- In 2007 he was diagnosed with dysarthria.
- As a solo musician he released 10 albums: (No Existen) Técnicas para olvidar (1993), Póntelo en la lengua (1997), Degeneración Actual (1999), Anecdotas (2003), Play (2004), Talkshow (2006), Pedro Suárez Vértiz (2007), Amazonas (2009), Amazonas Uncut (2010) and Ponerme a Volar (2011).
- Co-founded the Peruvian rock band Arena Hash in 1987.
- With his band Arena Hash they released three albums: Arena Hash (1987), Ah Ah Ah (1991) and El Archivo De Arena Hash (1995).
- Billboard magazine named his hit song Los Globos Del Cielo as the number 14 song of the list of The 25 Timeless Masterpieces of Rock in Spanish.
- Has a younger brother Patricio.
- Attended the University of Lima, graduating with a degree in communications.
- First band was called Paranoia, it was formed in 1985.
- In 1985 he formed his first band, "Paranoia", together with his brother Patricio Suárez Vértiz and school friends Edward Málaga-Trillo, Arturo Pomar, Eduardo Quevedo and Alex Kornhuber.
- Suárez-Vértiz was the winner of Orgullosamente Latino 2004 (Proudly Latin 2004) and winner of the Best Latin Soloist of the Year in Mexico.
- Suárez-Vértiz was passionate for the music since he was a little kid. At the age of one, Pedro settled the ornaments of his house down like a xylophone and smacked then with a wand to get melodies out of them. His father immediately bought him an old celesta Dulcitone, Pedro's first musical instrument. Just a few years later, his parents could buy him a piano.
- Suárez-Vértiz knew he wanted to be a singer when saw for the first time the movie A Hard Day's Night, in which the famous English band The Beatles appears.
- Suárez-Vértiz was well known for his multitudinous concerts, his vocal rhythm, his extensive guitar collection, his abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, his philanthropy and his personality.
- From 2011, Pedro had shown an obvious bad diction. He explained that it was consequence of a muscle nerve disorder that developed with the age, also he admitted suffering from chronic Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder which made him look extremely distracted and tangled speech. This significantly affected his singing.
- Suárez-Vértiz learned to play the piano and the guitar before he began school.
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