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Hailed as a "notable" emerging artist by XM Radio, Pedro Pereira grew up on gritty rock and well-crafted pop. The songs on his debut CD "Last Man on the Planet" swing from longing to exuberance, sorrow to joy, contentment to disillusionment.

Just like life.

The songwriting on these tracks is informed by life experience, social observation and the life-affirming sense of wonder that comes with feeling "every turn," "filling your ears to the fullest sound" and savoring "each breath," as the artist sings ardently in "Before I Wake."

A journalist by trade, writer by passion and musician by chance, Pedro Pereira has compiled in "Last Man on the Planet" a collection of songs that will make you think, wonder, feel, laugh and commiserate. In the title track, the author pokes fun at everyday experiences that make you wonder if your way of thinking is so different from everybody else's that you start to feel you're the last soul on earth. "All these ghosts in the fog," he sings, "how do they ever find their step/And everybody looks like someone that I've already met." The song has been featured on XM Radio's The Radar Report.

Pereira pays tribute to his native island in songs such as “The Island,” in which he intones, “Born on a caldeira/in the middle of the sea/My ancestors planted bandeiras/passed the banner down to me,” and in “Saudade,” sung in Portuguese.

Pereira recorded “Last Man on the Planet” with producer Doug Kwartler, of Hollow Body Studios in Floral Park, N.Y. Undeniably a singer/songwriter, Pereira nevertheless transcends the constraints of that categorization with lovingly crafted arrangements that now rock without a hint of self-consciousness (“I’m Not Me”), now build into sonic tours de force that delight the senses (“Raining”).

“Last Man on the Planet” is for sale at cdbaby.com. Sound samples at myspace.com/pedromusic.

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