BY OMAR ZAPATA | STAFF WRITER
Local Brownville musician Lorenzo “Lorenzini” López is in the studio with his Tejana songbird, Madison Pulido, with projects from both of them on their way, something he has been wanting to cross off his bucket list since he started songwriting.
Having a history from touring with Brownsville’s Grupo Mazz road crew, formed by his brother Joe López and Jimmy González and being the road manager for Súper Grupo Mazz de Joe López y Jimmy González, López said his musical background goes all the way back to his family roots.
“My mom, Benita López, her family, they were all musically inclined,” he said. “They used to play all kinds of acoustic instruments and they would play at quinceañeras and weddings for the family … she was always singing in the kitchen and I would always listen to her.”
Traveling with his family to work in California and Idaho is where López said he picked up his musical touch from using a license plate between two logs or rocks as a snare and just jamming out with his family.
“We would all just be happy,” he said. “Even though we were poor, we didn’t know what poor was, we just were happy.”
López said It was not until he was 17 when he started to get serious about music and started to write songs.
“I was working in California … for this processing plant and It used to make a lot of different noises in there … and then before you know it, I was already writing some lyrics to it,” he said. “By the time I was 18, I asked our great heavenly father to give me some help because that’s what I wanted to do, to write songs.”
Thanking God for having some of his writings published, López said writing songs has never been work but something that happens whenever inspiration comes along.
Releasing a 12-song album in 2021, he said the album is based on his life experiences with a variety of Country and Tejano songs.
Asked what made him record the album, López said “it was a time in my life when I realized that I better do something [with my writings] because I’m always trying to write for others and I have a recording studio here in Brownsville and I have all the equipment to do it. I decided to do this and get it done. I know it’s a later time in my life but it’s just something that was on my bucket list.”
With López crossing one lifelong thing off his bucket list, another one in progress is getting other artists to sing and record the songs he has written. Working to scratch another item off the bucket list, Tejana artist Madison Pulido is helping López achieve that.
López said Puildo’s mother called him and said they were interested in his music.
“We had a meeting in Harlingen and they told me about what they wanted to do,” he said.
“I felt very comfortable around them and right away I started feeling inspired to write Madison a song.”
Pulido, a native of Lake Jackson, said she also has musical family roots with her grandparents and parents involved in bands and singing.
“I would be around them and it just made me want to do music more,” she said. “I would always sing in the car, sing at family get-togethers. Everywhere I went, you know, I would always sing a song.”
Meeting López, Pulido said she could already see his personality and charisma beaming off of him.
“So, I knew that I could feel that he was good people,” she said. “I wasn’t worried about being in the wrong hands or anything, I felt comfortable.”
Now seeing López and his family as her own, Pulido said feeling comfortable around them has led its way to the recording studio, where they are currently working on her debut album with two songs already released.
The first song released was “Por Que Sera,” an upbeat cumbia love song.
“I wanted to do something that Madison could relate to the audience, something like a love song,” López said.
The other song was “Simplemente Por Quererte a Ti,” a contemporary mariachi song.
“The story behind the song and just all the instruments put with it and the words, it’s just a very beautiful song,” Pulido said.
Working on releasing Pulido’s first CD by the first of the year, she said she is excited for the album to come together and the music videos to come with it and getting to perform all the songs on stage.
López said he is also working on releasing a song of his own over the summer, ‘Quizá’, a romantic ballad inspired during a time his wife, Judy Lopez, faced medical challenges.
To keep up to date and listen to Pulido’s music, visit her Facebook page, at Madison Pulido Latina Music.
