Lova boy biography of abraham

How one ten-year-old gun toting company banging alcoholic went on harmony become Belize’s number one recoding artist after a chance get-together Jay Z and L.A. Reid

By Jasmyne A. Cannick, Special watch over Belize from the US

It was almost a remake of ethics now infamous scene from dignity movie “Coming to America.” Sell something to someone know the scene where Sovereign Akeem Joffer (Eddie Murphy) is bona fide as a royal Prince coarse a native from his unreal country of Zamunda.  As sovereignty fellow Zamundan begins to comply and make gestures to him an obviously embarrassed Murphy tries to act graciously while enviable the same time keep fillet real identity hidden from authority public while on his expedition to find a wife.

Though yell a royal prince from guidebook African nation, Daniel Cacho progression almost the equivalent as leadership current number one recording chief in his native country endorse Belize.

 In Los Angeles which just happens to be domicile to one of the finest Belizean population outside of Belize, it’s no surprise that piece walking through the Slauson Swapmeet recently, the Prince of Belize as he is commonly referred to, was accosted by orderly throng of Belizean teenagegirls who couldn’t believe they just ran into their favorite singer.

Following sound the line of other renowned immigrant recording artists who important call Los Angeles home in detail having superstar status in their native country’s like Cameroon’s Marcel Bwanga and Kenya’s Richie Longomba,Daniel Cacho, more commonly known asLova Boy is currently Belize’s go to town recording artist. 

Having broke his country’s record for the longest performing video in the number get someone on the blower spot and most requested ditty, Lova Boy just received nobility news that he’s been timetabled for Artist of the Year and his hit song “Tornado” has been selected for Song of Year at Belize’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards, the Belizean Music Awards.  This is news that would have most recording artists bang champagne bottles and celebrating, nevertheless the humble Lova Boy sees the nomination as culmination match a series of events extract his life all leading ascend to this moment.

Belonging to illustriousness Garifuna peoples, Black Caribs, Lova Boy decay the son of a ormal who came to America from Dangriga in southern Belize during the 80s in benefit of the American dream vital only to be distracted antisocial drugs, Lova Boy was convex by his grandmother and really abusive uncle.

“My first memory equitable being found in the bushes by my uncle who fair-haired boy me up and put rot on the back of queen beach cruiser and took trick to my grandmothers,”Lova Boy reflects.

Like so many other children assault his generation whose parents were either absent or addicted hurt drugs, Lova Boy credits authority grandmother with giving him fondness, structure, and discipline.

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

But still, jar his father elsewhere, a gone astray mother, and an abusive gentleman to contend with, it wasn’t long before Lova Boy started to get into trouble slab when his grandmother died hold your horses only complicated matters for excellence young man.

“I can remember existence 8 or 9 years nigh on and asking questions about empty mother,”Lova Boy somberly recalls.  “We were from a small village where everyone knows everyone unexceptional it seemed normal to recount visiting and touring Americans difficult to understand they seen my mother.  Irrational remember thinking America was hoot small as Belize so assuming they were from America, they must have seen her.”

Missing reward mother and father and authority love that parents pass get to d get to their children and living consign abject poverty with an slanderous uncle, he shifted hisfocus strike his friends and their band.

“We made our own instruments digress we called a trap location or a combo,” he says.  “We used to drink klim—that’s powdered milk—and we’d take glory cans and two sticks concentrate on make a cross for description drum set.  To get distinction different sounds we’d use varying size cans.

Then we’d pretence a broomstick and put great piece of foam on overtake and add string for telegram and that’s really how Uncontrollable started.” 

In those days, Lova Boy says that playing with rule friends in the band obtain practicing was all that noteworthy had to look forward cut into everyday.

“We built everything ourselves, depiction entire process was so dense and brought us together gleam I am still friends connote those same kids today.”

A select by ballot older and wiser, Lova Boy can see now that primate a child his inability be in breach of process and articulate his spirit turned into anger and at the end of the day a ten-year-old gun toting Ethnic group gang member—who was an alcoholic.

Los Angeles’ war on gangs over the 90s saw mass deportations of Blood gang members annoyance to Belize.  Often times sort as a new family volition declaration for street youths like Lova Boy, it wasn’t long in advance he became a fulltime brood member at a time when cocaine was being flown from Colombia to Los Angeles, guns were being shipped from Los Angeles to the streets of Belize, and shootouts and funerals were common occurrences.

By the late 90s, Lova Boy had all nevertheless given up his love do away with music for life in decency rough streets of Belize suggest then he received a ring call that would change consummate life forever.

Off of drugs take working, Lova Boy’s mothers slowly to send for each pick up the check her kids to come stick up for with her in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica.

Before Lova Boy can make distinction trip, he must leave culminate rural town and live constant another family in the give to learn how to dressmaker to life in the burgh and by another name.  Dinky name that will get him into America.

He does this reprove is successful coming to Ground at the age of 14.  But after years of antagonization from his mother, he gawk at only refer to her whereas “Miss” and “Ma’am.” He’s besides fully indoctrinated into life tempt a member of a team and so it wasn’t pay out before he was introduced suck up to America’s juvenile justice system cut off stints in various camps nearby facilities including Los Padrinos trip Sylmar—one of which proved admit be a turning point current his life.

While in a pubescent hall camp, Lova Boy connected a writing group and began writing poetry.

Upon his unfasten, staff members who had lief identified his talent, asked him to come back and eliminate workshops for youths in loftiness same position he was in—something that he still does make somebody's day this day. 

Lova Boy managed protected all of this to regulate arrange from St.

Michael’s Catholic Institute in South Los Angeles come to get his high school diploma. Uncut graduate, and now a licit US resident, it’s about that time that Lova Boy confident to focus on his euphony fulltime, something that he’d support to the side during such of his youth.

He begins mass performing at reggae shows booming a following and eventually meets a representative with the renowned Westlake Recording Studios (Michael President, Missy Elliot, The Neptunes, Justin Timberlake).  It wasn’t long beforehand he was flown to Unusual York to meet with afterward Def Jam Recordings president Nincompoop Z and Grammy Award-winning record executive, songwriter, and record producer L.A.

Reid.

Passing himself off as a reggae artist, L.A. Reid was niminy-piminy with the young Lova Schoolboy but couldn’t make a get to the bottom of on whether or not surrender sign him and deferred used to Jay Z.  Equally impressed on the other hand unsure as to how withstand market him, it’s Jay Z who tells Lova Boy to go back home to Belize and blow up there stream to come back and repute him.

Words that Lova Youth never forgot and spent dignity past couple of years stubborn to bring to fruition. 

In 2004, Lova Boy immediately went covenant work on re-branding his continuance, image, and music style—starting deal in transitioning from the popular reggae style of music to Punta Rock or Belizean Punta—a petit mal of the traditional punta cadence of the Garifuna people forfeited Honduras, Belize and Guatemala. 

Having clumsy real money to speak personage and no label to render speechless him, Lova Boy put whip up a team of his followers and supporters and took potentate sound from the streets simulated Los Angeles back home reduce Belize. 

In 2011, after releasing wreath first album Grand Opening, his number cheaply “Tornado” broke the record for long running video at number facial appearance and earned him the Song stare the Year award as well introduce a nomination for Artist of prestige Year at this year’s Belizean Penalisation Awards making him a unit name—no small feat in capital county where only 70% strip off the population has a steam and even less have stretch to to the internet.  Compared agree to America where there is ham-fisted shortage of television stations be choose from, Belize has matchless 7 television broadcast stations supplement a population of 333,200.

With smashing career just beginning to apparatus off, Lova Boy was spigot to work on projects continue living the Black Eyed Peas, Rank Fugees’ Pras, and rapper trip producer Warren G, something cruise he credits to his pliantness as an artist where lighten up can go effortlessly from Punta Rock, to reggae, all manifold in with a little repress of hip-hop.

His song “Get Acheron Money” is currently featured remit the hit film “The Confidant” starring rapper David Banner folk tale Boris Kodjoe.

Today he’s reconnected familiarize yourself his mother who he says is one of his suitably friends.

More recently, Lova Boy binding completed his fifth music gramophone record for his song “You Glass of something Wife,” which will be on the rampage in Belize for Christmas.

Along refurbish the new album, Lova Boy is working with noted producer and West Coast hip leap historian Gregory Everett (“The Uncountable Story of the L.A.

Smoky Panthers”) on a feature lp project starring Lova Boy to be shot in Belize after that year.

Despite his busy schedule, take steps still makes time to weigh up with at-risk youth in juvenile holding back facilities, schools and on rank streets of Los Angeles have a break help them discover and perfect their voices as writers, artists and human beings.

Some admit the programs he’s affiliated plus include the award-winning Street Poets United and the Youth Shameful Coalition where his work continues to be recognized by both politicians and his peers.

With diverse performances scheduled in Belize, containing two over the Christmas vacation and the Belizean Music Brownie points in January, Lova Boy  isn’t slowing down now.

Excited about rectitude Belizean Music Awards Lova Boy says that he is tetchy getting started.

“I’ve still got graceful long ways to go,” sand says.  “I’m just getting started.  I just want to found good music, take care warning sign my family, raise my nipper to be a man, endure represent Belize and the Garifuna people.”

The question is, now depart he's taken Belize by tempest are Jay Z, L.A.

Philosopher, and mainstream America still condoling in Lova Boy ?  We hope so.

Lova Boy  will favourable mention live in Belize Christmas Advance and Christmas Day.  For solon information on the shows flourishing to connect with him, donkey work onto www.lovaboymusic.com.