Check Out Loagz Beatz’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Loagz Beatz.

Hi Loagz, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself. 
I grew up in northeast PA in the Pocono Mountains. From an early age, I liked music. my mother and father both had a diverse taste in genres, and it inspired me to learn. My neighbor gave me a guitar, and I taught myself how to play at age 15. After dropping out of school, I moved to Florida at age of 18 and became homeless shortly after, dealing with some deaths in the family, mental stress, and addictions. This led me to various homeless shelters, and I ended up in Miami, living at the Hare Krishna temple in Coconut Gove. For the first time, I felt like people cared about me. It was a refreshing break in my life helped me quit substances, and got me making music again, becoming more serious. After a long battle getting sober, I saved up enough money to get a laptop at a pawn shop and another guitar, and I started making hip-hop beats and posted them online. I then left Miami on a Greyhound bus and went around the country pitching my music to whoever would hear, working at restaurants, sign-holding, any gigs that would help me get by. When I sold some on the road, I thought I could really make money doing something I loved. I eventually came back to Florida when I found out my mother got terminal cancer. I am an only child, and that was extremely difficult to deal with. I tried everything I could to help her, working extra jobs and putting the music on hold. After she passed, I decided to give it another shot, and it became somewhat of an obsession. I interned at the famous Bay Eight Studios in North Miami Beach, helping record artists from Universal Music Group Atlantic Records, and met a lot of influential and amazing people within the music industry. My sales went from a few a year to a weekly income. I started working with underground artists and got hundreds of thousands of streams on various platforms. I ended up meeting my wife, and now have two children (a boy and a girl) with her. We got a house by the University of Florida, where I continue to make instrumentals for artists and commercials. Today, I am signed with an agency in Los Angeles, Miami, and St. Augustine, where I continue to pitch music and create ideas while keeping in touch with various artists from around the world. I am thankful to be alive and blessed coming from such a difficult past to being able to do what I love and share my happiness with a family. 

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Alcohol and substances have always been an issue. Growing up in the northeast, that’s all there really was to do as a kid, and it was always around. My home environment was pretty negative, and I didn’t have much push to pursue my dreams, but I never gave up hope. Being homeless taught me a lot. I met a lot of people around the country who had it much worse than I did, and it gave me a lot of insight. I feel blessed to have defeated the odds and got a second chance at life again. 

Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am a music producer for various independent artists, labels, and commercials. I am proud to have worked with so many people and met the people I have just being a kid from the woods. I’ve been to places I’ve never dreamed of, and It’s just getting started. 

Can you share something surprising about yourself?
I got initiated by my Guru Srila Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Maharaja, into a sect of Vaishnavism and live a very spiritual life despite a lot of the people I work with. My goal is to build a temple and ashram here in Florida for monks and elderly devotees to live peacefully where we can grow food, have low-cost living, and help the less fortunate. 

Contact Info:

• Website: www.LoagzBeatz.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loagz_beatz/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoagzBeatz/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Loagz_Beatz
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/loagzbeatz
• Other: https://audiomack.com/loagz_beatz

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