It is studied the lower semicontinuity of functionals of the type Ω f (x, u, v, ∇u)dx with respect to the (W 1,1 × L p )-weak * topology. Moreover in absence of lower semicontinuity, it is also provided an integral representation in W 1,1 × L p for the lower semicontinuous envelope.We are interested in studying the lower semicontinuity and relaxation of (1) with respect to the L 1 -strong ×L p -weak convergence. Clearly, bounded sequences {u n } ⊂ W 1,1 (Ω; R n ) may converge in L 1 , up to a subsequence, to a BV function. In this paper we restrict our analysis to limits u which are in W 1,1 (Ω; R n ). Thus, our results can be considered as a step towards the study of relaxation in BV (Ω; R n ) × L p (Ω; R m ) of functionals (1).We will consider separately the cases 1 < p < ∞ and p = ∞. To this end we introduce for 1 < p < +∞ the functionalfor any pair (u, v) ∈ W 1,1 (Ω; R n ) × L p (Ω; R m ), and for p = ∞ the functional J ∞ (u, v) := inf lim inf J(u n , v n ) :