Peter Derek

Writing, arranging, and recording all his own songs and performing and playing each instrument himself, Peter Derek makes his presence known with a unique,creative, and powerful sound all his own. Using his passionate and melodic voice along with grand, sing along anthems of raw defiance, rebellion, and sexuality, Peter's music invokes a wide screen cinematic landscape that is both primal and sophisticated.
Born in Houston to rough and humble beginnings and writing and performing since the age of fifteen, he has honed and crafted his songwriting while playing the club circuit from Texas and Louisiana to New York (where he lived for several years.) With a recent move across country and the completion of his EP "Hedonist", he is continuing to write and record new songs in hopes to "raise some hell and shake things up a bit" from his new base in L.A.
"In my opinion, songs are given, not made. They can never be forced. You must seduce the muse in order to receive her secrets. The creative process itself is a tumultuous entity. If it were to take a human form, it would be abusive. It tears at you, tugs, calls for you at the oddest times. Demanding your undivided attention. A river dragging you in with the force of it's undertow. Where ever it leads, it is wise to follow. It must be expelled from within if we are to maintain our sanity. Many of the great writers, musicians, architects, etc., traded in their reason to stay connected to it's sound. A ceaseless howling they readily received. Removing any obstacles, like rationality, that could block it's signal. Not even the safety of sleep is immune to it. You must rise when it asks and prepare to take dictation. You are never the bedrock from which ideas flow, simply the vehicle for which it chooses to communicate. Only the messenger, never the maestro. Take it all in and put it all down."