cords.

“Who would have thought that a technique hundreds of years old would still work?” Keifer laughed.

All of the work to come back from the vocal problems, finding the perfect musicians to perfect the band’s sound, as well as the ability to call the band family, have put Keifer in a position to perform at a high level.

“You know, for people that saw me back in the Cinderella days, this show is the same kind of show,” Keifer said. “It’s a high-energy rock show. It’ll be a hybrid of the past and of the two newer albums. You’ll hear the songs we all remember form the Cinderella days and the new stuff from ‘The Way Life Goes’ and ‘Rise.’ You’ll see an amazing band that I have the privilege of being on stage with. It will be a great night of rock ‘n’ roll.”

Keifer and his band will perform at Seneca Niagara Casino on Friday.