Songs By an Immigrant Vol. 3 from Jaime Lozano & The Familia releases August 22 via Concord Theatricals Recordings. Watch the video above to see Krystina Alabado (Mean Girls) sing "Wherever I Go" from the new release. The track features music by Lozano and lyrics by Georgie Castilla. Stream the full album here.
With music by musical theatre composer and Jonathan Larson Grant recipient Lozano, the new album features award-winning Latin artists and Broadway stars, including Grammy and Latin Grammy winner Tony Succar; Grammy-winning music producer Trooko; multi-Grammy winner and National Medal of Arts artist-saxophonist Paquito D’ Rivera; Latin Grammy winner Jair Alcalá and his band El Plan; Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal); Alabado; Tony nominee Lorna Courtney (& Juliet, Heathers); Florencia Cuenca (Real Women Have Curves); Aline Mayagoitia (Real Women Have Curves); Joel Perez (tick, tick…BOOM!); and Didi Romero (SIX); and more.
The album portrays the first- and second-generation middle class U.S. experience and details the challenges of being an immigrant: finding a new home, learning a new language, dealing with discrimination, pursuing the American Dream, and searching for ways to build bridges instead of walls.
Songs By An Immigrant Vol. 3 features arrangements and orchestrations by Lozano and Jesús Altamira and lyrics by Lozano, Castilla, Reynolds Robledo, Nathan Tysen, David Davila, Neena Beber, Marina Pires, Tommy Newman, and Cuenca. The album is produced by Lozano and Demián Cantú, co-produced by Victoria Kühne and Sean Patrick Flahaven, and executive-produced by Jaime Lozano & The Familia. It was recorded, edited, and mixed by Cantú, and mastered by Oscar Zambrano.
To celebrate the album's release, Jaime Lozano & The Familia will perform at Sony Hall August 25, joined by an all-star lineup of Broadway performers to be announced. Click here for more information.