[5] Being more than six months behind on their apartment rent and unable to sufficiently provide for the family, his father decided to move out and ask relatives to take in Pineda's siblings.

He spent about two years on the streets, sleeping wherever he could: in public parks, or on a narrow bench outside a friend's crowded house.

He earned meager money by collecting glass bottles, newspapers, and scrap metal and selling them to recyclers.

Amo was very popular in the Chinese-owned California Jam club in Olongapo City, which was frequented by United States military personnel.

Most of the album's ten original songs were slow ballads, with only two upbeat numbers, one of which carries a Latin style.

Earlier that year, Pineda formed a new band, eventually called 9mm, and played around the city's top bars including the Hard Rock Cafe in Makati.

[citation needed] In 2004, three members of New Age reformed with a female singer sharing lead vocals with Pineda and called themselves Most W@nted.

This band played 3-4 hour long sets Monday through Saturday at The Cavern Club in Hong Kong.

A band named The Visitors was briefly formed for promotion purposes of the Dayo soundtrack consisting of three members from Ijos/Yjoz, Amo, New Age and Most W@nted.

They formed The Zoo with Emil Bondoc on bass, Edgar Mendoza on keyboards, and Mckoy Alcantara on drums.

The Zoo's first album Zoology was released by MCA Universal in September 2007 featuring 12 original tracks and one cover song ("Pain in My Heart" was originally recorded a decade earlier by Second Wind), five of which were penned by Pineda, and another was co-written by Pineda and Mark Valliente.

[10][11] Videos of The Zoo performing cover songs by Journey, Survivor, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Stryper and other popular acts from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, began appearing on YouTube in February 2007.

[13] On August 12,[14] Pineda, along with his manager Bert de Leon, flew to Marin County, just north of San Francisco, for a week of auditioning.

"[21] Journey keyboardist/guitarist Jonathan Cain described Pineda's performance in a radio interview: "We went to Chile just recently, where we had never played and they went crazy, they absolutely went nuts... Arnel's first show—talk about a stressful thing—we had a televised concert for 25 million people... Is the guy a winner?

"[22] Journey returned to the United States for a private RE/MAX Convention event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 6, 2008, then performed at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood on March 8, 2008 (this concert was recorded and used, in part, for the Revelation DVD).

The US version of the album (distributed exclusively through Wal-Mart) consists of ten new songs ("Faith in the Heartland" was co-written and originally recorded by vocalist Steve Augeri and S. Augeri is credited as songwriter in the liner notes of this album) and 12 re-recorded classics, plus a live-in-concert DVD filmed during the March 8, 2008, concert in Las Vegas.

The European version distributed through Frontiers Records contains 11 new songs, 11 re-recorded classics, plus one new bonus track, but does not include the DVD.

All of the music on Revelation was produced by Kevin Shirley (who previously worked with Journey on their Platinum-certified Trial by Fire album).

Jonathan Cain described the album in an interview: We recorded our greatest hits with our brand new singer from the Philippines, Arnel Pineda, and it's unbelievable when you listen to it.

The US tour (with Heart and Cheap Trick) began on July 9, 2008, in Denver, Colorado, and continued through October 4, 2008, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Behind the Songs posted an FB clip of his struggle to reach the high notes of “Don't Stop Believin'” on September 21, 2023.

[33] Pineda met Donald Trump at the White House in 2017 with two other members of Journey, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory.