Luis A. Lozada Jr.

Son of Puerto Rican legend Vico C, Luis Armando Lozada Jr. moved to Orlando FL. with the family at the age of 4 where Vico and the family started a new life and settled for 10 years. Luis was always artistically inspired by movies, tv shows and music. At the age of 1 Luis was already inspired and moved by The Lion King and winning dance competitions in carnivals. Winning talent shows at 7 years old he was always obsessed wit with theme parks in Disney World and Universal Studios he always wanted to create his own one day after playing with the Google Sketchup software where he created and designed 3d models. This led him to dream of being and architect and create worlds himself. He always enjoyed movie series like Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Terminator and Avatar: the last Airbender and many video games. This fueled his dreams of wanting to create worlds and stories filled with multiple plots and characters. But at the age of 13 he finally had more interest in music when he started "fitting in" with the crowd. Because he became more familiar with HipHop in general he became inspired by Hip Hop. a former Vico C DJ introduced Luis to the Fruity Loops beatmaking software and he instantly began producing beats until the age of 14 where he started rapping as "Shuga Daddy" after being inspired by Timbaland and Kanye West. Later produced and engineered all his songs and at 16 years old was performing in Puerto Rican competitions after moving there in and dance battles for a few months after moving to PR in 2009. in 2010 He changed his name to LoUPz and found an identity as a person and in music. He released a pair of mixtapes called Homecoming: The Diploma and Homecoming: The Terminal on datpiff. later in 2014 flew to New York and decided to settle there after his father Vico C was made a part of the Zulu Nation which also led him to meet Afirka Bambatta and the Nation after they heard him rap at the Zulu Anniversary. after releasing many single on youtube which have gotten thousands of views and many feedback from allover latin america he started releasing videos with he directed and edited himself. in 2016 he was casted twice to fill the role of his father Vico C in his biopic. This would be the official LoUPz acting debut already getting critics claiming its setting standards for acting in Puerto Rican Films. Directors already have him casted for future Puerto Rican films. In October, Because of the amount of views and feedback on youtube LoUPz decided to release his 3rd mixtape "WE ALL DIE YOUNG" filled with catchy and energetic anthems just created for everyone to feel young. after releasing 2 videos for WE ALL DIE YOUNG, LoUPz released NEBULA just a few months later. NEBULA is a project with a large plot, message, world and many characters leaving room to expand the universe and adapt it into other forms of entertainment in the future.