We are doing 10 stadiums and several arenas. Until October, we will be on the road for one month, rest for two weeks and then back on the roads for another month, then rest again for two weeks, so on and so forth. “We are doing 58 shows, starting in the East Coast at the Madison Square Garden in New York City where we perform for two more weeks, and end in the West Coast at The Forum in Los Angeles.
#The journey back arnel portable#
“I bring with me a portable alkaline-water dispenser. Nag-vo-vocalize ako.”Īccording to most singers whom I interviewed, the best place to exercise your vocal cords is in the bathroom. Tumitigas sila so nagbabago ang quality nila. Kapag ang muscles hindi nagagalaw, hindi ginagalaw, they harden at nakakalimutan ‘yung routine nila. How else do you protect (preserve) your voice? Hangga’t gusto ako ng Journey, okey lang.” Hehehe!!!”īut retirement will be long from now. “I think I’ll resume drinking beer when I retire. Between meals, I continue to take alkaline water.”
I am a great believer in alkaline water which lessens the acid in my system.” You cough in the morning and you think it’s caused by phlegm, pero ‘yon pala acid. Good for the vocal cords, especially if you take it in the morning.” “I take enough, at least eight glasses a day. Feeling ko mas malakas ako mas maganda ang mood ko.” Masarap ang pakiramdam, magaan ang pakiramdam, hindi ka bloated. But I don’t deprive my body of nutrients. My last meal for the day is at around 6 p.m. “I take small meals three times a day - Breakfast at 6 or 7 a.m., let my body digest what I eat, and then I have lunch. Here’s our Conversation with Arnel before he and his family boarded their PAL flight to Tokyo: We all know what happened next, don’t we? And then he hit the big time when Journey discovered him. At one point, he slept on the streets for two years or in public parks or on a bench outside a friend’s house, earning a meager keep by selling glass bottles, newspapers and scrap metals to recyclers, sometimes surviving on Marie biscuits.įast-forward: At 15, he became the lead singer of a group called Ijos that performed at a pizza parlor on Taft Avenue, Manila before joining another group called Amo. The mom who pushed him into singing the songs of Karen Carpenter and Barbra Streisand (his childhood favorites) died of a heart disease when Arnel was 13, leaving the family in debt and prompting his father to leave Arnel and his siblings in the care of relatives. 5, 1967, in Tondo, Manila, to Restituto Lising Pineda and Josefina Manansala Campaner) to the international stage serving in good stead the Journey vocalist Steve Perry who quit the band in 2006.
In retrospect, Arnel recalled (there was a sweet feeling in the rehash) his journey from a poor boy (born on Sept. Along with comembers Gregg Rolie (keyboard), Aynsley Dunbar (drummer) and Steve Perry (lead vocalist), Journey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the class of 2017. Arnel (center) with the current Journey, from left: Ross Valory (bass), Steve Smith (drummer), Neal Schon (guitarist) and Jonathan Cain (keyboard).
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