Steve perry 2013 biography journey
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BEVERLY HILLS, Ca (CBS SF/AP)- The resurgence of the Bay Area band, "Journey" through the band's discovery of a new lead singer via the Internet gets a close-up look on a new PBS documentary.
"Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey" airs on Sept. 30 as part of the network's Independent Lens series.
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.
It wasn't easy.
Some longtime "Journey" fans were 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.
Pineda joined "Journey" in December Schon says Pineda reinvigorated the group famous for such hits as "Don't Stop Believin'," "Faithfully" and "Open Arms."
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Steve Perry interview: the return of The Voice
Some words he sang in have echoed down the years: ‘Don’t stop believin’, hold on to that feeling…’ And yet in the life of Steve Perry there was a long period, the best part of 20 years, when his belief in music, and the feeling he put into it, seemed lost forever.
For the man whose richly expressive, high-arcing voice helped Journey to become one of the biggest rock groups in America in the 80s, the now year-old’s solo album, Traces, is a surprise comeback. It ends a self-imposed exile from the music business that began soon after Trial By Fire, his final album with Journey, released in – the year in which Oasis and the Spice Girls ruled the British charts, Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill was the biggest-selling album in America, Bill Clinton was in the White House and John Major was at Number
As Perry says now: “I had lost that deep passion in my heart for the inner joy of songwriting and singing. I sort of let it all go. If it came back, great; if it didn’t, so be it, because I’d already lived the dream of dreams.”
His long absence from public life has made Perry something of an enigma; the guy who had it all and walked