Dan Navarro – 12/9

His former acoustic duo, Lowen & Navarro, released 13 albums, enjoyed widespread Triple-A radio airplay, and performed 1500 gigs before Eric Lowen’s retirement in 2008 and passing from ALS in 2012. Dan set out solo in 2007, and tours constantly.

His acclaimed album “Shed My Skin” was released last year in the US and in early 2019 in Europe to glowing reviews, produced by Steve Postell with guest bows from Janiva Magness, Wendy Waldman, Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Tony Furtato, Freebo, Bob Malone, Brother Sun and Grace Pettis.

During the 2020 Covid pandemic lockdown, Dan got busy and started his “Songs From the CoronaZone” live stream series, running almost daily for five months, and ultimately doing over 250 2-hour+ live streams in 13 months, on the Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitch and Periscope platforms, Then he doubled down, teaching others the live stream ropes in workshops for SAG-AFTRA and Folk Alliance’s “FAR-West” region, as well as several rounds of online songwriting classes dubbed “Songwriting and the Creative Muse”. He returned to the road in late April 2021 on his “NomadDan” Tour, in an 18-foot camper van, covering 66 days, 41 performances and 13,500 miles before breaking to record his next album. The “NomadDan” tour resumes in mid August and will roll the remainder of 2021. 

In July 2021, he released a special duo album with James Lee Stanley, “All Wood and Led”, with acoustic “Laurel Canyon” re-imaginations of Led Zeppelin tunes. He is presently recording his next solo studio album (and 18th album overall) with Grammy-winning producer Jim Scott, slated for release in early 2022.

His songs have appeared in the films Deadpool 2, Pitch Perfect 2 and Talladega Nights, TV series This Is Us, Mare of Easttown, Halt and Catch Fire, American Idol, The Voice, American Dad and The Office, and national commercials for Pepsi, Sheraton, Chase Bank, and the United Way. 

As a bilingual singer and voice actor, he’s sung in the Academy Award-winning movies Coco and Happy Feet, plus The Addams Family, Dora and the City of Lost Gold, The Lorax, Ice Age 2 & 3, and the upcoming Sing 2; TV series The Simpsons, Prison Break and American Dad; voiced characters in Pirates of the Caribbean 5, The Book Of Life, The Playmobil Movie, We Bare Bears and Ultra City Smiths; sung on albums by Luis Miguel, Andrea Bocelli, Jose Feliciano, and Neil Young; voiced video games Red Dead Redemption II, Fallout 4 and Uncharted 4, and performed vocals and voice-overs in literally hundreds of commercials for Toyota, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Honda and many more. 

In his “spare” time, Dan serves on the Board of SAG-AFTRA, the actor-performer-broadcaster’s union, as the National Recording Artist / Singer Vice President; is a Trustee on the AFM/SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Fund; serves on a committee of the Mechanical Licensing Collective and is a past president of Folk Alliance International. He has been a vocal activist in Washington DC for intellectual property rights for over 20 years, having testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee and the Copyright Royalty Board. 

Dan Navarro’s music probes life at its most resonant. In his rich baritone, he sings songs of heart and insight, steeped in experience, soulful tales from a long road well-traveled. 

He’s the proud father of a 25-year old filmmaker son, thinks music is food, art is love, sleep is for babies, and is a known abuser of acoustic guitars.