Lorenzo Wood Music

Lorenzo Wood is an award-winning musician, songwriter, producer, and vocalist from the San Francisco area. His heartfelt, honest lyrics present a personal perspective of friendships, relationships, and coming of age in the modern era of social media. His songs, rooted in the pop genre, borrow from a number of different musical styles to create a distinctive mix of real instruments and electronic sounds.

In addition to recording and producing songs and videos in his home studio, Lorenzo performs live, solo or with a band. With a skillset of music performace technology, he puts together unique, intricate live setups that make his performances stand out.

Lorenzo lists Maroon 5, Train, U2, Shawn Mendes, and John Mayer as his initial musical influences. But now he feels his style resembles more that of artists like Bazzi, Julia Michaels, Post Malone, and Jonas Brothers.

Performance

Lorenzo has been performing and recording his songs since a young age. At age 13, he discovered busking, and has been performing primarily at street festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area every summer/fall since then.

In 2018, while releasing his first EP at the age of 15, he put together and hired a band to play the newly released songs with him on stage. He performed again in 2019 with a new lineup.

Lorenzo has also performed as a member of several local bands. Recently he has supported Kat Van Morgan, Saint Benjamin, and others, playing whatever instruments were needed.

For many of his own performances and those of others, Lorenzo coordinates and runs live sound, being knowledgeable and experienced with most audio and musical equipment.

Production

Lorenzo has been producing and releasing a number of singles for the last few months, with several more songs coming soon.

Lorenzo is an accomplished music producer, both for his own music and for other artists. He produced and co-wrote four of the tracks from Kat Van Morgan's EP, and has also recorded full tracks and demos for other musicians.

He is also versed at video production, creating videos both for his own songs as well as others, such as performance videos for Sam Johnson.

Lorenzo enjoys collaborating with other musicians. He brought singer/songwriter Kaia onboard as a featured vocalist for the acoustic version of his 2019 single "Jacket"; Working with Andrew Wilson, he co-wrote and sang on "You and Me Now", and produced the vocals on "Lonely." Lorenzo plans for more collaborations and featured artists in his upcoming releases.

Awards

Lorenzo was a merit winner in the 2020 National YoungArts Foundation in the category of Voice/Singer-Songwriter. He joins some of the nation’s most accomplished artists in the visual, literary and performing arts and was selected based on his caliber of artistic achievement by an esteemed discipline-specific panel of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process. This year’s award winners represent the top 9.5% of applications across ten artistic disciplines.

Lorenzo was awarded a grant in 2019 from the Hunter Brooks Watson Memorial Fund of McLean, Virginia. This fund seeks out young people who dream of something they are deeply curious and passionate about, then provides them with financial resources to explore that passion. The grant was awarded for Lorenzo to upgrade his home music studio.

Lorenzo is a frequent participant in West Coast Songwriters. His songs have won numerous "Song of the Month" awards since 2018. His song "Jacket" won "Best Song of the Year" in 2019 with the Redwood City chapter of West Coast Songwriters, and was a finalist in West Coast Songwriter's Song of the Year competition.