Paul Delacerda is a retired Army staff sergeant and drummer from Houston. He plays drums in a band called Warrior Spirit, made up of disabled Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.



Paul DeLaCerda has been drumming for nearly three decades. Recalls Paul: "My father was a mariachi guitarist but when I heard my uncle playing drums, I knew that was the instrument for me. At the age of 15, I joined my first band using my uncle's drumkit that he had given me."



Paul DeLaCerda drummed for several heavy metal bands before he enlisted the army. He is diagnosed with traumatic brain injury from a bomb blast that almost destroyed his Humvee in Iraq in 2005.