Pedro Subercaseaux García de la Huerta (Santiago, April 17, 1978), better known by his stage name Pedropiedra, is a Chilean musician and composer. In addition to his solo career including five studio albums, he has also served as drummer for Jorge González' and 31 minutos' bands, as well as being member of several other bands such as CHC (2001-2009) and the superband Pillanes since 2018 as a multi-instrumentalist.
Biography and career
Childhood and adolescence
He is son of the painter Juan Subercaseaux Sommerhoff and Paula García de la Huerta Echaurren. During his childhood in the commune of San Bernardo in the southern sector of Santiago de Chile, Subercaseaux began self-taught on the guitar and drums. He has pointed out that his first influences were the group The Beatles, a taste that he inherited from his mother, Michael Jackson, Los Prisioneros and Soda Stereo, in addition to romantic music in Spanish.
Beginnings in several bands
During his adolescence he forged friendship and collaboration ties with musicians who would later be part of his professional bands, such as Vicente Sanfuentes with whom he founded Los Hermanos Brothers in 2001 and Jorge del Campo and Federico Dannemann, with whom he formed Wanted and who today are part of his backing band.
The band Tropiflaite was formed during their professional music studies at the Escuela Moderna de Música together with Jorge del Campo, Roberto Chicho Espinoza, Diego Las Heras, and Andrés Pérez. This band was dedicated to playing music for weddings, including cumbias and songs by El Puma Rodríguez and Raffaella Carrá. The band lasted only 2 years and they recorded an album called Grandes Éxitos, produced by Juan Carlos Tato Gómez, a former member of Clan 91 and Embrujo. Discouraged and uncomfortable with the poor result of this production, the band disbanded in 2004.
In 2002, Pedro together with Vicente Sanfuentes formed an electronic and rhyming duo called Hermanos Brothers. Driven in part by the success of the 2002 Santiago single and video, they won the MTV award for Best Independent Artist in 2003. The video was directed by Pablo León. This same year Pedro works at CHC (Congregation of Contemplative Brothers), simultaneously. The band is made up of Gabriel Díaz, Sebastián Silva and for the third album called La cosa, Andrea Ducci and the former Tropiflaite Jorge del Campo and Roberto Espinoza would join.
Other groups in which he participates, in parallel to CHC, was Yaia (a group made up of Sebastian Silva and Nea Ducci, members of his previous band, and Lady Clarita, his sister). They only recorded an album in 2005 called Good Morning, produced by Pedro for Mutante Records. The music they played was mainly Afro-Caribbean genres, more focused on dub and reggae. In Yaia, he participates as the lead voice, guitarist and programmer. In this group his stage name was Pita.
He also worked on the soundtrack for the films by former CHC member Sebastián Silva, Life Kills Me (2007), La Nana (2009) and Crystal Fairy (2013). He made the music for the preschool program based on 31 minutos, Tulio, Patana and little Tim's vacation, in addition to participating in the album Yo nunca ví televisión, an album tribute to the mentioned Chilean children's series, where he makes a version of the song "Mr. Glove". Other collaborations are on the Surtek Collective album The Birth of Action, where he raps under the pseudonym Peter Rap, with Mr. Coconut (Uwe Schmidt) for a compilation called Coconut FM where he produced and composed songs. He sang the song "Sin Gravedad" for a Pol Infante project called Spatial Effects in 2008 and played bass and chorus for Hungría in 2006 with Gepe.