NICA live: RAY LOZANO | Release-Konzert "#4a79b1"

What happens when you’re in your mid-thirties and realize that your life is quietly changing? Relationships dissolve, friendships take on new forms, and old versions of yourself disappear almost unnoticed. It’s a phase of life between saying goodbye and a new beginning: between the feeling of having arrived and the sense that something new is beginning. That’s exactly where RAY LOZANO comes in. The Cologne-based singer and producer presents new music on #4a79b1 via Melting Pot Music. Co-produced by her longtime musical partner Samon Kawamura, she blends warm soundscapes, subtle grooves, and precise arrangements into a distinctive form of contemporary R&B, where jazz, soul, and electronic influences intertwine.

#4a79b1 is less a color than a state of being: a blue for the moments in between. For modern relationships, old patterns, longing, nostalgia, and the small goodbyes that life in one’s mid-thirties brings. Lozano’s songs transform these subtle changes into something auditory: intimate and rich in detail, rhythmically precise, and open to new forms. Her music moves between R&B, soul, and electronic sounds, while always remaining personal.

Ray Lozano has been a NICA artist since 2023 and has used this time to establish herself internationally from her base in Cologne: among other things, with her COLORS show, a nomination for the 2026 MME Award, and concerts from London to Groningen. The release concert now marks the conclusion of her support through the NICA artist development program and, at the same time, another artistic step forward: With #4a79b1, Ray presents her third release—and with it, a further evolved, more distinctive version of her sound.