I look forward to the intersection of our respective stories, and to finally sharing what has always been, from the beginning, the music I made for you. Soon we will begin releasing each new song and video (one at a time) from Hidin' Downisland, and we’ll begin performing my music for you, in front of you. Each song I’ve written and recorded over the years is a piece of the puzzle of my story, a story which will intersect with your story in many ways. I never toured in support of an album I never made the time to get my music “out there”, wherever that is. ![]() After OceanO came Tales of the Caribbean Cowboys and finally in 2015, we finished Hidin' Downisland.Īs much as music has meant to me, and as important as it has been to share it, I was too busy being a “responsible adult” to commit to it fully. After the Sony experience, I decided that big labels were not for me and since then I’ve self-released. But this guy – who happened to have a law degree – raised enough hell to recover the master album rights from Sony, subsequently releasing my own, even-MORE-Spanglish-laden version of OceanO. But in doing so they broke their promises to the rest of us they’d signed that year and most of us faded away. Sony Discos put all their chips – and the collective stake of marketing dollars - on Shakira and her first major-label album, Pies Descalsos – a wise business decision no doubt. There were about a dozen and a half acts signed by Sony Discos that year and one of them – a young lady you may have heard of named Shakira – proved to be their pot of gold. My first album deal was with Sony, which, after months of bickering about including “Spanglish” lyrics in what was supposed to be a Spanish language album, reluctantly released OceanO. Most of his songs are in Spanish, but he has released songs in English as well. He was raised in both Mexico and in the United States, and Lorenzo is fluent in both Spanish, and in English. ![]() But despite my Cuban roots and the imprint they would always continue to make in my music, my musical palate was distinctly American pop, and I had worn out my 45 single of the Archies’ Sugar Sugar (backside was Melody Hill) before any of my third grade classmates had even heard the song. Clive Davis must have heard Engelbert Humperdincks excellent album track from his 1976 comeback, After the Lovin, and with a little change in the original lyric a superb pop confection manifested - a sophisticated 'Jingle Jangle'/'Sugar Sugar' produced by the singer of those Archies hits, Ron Dante, along with Manilow. Lorenzo Antonio, is a singer and songwriter of Latin origin, who is known and recognized in Mexico and Latin America, where he has sold millions of records. Seeing my name next to those of Celia Cruz and Beny Moré was surreal. In the early 90s, my first song was recorded and released by Polygram Records “Navegue Con Amor” became the title cut of the tribute album to Cuban music. The melodies got words in high school, and soon after that I was onstage with a band singing my songs. It began in Havana, Cuba, on my fourth Christmas, when I was given a toy xylophone…banged out my first melody and haven’t stopped since.
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