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Journey Biography

Profession Soundtrack, Music department

Fast Facts

  • The band has achieved 19 Top 40 singles during their career and produced 25 Gold and Platinum albums
  • Was honored with the Legend of Live Award at the Billboard Touring Awards in 2011 in recognition of the band's contributions to live music and commitment to their fans
  • Their "Greatest Hits" album was certified Diamond, a status awarded to an album that is certified 15 times Platinum
  • Their first number one album was 1981's "Escape," which spent more than a year in the Top 40 charts and was certified eight times Platinum
  • Signed with Columbia Records in 1974 and released their first three albums, "Journey," "Look Into the Future," and "Next," in the following three years
  • The original band that formed in San Francisco in 1973 was made up of former Santana lead guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist and lead vocalist Gregg Rolie and former Frumious Bandersnatch bassist Ross Valory and rhythm guitarist George Tickner
  • Best known as a progressive rock band whose hit songs include "Don't Stop Believin'," "Faithfully," and "Any Way You Want It․"
  • The current members of the band are guitarist Neal Schon, keyboardist Jonathan Cain, bassist Ross Valory, drummer Deen Castronovo, and lead vocalist Arnel Pineda
  • The band found their lead singer Arnel Pineda in 2006 on YouTube, where he had posted videos of himself singing with a Filipino cover band called the Zoo
  • Their song "Don't Stop Believin'" was famously made memorable to a new generation of listeners when it was used in the finale of "The Sopranos" in 2007 and when it was covered by the cast of "Glee" in 2009