
It’s those three words – don’t stop believin’. It really means so much to me now, and now every time that I go for something, it suddenly rings in my head.

And that’s when I finally realized, this song has been waiting for me to realize that it was the soundtrack of my life.

We had a good talk first and he invited me over to San Francisco and I met them. But in my head and in my heart I was not gonna stop because this is the only thing in the world that I can do really good and it takes me to a place that makes me really happy.Īnd then finally I met the band in 2007 through Mr. And I had my mentors in that band that were honing me to be a better singer.īut from the beginning I believed that there was something great that was going to happen to me. I was struggling with my life after my mother died and I went on to become this cover band singer in 1985, and I always told myself that I’m never gonna give up.
LEAD SINGER OF JOURNEY PROFESSIONAL
But when I became a professional singer, a cover singer at the age of 16 years old, “Open Arms” was the first song that I sang.īut “Don’t Stop Believin’” was there subconsciously. I got introduced to the band from that song on the album Escape, “Open Arms,” and that was the very first song I heard from them. Honestly, I was not a big fan of the song at first.

Can you talk about what that song has meant to you? You have the unique perspective of hearing it as a music fan first and then eventually joining the band that recorded it. First off, I wanted to ask about “Don’t Stop Believin’” because it’s being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame this year, and it’s not every song of consequence that gets inducted.
