Journey faced a very hard road back to the top after parting ways with Steve Perry in They came close to their first tour since just a couple years earlier, but Perry injured his hip during a hike in Hawaii and needed major surgery. By the end of he was gone and Journey seemed to be headed into oblivion. The public was hungry for more Journey, but they were a band with a major lead singer problem. Out of desperation they turned to YouTube and discovered Jeremey Hunsicker, the frontman of the Journey tribute band Frontiers. They flew him to California for an audition and came close to having him on the dotted line, but it ultimately collapsed. Right around this time, Journey guitarist Neal Schon went back onto YouTube and discovered a series of live videos by Filipino band the Zoo fronted by year-old Arnel Pineda. But the band truly shined when they played Journey. A stunned Neal Schon flew Pineda out to California, and soon enough was telling the world that Journey found their new singer in Manila. It was a bold move to debut a new singer in front of such a large audience, but Pineda was quite up to the task.


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Follow Billboard. All rights reserved. The resurgence of Journey through the band's discovery of a new lead singer via the Internet gets a close-up look on a new PBS documentary. It's the story of how Journey guitarist Neal Schon found a replacement for front man Steve Perry by searching YouTube videos, and the band's eventual integration of Arnel Pineda into its lineup. Some longtime Journey fans were initially reluctant to accept the presence of Pineda, a year-old Filipino singer, into an American band that had been dominated by Perry's presence and soaring vocals. Cain recalled doing a concert in a U.
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This is how it goes when you are Steve Perry. Everyone is excited to see you, and no one can quite believe it. In , an ambitious but middlingly successful San Francisco jazz-rock band called Journey went looking for a new lead singer and found Mr. Perry, then a year-old veteran of many unsigned bands.
Arnel Campaner Pineda born September 5, [1] is a Filipino singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the Philippines during the s and internationally in as the new lead singer of the American rock band Journey. Arnel Pineda was born on September 5, , at St. Growing up, his parents entered him in many singing contests. His mother, who had been suffering from heart disease, died when he was 13 years old. Her illness had left their family deep in debt. To ease his father's burden, Pineda quit school and started working. He spent about two years on the streets, sleeping wherever he could: in public parks, or on a narrow bench outside a friend's crowded house.