Pedro the Lion

来自西雅图（华盛顿）的地下乐队Pedro the Lion，由主唱David Bazan创立至今已有12个年头。由于他的大部分歌曲与圣经有关，Pedro the Lion被有些人认为是基督乐队。但Bazan和乐队并不这样认为。
Pedro the Lion由David Bazan与1994年组建并与1997年四月发行首张EP《Whole》。尽管乐队整容经多次调整，但Bazan依然是乐队主要灵魂人物。在最早2张完整专辑Hard to Find a Friend (1998) and Winners Never Quit (2000)里，他演唱并完成所有的乐器部分。至今乐队已总共发行4张专辑及一些EP。
贯穿他的整个事业，Bazan已合作过的乐人有Damien Jurado, Scientific, The Six Parts Seven, The Soft Drugs的Tim Walsh, Seldom, 及Unwed Sailor. 他还和Nick Peterson,及来自Starflyer 59的Frank Lenz, 组建乐队 Headphones.
在2006年一月，Pedro the Lion宣告解散。然而乐队的名字依然被用于他们每年的圣诞单曲。
在他目前的巡回竟限于Undertow Orchestra后，Bazan继续录制他的首张solo 。这张EP与2006年6月发行，而完整的专辑将待2007年发行。Walsh 重又做起web application developer（网页应用开发商？）并致力于他的个人solo项目The Soft Drugs。
After a shifting lineup, Pedro the Lion finally eventually became a one-man outfit. That man is David Bazan. A Seattle native, Bazan cut his teeth playing in hardcore bands before forming Pedro in 1995, taking the bands name from a character he made up for a possible childrens book. Under the moniker of Pedro the Lion, Bazan creates melodic pop in the vein of Bedhead, Hayden, and Sebadoh, with a lyrical focus on relationships — with both other people and God. Bazan also plays in the band Unwed Sailor with Johnathon Ford of Roadside Monument. Pedro the Lions debut full-length album, Its Hard to Find a Friend, was released in 1998. An EP titled The Only Reason I Feel Secure shortly followed, and in early 2000 Pedro the Lion returned with Winners Never Quit on Jade Tree. In 2001, Jade Tree reissued the bands first two records, and Casey Foubert joined the band to handle bass, percussion, and keyboard duties for the next record, 2002s Control. In 2004, the band issued their most expansive album, Achilles Heel. Two years later, in early 2006, Bazan retired the Pedro moniker to continue on with solo work under his own name; the first official David Bazan release, the Fewer Moving Parts EP, appeared that July. Long-time collaborator and multi-instrumentalist T.W. Walsh moved on with his own project, the Soft Drugs, and returned to a career in software engineering.