MUSIC
From Issue #23
Marcos Hernandez
By: Melissa Fargas, 17
Any
average 12-year-old boy would rather be outside playing football
with his friends than staying inside and singing. That wasn’t
the case for up-and-comer Marcos Hernandez, now 24.
“We
were a very football-driven family, and that’s what we all
did growing up. My parents were like, ‘We think you should
do that,’ and I said, ‘Well, I wanna make
music so I’m gonna go join choir.’”
Marcos got his first taste of fame as a member of the Dallas-based
boy band Sons of Harmony, who stayed together for two years. In
2002, after going back to school, Marcos decided to try music
again. “I really didn’twanna be ten years from now saying, ‘I shoulda, coulda, woulda.’ I wanted to give
music my best chance and see if it would work.” And his
hard work and late nights in the studio paid off with his debut
solo album, C About Me.
Marcos’ advice to teens who also
want to make it on their own? “Never accept ‘no’
from somebody who doesn’t have the authority to say ‘yes’.
Never give up.”
