“Since I was five years old, when my mom was still alive, she would just call me. And we would listen to the radio with Barbra Streisand and Karen Carpenter, and she would ask me to sing with her.”

Filipino singer and songwriter

Arnel Pineda is a Filipino singer and songwriter who came to prominence in the Philippines in the 1980s. He is best known as the lead singer of the American rock band Journey, a role that brought him international attention in 2007. Before that, he had already built a reputation at home as a performer. His name is most closely associated with rock music and with the unusual path that carried him from local recognition to a global stage.