Marcos Loya has gone from a rough childhood to a magic career – A kid marked for prison or grunt work surprised everyone by becoming a world-class composer and the musical force behind SCR’s ‘La Posada Mágica.’
Tagged: California, Los Angeles, MECha, prison, teacherPosted on: December 10th, 2007
Early in his life, nobody singled out composer-musician Marcos Loya for greatness. Some of his teachers at Bell Gardens High School doubted he would even stay out of jail.
“By the third grade I was tracked to be a criminal or an auto mechanic,” Loya said. “They didn’t even bother to see what I had to offer or what the issue was with my reading problem.” (Loya had dyslexia, which went undiagnosed for years.)
“In high school, one of my teachers asked everybody what kind of career they wanted,” Loya recalled. “When I said I wanted to be a musician, he told me, ‘That is never going to happen.’ “”*
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