After being criticized on-line for his efficiency throughout Journey’s current look at Rock in Rio, lead singer Arnel Pineda says he’ll give up the band if sufficient followers vote “go” on his Facebook web page.

Journey carried out on the annual Brazilian pageant final Sunday (Sept. 15), and video of Pineda struggling to hit the suitable notes was circulated on-line. “No one more than me in this world feels so devastated about this,” the singer posted on Facebook. “It’s really amazing how [a] thousand right things you have done will be forgotten just cause of THIS… and of all the place[s], it’s Rock in Rio. Mentally and emotionally, I’ve suffered already, and I’m still suffering.”

After thanking all of the followers which have attended Journey reveals this 12 months, and saying that he feels “immense gratitude, humility and honor” each time he is on stage with the group, Pineda provided to stroll away if sufficient followers say that is what they need: “So here’s the deal now, I am offering you a chance (especially those who hated me and never liked me from the very beginning) to simply text GO or STAY right here.. and if GO reaches 1 million… I’m stepping out for good.”

As of press time roughly 2,600 folks have commented, and it seems that almost all are within the “STAY” camp. Journey guitarist Neal Schon made his emotions clear in a Facebook remark in regards to the story: “Arnel dont listen to these blogs. They are all bought. You’ve kicked ass!”

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Pineda has been Journey’s lead singer since 2007, and this isn’t the primary time he is provided to step apart. In 2014, whereas noting that he would “never quit” the band, Pineda declared he would fortunately bow out if former singer Steve Perry ever needed to return: “He can take over too. It’s his righteous place anyway..wanna see them happy together. I’d be more than happy to give way,” he mentioned, including, “As long as they need me, I will be there.”

In the Rock in Rio video Pineda will be seen struggling along with his in-ear screens. In 2022, drummer Deen Castronovo revealed that the singer had solved long-running vocal points by working with a vocal coachm and since the band turned down their onstage quantity.

“To think that he’s been struggling with this for 14 years, he said. I had no idea. I think it was something that he didn’t know if he had the liberty to say, ‘Hey, I need to fix this’ or ‘You guys need to try something different here,’ either get a new soundman or whatever,” Castronovo defined. “But once we got this guy, Tom, everything changed. He’s a different guy. [Pineda’s] a different guy. Oh, my God, it blew us away. I think it’s been 15 shows since that [change], and every night, he sounds amazing.“