Raul Malu (The Mavericks) discovery Sweet Lizzy Project to release pop-rock album with a modern sheen and classic rock heart.In just a few years, Cuban-born, Nashville-based quintet Sweet Lizzy Project has gone from its members never having been in an arena, to mesmerizing an audience of 20,000 people opening for their idols, Heart and Joan Jett. Along the way, the anthemic rock band earned a prime performance broadcast for PBS’s Havana Time Machine; an artist profile on NPR’s “Weekend Edition”; and a cover story in the Miami Herald.
SLP defected to the U.S. from Cuba in late 2017, just as the border doors were set to close once again. “We were one of the ‘pending cases’ before just before the Embassy was shutting down. It was the most stressful time of my life,” SLP vocalist Lisset Diaz recalls. She continues: “We had dreams and sacrificed for this opportunity by saying goodbye to friends and family. I remember when we got to the U.S. it was such a shock—it’s, of course, so different here, but the move has let us connect with much wider influences here in Nashville and made us more accomplished musicians.”
