With Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero (Call Me by Your Name),’ Producer Roy Lenzo Graduated From the Couch to the Grammys

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Mike Wass Roy Lenzo went from sleeping on a recording studio couch to co-producing Lil Nas X’s chart-topping “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” in two years.

The next chapter in this modern-day fairytale will be written on April 3 at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Lenzo is in the running for song of the year and record of the year for the aforementioned smash as well as album of the year for his many contributions to Nas’ “Montero.”“It’s surreal,” Lenzo says of his Grammy noms. “It’s the highest honor in music, and proof that you can do anything if you put enough time and effort into it.” The producer was introduced to Nas by Denzel Baptiste and David Biral — otherwise known as production duo Take a Daytrip –who met while studying at Five Towns College in New York.

When he graduated, they asked if he would be interested in engineering their sessions. “They let me sleep at the recording studio because I lived on Long Island,” Lenzo says. “Manhattan was a two-hour commute and I had no money.

I had to drive my car and parking was expensive.” Lenzo would work with them during the day and then focus on his own clients at night.