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By Pocholo Concepcion
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:34:00 01/10/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones once said he’d rather be dead than still be singing “Satisfaction” at age 40. But he’s now 64 and just finished a world tour that made his band richer by $437 million.

Arnel Pineda has just turned 40 and the roller-coaster ride that has marked his profession as a rock singer is about to take a new turn. On Feb. 1 he will fly to the United States to start rehearsing and recording as the new vocalist of Journey -- the American band famous for its power ballads, and whose records have sold 75 million copies since 1973.

Landing the slot wasn’t exactly the biggest deal of his life. “At least [not] in the first few days after Neal Schon (Journey founder and lead guitarist) told me I was their new man,” Pineda said Wednesday in an interview at the Greenhills office of his manager, TV director Bert de Leon.

Pineda recalled telling himself, “This isn’t a very secure job; they can fire me anytime.”

But the thrill of everything that lay ahead -- performing as a Filipino musician who would certainly make his countrymen proud sank in soon enough. “I thought my Friendster account would explode with the volume of e-mail that poured in from Filipinos based in the US and Europe,” Pineda recounted. “But here at home, there was little noise about it. Lately na lang.”

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Scott thats great news! Steve Perry was the lead vocal before to that group. They have been around for a long while the most prettiest song they sang back during the 90's was "OH SHERI" the lead vocalist Perry had and awesome voice I hope that this home boy Pinoy rocker can produce similar hits and sounds where ever he happens to abound toward?
Great Job!