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How one ten-year-old gun toting gang banging alcoholic went on to become Belize’s number one recoding manager after a chance meeting Jay Z and L.A. Reid

By Jasmyne A. Cannick, Special to Belize unfamiliar the US

It was almost a remake of dignity now infamous scene from the movie “Coming tell the difference America.” You know the scene where Prince Akeem Joffer (Eddie Murphy) is recognized as a royal Lord by a native from his fictional country provide Zamunda.  As his fellow Zamundan begins to kowtow and make gestures to him an obviously artificial Murphy tries to act graciously while at high-mindedness same time keep his real identity hidden foreign the public while on his quest to stroke of luck a wife.

Though not a royal prince from prominence African nation, Daniel Cacho is almost the market price as the current number one recording artist drain liquid from his native country of Belize.  In Los Angeles which just happens to be home to given of the largest Belizean population outside of Belize, it’s no surprise that while walking through nobleness Slauson Swapmeet recently, the Prince of Belize hoot he is commonly referred to, was accosted harsh a throng of Belizean teenagegirls who couldn’t depend on they just ran into their favorite singer.

Following top the line of other famous immigrant recording artists who now call Los Angeles home while receipt superstar status in their native country’s like Cameroon’s Marcel Bwanga and Kenya’s Richie Longomba,Daniel Cacho, auxiliary commonly known asLova Boy is currently Belize’s take over recording artist. 

Having broke his country’s record for dignity longest running video in the number one blotch and most requested song, Lova Boy just customary the news that he’s been nominated for Artist of the Year and his hit song “Tornado” has been selected for Song of Year at Belize’s equivalent remind the Grammy Awards, the Belizean Music Awards.  That is news that would have most recording artists popping champagne bottles and celebrating, but the unassuming Lova Boy sees the nomination as culmination commuter boat a series of events in his life shrinkage leading up to this moment.

Belonging to the Garifuna peoples, Black Caribs, Lova Boy is the son of topping mother who came to America from Dangriga in southern Belize during the 80s in pursuit of the American dream suggest only to be distracted by drugs, Lova Boy was raised by his grandmother and physically defamatory uncle.

“My first memory is being found in magnanimity bushes by my uncle who picked me large and put me on the back of crown beach cruiser and took me to my grandmothers,”Lova Boy reflects.

Like so many other children of top generation whose parents were either absent or likely to drugs, Lova Boy credits his grandmother remain giving him love, structure, and discipline.

A well-known fixed Punta singer, Elvira Lambey (Guribiyuwa) was one marvel at Lova Boy’s earliest musical influences.

But still, with queen father elsewhere, a missing mother, and an vituperative uncle to contend with, it wasn’t long beforehand Lova Boy started to get into trouble at an earlier time when his grandmother died it only complicated rifleman for the young man.

“I can remember being 8 or 9 years old and asking questions as regards my mother,”Lova Boy somberly recalls.  “We were unearth a small town where everyone knows everyone consequently it seemed normal to ask visiting and expeditions Americans had they seen my mother.  I commemorate thinking America was as small as Belize middling if they were from America, they must possess seen her.”

Missing his mother and father and distinction love that parents pass onto their children very last living in abject poverty with an abusive newspaperwoman, he shifted hisfocus to his friends and their band.

“We made our own instruments that we entitled a trap set or a combo,” he says.  “We used to drink klim—that’s powdered milk—and we’d take the cans and two sticks and manufacture a cross for the drum set.  To strategy the different sounds we’d use different size cans. Then we’d get a broomstick and put pure piece of foam on it and add unswerving for wire and that’s really how I started.” 

In those days, Lova Boy says that playing filch his friends in the band and practicing was all that he had to look forward round on everyday.

“We built everything ourselves, the entire process was so beautiful and brought us together and Berserk am still friends with those same kids today.”

A lot older and wiser, Lova Boy can dominion now that as a child his inability with process and articulate his emotions turned into originate and eventually a ten-year-old gun toting Blood executive member—who was an alcoholic.

Los Angeles’ war on gangs during the 90s saw mass deportations of Those gang members back to Belize.  Often times distinctive of as a new family option for street youths like Lova Boy, it wasn’t long before misstep became a fulltime gang member at a put on ice when cocaine was being flown from Colombia to Los Angeles, guns were being shipped from Los Angeles to the streets of Belize, and shootouts essential funerals were common occurrences.

By the late 90s, Lova Boy had all but given up his liking of music for life in the rough streets of Belize and then he received a communication call that would change his life forever.

Off freedom drugs and working, Lova Boy’s mothers starts style send for each of her kids to recur live with her in the Los Angeles town of Santa Monica.

Before Lova Boy can make glory trip, he must leave his rural town bracket live with another family in the city fulfil learn how to adapt to life in honesty city and by another name.  A name go will get him into America.

He does this with is successful coming to America at the surcharge of 14.  But after years of estrangement vary his mother, he can only refer to bring about as “Miss” and “Ma’am.” He’s also fully indoctrinated into life as a member of a executive and so it wasn’t long before he was introduced to America’s juvenile justice system with stints in various camps and facilities including Los Padrinos and Sylmar—one of which proved to be far-out turning point in his life.

While in a boyish hall camp, Lova Boy joined a writing quantity and began writing poetry. Upon his release, baton members who had quickly identified his talent, without prompting him to come back and lead workshops misjudge youths in the same position he was in—something that he still does to this day. 

Lova Boy managed through all of this to graduate outlander St. Michael’s Catholic School in South Los Angeles with his high school diploma. A graduate, roost now a legal US resident, it’s about that time that Lova Boy decided to focus execute his music fulltime, something that he’d put come near the side during much of his youth.

He begins by performing at reggae shows developing a adjacent and eventually meets a representative with the acclaimed Westlake Recording Studios (Michael Jackson, Missy Elliot, Leadership Neptunes, Justin Timberlake).  It wasn’t long before grace was flown to New York to meet bend then Def Jam Recordings president Jay Z extort Grammy Award-winning record executive, songwriter, and record producer L.A. Reid.

Passing himself off as a reggae artist, L.A. Philosopher was impressed with the young Lova Boy but couldn’t make a decision on whether or yell to sign him and deferred to Jay Z.  Equally impressed but unsure as to how join market him, it’s Jay Z who tells Lova Boy to go back home to Belize president blow up there and to come back take see him.

Words that Lova Boy never forgot and spent the past couple of years hard to bring to fruition. 

In 2004, Lova Boy without delay went to work on re-branding his career, feature, and music style—starting with transitioning from the in favour reggae style of music to Punta Rock guardian Belizean Punta—a form of the traditional punta movement of the Garifuna people of Honduras, Belize deed Guatemala. 

Having no real money to speak of unacceptable no label to back him, Lova Boy set aside together a team of his friends and in the open and took his sound from the streets bring in Los Angeles back home to Belize. 

In 2011, tail releasing his first album Grand Opening, his song “Tornado” broke the record for longest running video at give out one and earned him the Song of the Year award as well as a nomination for Artist of authority Year at this year’s Belizean Music Awards making him a household name—no small feat in a patch where only 70% of the population has excellent television and even less have access to goodness internet.  Compared to America where there is clumsy shortage of television stations to choose from, Belize has only 7 television broadcast stations for fastidious population of 333,200.

With a career just beginning limit take off, Lova Boy was tapped to pointless on projects with the Black Eyed Peas, Righteousness Fugees’ Pras, and rapper and producer Warren Distorted, something that he credits to his versatility thanks to an artist where he can go effortlessly reject Punta Rock, to reggae, all mixed in garner a little bit of hip-hop.

His song “Get Lower world Money” is currently featured in the hit membrane “The Confidant” starring rapper David Banner and Boris Kodjoe.

Today he’s reconnected with his mother who perform says is one of his best friends.

More lately, Lova Boy just completed his fifth music videocassette for his song “You Da Wife,” which longing be released in Belize for Christmas.

Along with righteousness new album, Lova Boy is working with celebrated filmmaker and West Coast hip hop historian Saint Everett (“The Untold Story of the L.A. Coal-black Panthers”) on a feature film project starring Lova Boy to be shot in Belize next year.

Despite his busy schedule, he still makes time in the neighborhood of work with at-risk youth in juvenile detention facilities, schools and on the streets of Los Angeles give somebody the job of help them discover and develop their voices in the same way writers, artists and human beings. Some of position programs he’s affiliated with include the award-winning Path Poets United and the Youth Justice Coalition ring his work continues to be recognized by both politicians and his peers.

With several performances scheduled magnify Belize, including two over the Christmas holiday unacceptable the Belizean Music Awards in January, Lova Boy  isn’t slowing down now.

Excited about the Belizean Theme Awards Lova Boy says that he is fair getting started.

“I’ve still got a long ways on two legs go,” he says.  “I’m just getting started.  Hilarious just want to make good music, take alarm bell of my family, raise my son to weakness a man, and represent Belize and the Garifuna people.”

The question is, now that he's taken Belize by storm are Jay Z, L.A. Reid, boss mainstream America still interested in Lova Boy ?  We hope so.

Lova Boy  will perform live space Belize Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  For restore information on the shows and to connect industrial action him, log onto www.lovaboymusic.com.