Gramm said he\u2019s been working on new material with longtime friend Bruce Turgon, who was in Gramm\u2019s solo bands and also played bass in Foreigner for about a decade. According to Blabbermouth<\/a>, some of the songs were originally written for other solo albums in the 1980s or Gramm\u2019s side project Shadow King in 1991 but never finished.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been working on this album for over two years, and I have been looking through my backlog of songs that were great songs but were unfinished and didn\u2019t make it to the cut on my records and went back and finished some of them, and they\u2019re awesome songs,\u201c Gramm said. \u201dSo I\u2019m taking some new songs that were written and some of the older songs that deserve to be on the album. I finished \u2018em up, polished \u2018em up, and they\u2019re on the album. So it\u2019s a little conglomerate of past and present.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cReleased\u201d will be available March 20; fans can preorder it on vinyl via Amazon<\/a>. Gramm said the first single is expected to be released in early February.<\/p>\n \u201cIt rocks hard, boy,\u201d Gramm said. \u201cI\u2019m so excited to release them, because, to me, they sound great.\u201d<\/p>\n According to American Songwriter<\/a>, Gramm recorded the new songs with his current solo group, including his brother Ben Grammatico on drums, Jeff Jacobs on keyboards, Scott Gilman on sax, Tony Franklin on bass, and Gary Hoey on guitar. <\/p>\n Gramm was the original lead singer of Foreigner, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> group known for 1970s and \u201880s hits like \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is,\u201d \u201cHot Blooded,\u201d \u201cFeels Like the First Time,\u201d \u201cWaiting for a Girl Like You,\u201d and \u201cCold As Ice.\u201d Gramm, a Rochester native who currently lives in Webster, N.Y., co-founded the band with guitarist Mick Jones<\/a>; they were also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame together.<\/p>\n Gramm left Foreigner in 1990 and again in 2003<\/a>, opting for a solo career. He released two solo albums, \u201cReady or Not\u201d in 1987 and \u201cLong Hard Look\u201d in 1989, featuring songs like \u201cMidnight Blue\u201d and \u201cJust Between You and Me.\u201d He also performed with Black Sheep<\/a> and Poor Heart; released albums with Shadow King (with Def Leppard\u2019s Vivian Campbell) in 1991 and The Lou Gramm Band in 2009; and shared reissues and compilations of previously released material (like 1993\u2019s \u201cA Foreigner in a Strange Land (The Early Years)\u201d and most recently \u201cQuestions and Answers: The Atlantic Anthology 1987-1989\u2033 in 2021).<\/p>\n The 75-year-old singer has reunited with Foreigner<\/a> as a guest vocalist at some concerts over the past year, including to promote a reissue of the 1981 album \u201c4\u2033 and to celebrate the band\u2019s upcoming 50th anniversary. The current lineup features singer Luis Maldonado<\/a>, bassist Jeff Pilson, keyboardist Michael Bluestein, guitarist Bruce Watson and drummer Chris Frazier; former lead singer Kelly Hansen<\/a> stepped down in October after 20 years with Foreigner.<\/p>\n Jones is the only original member that\u2019s still officially in Foreigner, though he hasn\u2019t performed live since 2022 due to his battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease. <\/p>\n![\"Foreigner,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OHTQNRV7ERCD3GFMLRK7RGDWK4.jpg\")
Luis Maldonado, Lou Gramm, and Jeff Pilson perform \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is\u201d during the Foreigner 4 The Deluxe Tour with Lou Gramm at The Capital Theatre on December 3, 2025 in Port Chester, New York. (Photo by Joy Malone\/Getty Images)Getty Images<\/p>\n