Editing Johnny Lozada (section)

===Solo career and Proyecto M===

In 1984, Lozada turned 16 and left Menudo, as was usual among its members. He was replaced by [[Robi Rosa]]. A farewell concert was held at the [[Radio City Music Hall]] in [[New York City]].<ref name="people">{{cite web|url=http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/johnny-lozada-regresa-la-television-y-al-teatro|title=Johnny Lozada regresa a la televisión y al teatro|work=[[People en Español]]|date=December 20, 2011}}</ref>

Lozada was signed by [[RCA Records|RCA]] and recorded two solo albums: ''Johnny'' and ''Invítame''.<ref name="fundacion"/> This last album was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album|Best Latin Pop Album]] at the [[27th Grammy Awards]], alongside [[José Feliciano]], [[Plácido Domingo]], [[José José]], [[María Conchita Alonso]], and [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]] themselves.

In 1986, Lozada participated in a campaign to encourage youth [[abstinence]] from [[sexual intercourse|sex]], in which he recorded two duets ("Cuando Estemos Juntos" and "Détente") with [[Tatiana (singer)|Tatiana]] and music videos for them.  This received much publicity in Latin America and even in the United States, where it was the subject of a report by [[John Stossel]] on ''[[20/20 (U.S. TV series)|20/20]]''.

That year also, Lozada participated alongside the [[Puerto Rico national basketball team]] (joining such stars as [[José Ortiz (basketball)|Jose Ortiz]], [[Ruben Rodriguez (basketball)|Ruben Rodriguez]], [[Federico Fico Lopez]] and [[Angelo Cruz]] among others) as well as [[Rafael Jose]], [[Magali Carrasquillo]], [[Kobbo Santarrosa]], Jaime Bello, and others in a song named "Yo Voy a Mi", for which a CD  and musical video were produced, in order to boost the basketball team's games' attendance numbers as it headed to the 1987 Pre-Olympic tournament in Uruguay and, later on, to the 1988 Olympic Games in South Korea.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_z7udgYdI | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/61_z7udgYdI| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=Equipo Nacional Baloncesto PR 1986 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2019-10-14}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1987, Lozada joined former Menudo alumni [[Rene Farrait]] and [[Xavier Serbiá]] in the singing group Proyecto M (Lozada and Farrait were later joined at Proyecto M by Lozada's former bandmate at Menudo, [[Ray Reyes]]). The group enjoyed some success in [[Latin America]], and was invited to participate in the [[telenovela]] ''Alba Marina'', alongside Venezuelan singer [[Karina (Venezuelan singer)|Karina]]. The group was together for 8 years and recorded four albums, during which Serbiá left and was replaced by [[Ray Reyes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siete.panamaamerica.com.pa/johnny-lozada-feliz-a-sus-44/|title=Johnny Lozada feliz a los 44|work=Siete|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810051906/http://siete.panamaamerica.com.pa/johnny-lozada-feliz-a-sus-44/|archive-date=2012-08-10}}</ref>