Meeting With Lee Lozowick
A concert full fo energy with the Lee Lozowick Band who conquered the public at the “Jeudi de Ploemer.” Portrait of a singer who is closer to Abbe Pierre than to Mick Jagger.
The Lee Lozowick Band, formed three years ago with young French musicians around the personality of Lee, who is from Arizona, ended their high energy concert under thunderous applause. Original compositions and cover songs from Joe Cocker, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and so on, peppered with instrumental solos, made people dance and captivated the children who remained clinging to the stage during the entire performance.
In his sixties, dressed in a black t-shirt bearing the effigy of Janis Joplin—bearing on the back this quote from Janis, “Be yourself, it’s all you got!”—Lee exited the stage, quenched his thirst, and without an effusion of words, met his family in the wings. When he is down from the podium of the stage, he strikes by his grand simplicity and a natural softness. The audience finds that he even more resembles the Abbe Pierre, since he cut off his long dreadlocks!
“I started working with music twenty-five years ago. No, before that I did not do anything at all with music. I was a seller of stamps. It came about because I met some exceptional musicians. I wrote some lyrics for them and they urged me to be the one to sing them.”
He first came on stage with a blues band named Shri, which was a band that was born in just this way. “Fourteen albums with Shri and two with this band.” Lee comments little on his work. He is simply happy to be here with the audience, which returns to the band what they [the musicians] have given the audience.
