Global awarding winning Singer and Song writer Lucenzo is a French artist of Portuguese descent. He discovered his passion for music at a very early age and by 6 was a virtuoso on the piano. By 11 years of age he was taking the stage by storm singing his heart out to audiences.
Lucenzo’s niche is his innovative creative unique style of blending African Angolian rhythms together with today’s Portuguese music. He enriches this juxtaposition with his multilingual gift of Portuguese, Spanish, English and French, giving it a finish coating that is rich and of a new genre.
The emergent sound of this process was the release of the hit single “Vem Danzar Kuduro” that exploded on dance floors across the world. The Youtube video went viral and within months had generated over 10 Million views. By the years end it had over 120 million views. It now has in excess of 400,000,000 MILLION VIEWS!! The song too on a life of its own, climbing to number one on the Club hits of France, Number one on Radio Latina and number 2 on single sales in France. It was declared the summer hit of 2010 by MTV Idol and went on to break into the European top 10 of several European countries. Hollywood took notice, using the song as the official soundtrack to the summer’s block buster hit “Fast and the Furious 5”.
The song in the process spanned duets with global top artists from Pitbull to Don Omar, catapulting it to the top of the charts across the Atlantic and earning Lucenzo his first top 10 hit in the USA and Canada.
Seeking to break out of his mold and to become a crossover artist, Lucenzo made a bold career move in February 2012 by successfully negotiating a new management contract with the Legendary Dieter Wiesner, Michael Jackson’s former manager and confidant. Together they have embarked on a global world tour that has seen Lucenzo perform before sold out audiences that keep growing larger by the day.
Dividends for his discipline, dedication, passion and work ethic began paying off this year as Lucenzo broke the Latin world record for an unprecedented 5 Latin 2012 Billboard nominations. He went on to win 3 at the awards ceremony in Miami.
His recent single “Wine it UP” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk28a2HYCuE in collaboration with Grammy winner Sean Paul has recently been released by Universal and all indications from the industrial experts point to Lucenzo having another massive hit on his hands. He embarks on a major world tour this fall starting in Brazil, spreading through Asia, Europe before coming home to North America in late 2013.
As Lucenzo loves to say: “Why set my sights on the sky, when there are footprints on the moon! I am a global immigrant”.
