Jonathan Alejandro Pérez is a Chilean drummer who is currently based in Kristiansand, Norway.
He´s known for his work with the Norwegian bands Trail of Tears and Sirenia.
Jonathan A. Perez has been known for their involvement in different bands of gothic metal and symphonic metal from Norway.
His career in music began at age 18 in 1997 with Trail of Tears, a local band, when he served as drummer after Vidar Uleberg left the band. With them he recorded a total of five studio albums, including full tours and numerous shows in Europe, as well as the first full Mexican tour in June 2003.
In 2004 he was assigned, along with Trail of Tears, to be part of the double album tribute to the Australian group Dead Can Dance, entitled "The Lotus Eaters (Tribute To Dead Can Dance)." The band appears performing the song "The Arcane".
During the spring and summer of 2006, he made a successful European tour with his band, along with Therion and Tristania, promoting the album "Free Fall into Fear", which was published a year earlier.
Once completed, recorded the group's fifth album, called "Existentia", which was programmed with a new concert tour playing the new material during 2007.
However, in November 2006, Perez finally abandoned Trail of Tears in conjunction with other members (except their leader Ronny Thorsen) because of differences and monetary losses of the organization to the members of the band.
Subsequently, it has remained a permanent member of Sirenia, but has not been habitual or constant as a session musician on recordings of their albums.
With this band intervened only in the recording of their mini-CD "Sirenian Shores" (2004) and on their album "Nine Destinies and a Downfall" (2007), and also is credited in the three singles and videos they've released since then. His arrival coincided with the first great international success of Sirenia, the song "My Mind's Eye" (2007), which topped the radio charts in several countries. The video was widely distributed in Austria, Switzerland, Australia and Germany, and was broadcast on MTV, according to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenbladet.
Two other musical projects of a more experimental and less known bands have been Stemplet Falsk ("False Stamp" in Norwegian), which formed with his co-former Trail of Tears, guitarist Runar Hansen and more personal, which he called Sonido Latino (Latin Sound). Both projects has not yet published any material label, unless no official release demos.