Hailing from South Los Angeles, Marin is the definition ... chance to meet the man proudly "Born in East L.A." who now has his own museum called The Cheech (The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano ...

Richard "Cheech" Marin was born July 13th, 1946, in South Los Angeles, California to his humble Mexican American parents. His mother was a secretary and his father was surprisingly a police officer!

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Cheech Marin, a Mexican American comedian ... I was born and raised in Los Angeles as a third-generation Mexican American.