Richard Anthony Marin was born on July 13, 1946, in South Central Los Angeles, California. The son of Oscar, a police officer, and Elsa, a secretary, he was given his famous nickname, “Cheech,” as a baby by an uncle, who remarked that the newborn looked like a chicharron—a deep-fried pigskin.
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