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Pepe was born in Casma - Peru, a town at north from the capital, Lima. Where the Caral civilization was developed at 2600 B.C., one of the oldest civilizations from the american continent, theire people didn't know weapons but they do know art.
Piedra has been drawing since his childhood and playing the drums since he was a teenager.
Graduated from the school of Fine Arts at 1987, he is a profesional artist and paints with surrealistic style with oils, acrylics and mixed media techniques.
Pepe Piedra became a pretty famous name in Peru once he started playing with Tierra Sur, a really popular reggae band. But before that, he has been playing with several groups and one of the most famous folklore bands in Peru, Yawar. Later he moves to Washington DC - USA and founds in 1998 the RAYMI Band fussioning latin-folk rhythms with Rock and Reggae.
On 1984, he started teaching art at Summer Camps in Trujillo (Peruvian North Cost), then he moved to Lima (Peruvian Capital) and he kept teaching aswell. At present he is still teaching art at Henson Valley Montessori School in Temple Hills, Maryland - USA, and teaching artists to be in his Blue Moon Studio School in Washington DC Area.