The now 40-year-old lifelong drummer Peter Gaudioso made his name playing post-Bop with Keith DeStefano’s Puzzlebox and Matt Davis' Aeriel Photograph in the late 1990s.



By 2000, Peter Gaudioso added open-mic host at Fergie's Pub to his resume, playing behind a rogue’s gallery of Philly singer/songwriters. The versatile rhythmist had a way with the acoustic cats, just as he had the jazz-bos. "My forte then was playing brushes and soft jazzy backbeats," says Peter Gaudioso.



After the tendinitis diagnosis, Peter Gaudioso threw himself into yoga every day of the week, both for his physical form and for his sanity. "I was crushed thinking that my art and career were being taken from me." With drumming off the table, all he could do was sing. And that became his savior — before it became his new calling. "I sang my way through it all," he says. "I was a social recluse, listening to music all day, feeling my heartache matched with the characters in song."