RUTH
Some artists spend years looking for their sound. Ruth Lorenzo has always known hers, and RUTH is the project in which she finally follows it all the way through.
She was seventeen when she first fronted a rock band, years before the UK discovered her on The X Factor in 2008 and long before she represented Spain at Eurovision in 2014. What came after were records, stages and television, along with an industry that rarely ran short of opinions about what a singer like her ought to be, and although she was pushed off course more than once, she never changed direction. RUTH is that same road, taken on her own terms and without asking anyone for permission.
The band
RUTH is Ruth Lorenzo’s project, built from the ground up around her voice and her vision: she created the band, chose the musicians and set the direction from the very first session. The current lineup brings together players from her native Murcia, with Nando Robles on bass, who came up through Second, David Lozano on guitar, Ricardo Ruiz on keys and Sergio Bernal on drums, a regular on stage with M-Clan. It took long nights in a rehearsal room in Murcia, five people playing together in the same room at the same time, before it stopped sounding like a project and started sounding like a band.
The album
BlackSheep was made the way records used to be made, live and all together, straight to analogue tape at the Real World Studios that Peter Gabriel built outside Bath, with no safety net and nothing to be fixed later. Rafa Sardina engineered the sessions, while Sylvia Massy, whose credits include Tool, System of a Down, Johnny Cash and Prince, handled the mix and the master. The result is eleven songs in English, a black sheep on the cover, and a single idea running through all of it: what makes you different is not something to hide.
The album opens with “I Hate My Life”, carried by the teenage choir of the Alice Cooper Solid Rock Teen Foundation, and moves through the hard rock of “Sticks & Stones”, the controlled fury of “The Game” and the punk snap of “Hey” before settling into the stripped-back blues of “Cry”. From there it builds towards the orchestral surge of “Don’t Break My Heart” and the slow lift of “Carry Me Home”, gathering strings, choirs, gospel and dirt along the way, and giving a voice like hers the full range it was always built for.
Live
The BlackSheep tour crossed Spain through 2026, with sold-out shows in Valencia and Murcia, festival dates including Sonorama Ribera and Diosas Fest, and an autumn run that takes in Madrid’s Movistar Arena on 17 October. The set runs seventy-five minutes, entirely in English, built on the band’s own songs with the occasional classic made their own, from Queen to Led Zeppelin.
Press
MondoSonoro rated BlackSheep 7/10, praising its defence of authenticity against industry pressure and the sheer power of Lorenzo’s voice
Stairway to Rock gave it 80/100 and called it a love letter to classic rock, raw and honest, with progressive touches.