We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Roy Lucian Baza. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Roy Lucian below.

Hi Roy Lucian, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

My new single “Finally Me” is releasing on February 2nd. It’s the lead single from my new album, “Loverboy Lucian” out May 10th. The new single highlights where I’ve been, what I’ve done, and where my story is headed to next. Working on the follow up album to my debut release, “Roy”, has been such an uplifting therapeutic experience for me. While “Roy” explored many musical genres, and darker earlier chapters of my life from my Glaucoma diagnosis, getting hit by a car and nearly dying, and my history as an abuse survivor. I needed something different, something happy. “Loverboy Lucian” explores joy and love. I wanted to write and create an r&b album filled with love songs. Together with my producer, Ben Wilkins, we accomplished that. I’ve always said, I wish to bring joy and spend love through my craft. My greatest hope is that people will feel something good when they listen to my work. Or that they have my work to lean onto when they need it most. For the darker times in their life, they can turn to the “Roy” album, and for the joyful times ahead, “Loverboy Lucian”, will be the album for that.

Roy Lucian, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I have been writing and creating music professionally since I was 12 years old. In my early teens I went by the stage name, “Dom Baza”. I worked with respected producers Doug Chancellor and James Earley on 2 Dom Baza albums. In 2014 my career came to a halt when I was diagnosed with the eye disease, Glaucoma. After 7 major surgeries and hundreds of days of treatment, I finally returned to what I do best in December 2020. I began working with my producing partners Ben Wilkins and Anthony Rojas on a new visual album, my debut album, “Roy”. In April 2022 “Roy” and “Roy: The Film” were released. Following the release of my album and a movie that brought to life all the songs, I set out on my first tour, “The Closed Doors Tour”. In between that I filmed a short visual film companion to the deluxe version of “Roy”. That film titled, “Where It Began” and the the album “Roy: Deluxe” released in May 2023. Through all of that I have spent the last year working on a brand new album, called “Loverboy Lucian”, releasing on May 10th, 2024. I am so proud that through the darkness, the scars that bind, and my various creative endeavors, I’ve been able to make new memories that will stick with me for life. Regardless of how dark my story may have gotten at times, I’m still here, pushing forward with the hope of more joy, and leading with love.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Getting diagnosed with Glaucoma in 2014 was one of the hardest experiences I’ve ever lived through. Although I’m now stable, I’m still living through it, there’s no cure for this disease. It put a huge dent on my career plans. At 19, to have your world ripped from you, that was really hard. At one point I felt as if I had lost hope that I could return to some form of my career. Then a shift happened. I thought to myself, I could sit here and be miserable for the rest of my life. Or, I could get up and make something good with the current situation I had been given. I am so glad that this illness could never fully take me down. In my song “2nd Chance”, from my first album, “Roy”, I wrote the lyrics “you can try to tear me down, but look what has happened, I will rise from the ashes”. It’ll be 10 years of this Glaucoma journey on February 24th. I’ll be 29 on May 11th. My 2nd album, “Loverboy Lucian” is releasing on May 10th. Truly, I’m still rising from the ashes 10 years later.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

I think society could support us artists by going to our shows, purchasing our music, and sharing our work and creations with their inner circles. It takes a village to be an artist. And it’s not cheap whatsoever. Live music, live events, all of that, it’s important for our livelihood as creatives. We make most of our money from live shows, from merch. You can get thousands of streams, but the revenue will never be as much as what you would receive from going out into the world and getting support from your loyal fan base and supporters.

Contact Info:

• Website: loverboylucian.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roylucianbaza/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/roylucianbaza
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpA3QbrrkpO0_Ta_kVCbvtA
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2DW48RAU3rpcXz7mbL1URB?si=bexnB91uRiaUtOrFil-hSg

Image Credits
Anthony Rojas