Place of Birth: Campo Shell, Punta Cardón, Falcón State, Venezuela. He took his first musical steps hand in hand with his parents, who were composers of several Venezuelan waltzes. With some knowledge of piano, his father made him play some melodies of short songs using his right hand while he played harmonies with his left, planting a musical seed in the little boy that never stopped growing. In elementary school, along with his four siblings, he participated in dozens of musical performances of the Cumana and Ciudad Bolívar schools where he studied. At that time he began to explore the Venezuelan cuatro, watching some friends play some easy songs in D major. At high school, he played the lyre as part of the San Vicente de Paul band in Ciudad Bolívar. During elementary school he became a self-taught student of cuatro, recorder and harmonica. At high school he received classical guitar classes with maestro Ramón Hurtado and he also studied of music theory by himself. He used to practice piano, visiting a friend who has one at home until his father bought one. In order to complete his studies in Mechanical Engineering, he moved to Puerto La Cruz. For his family those studies were particularly important, and he was expected to be devoted to them with no distractions from other activities, but then, hidden from his father, at the age of 17 he auditioned with the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Barcelona and was selected to play the double bass. He was able to play for 4 months, until he was caught by his father who made him promise not to get around music and concentrate on his engineering career But again, a year later, music called him, and he secretly joined the choir of the Universidad de Oriente, under the direction of maestro Rafael Silveira, and was able to participate as a bass singer for about a year, until his father caught him again!!... (Ouch!) Upon graduating as an Engineer, he began to work for the oil industry. He enrolled in the Coral de Lagoven Occidente, and he was able to participate for about two years until he was transferred to the eastern division. He continued his self-taught training of various musical instruments, including banjo, charango, mandolin, bandurria, piano, electric bass, double bass, several percussion instruments and others. When he moved to Houston in 1998, he joined the Venezuelan Musical Ensemble Choir conducted by maestro Luis Echarri, but this group was dissolved shortly after when Mr. Echarri left for Florida. In October 2015, Carlos received his co-national friend Nicolás Real from Miami who came to our city looking for better opportunities. Nicolás, used to be a director of a choral group in Florida. Carlos called several close friends who enjoyed singing and with Mr. Real they started to do rehearsals at his home and so the Hispanic Choir of Houston was born. After seven months of activity maestro Real was replaced by Jessica Colmenares, who successfully directed this group for eight years. During that time Carlos performed as a bass and helped the choir to improve, taking the responsibility of transcribing the music scores and producing digital audio-aid recordings for all the sections to study. Currently Carlos Pereira is one of our choir Advisory Council mentors and recognized as our founding member. Due to his new job as a teacher, he is temporally inactive as a bass singer but his dream is "To return to live and enjoy choral singing, the friends he misses and the atmosphere of camaraderie that is experienced in each rehearsal and concert"