Jose Mangin Celebrates Science + Metal With Public Charity

On Friday evening’s version of Loudwire Nights (Dec. 8), Metal Ambassador and longtime SiriusXM character Jose Mangin frolicked with Chuck Armstrong to have a good time his public charity, Headbang For Science.

“In September of 2014, I was living in Bloomfield, N.J., and I had a dream one Saturday night,” Mangin defined to Chuck in regards to the begin of his charity that brings collectively his love of science and heavy steel. “It might have been the edibles, but I had a dream and it was a very vivid dream and I woke up and went to LegalZoom and I signed up for a non-profit.”

As Mangin shortly discovered, the method to arrange a 501(c)(3) is, in a phrase, overwhelming. On prime of that, Mangin and his household moved from New Jersey to California and so his dream received placed on maintain.

But he by no means forgot about it as a result of it was greater than only a dream — it was deeply private for him.

From Pharmacy to Rock and Roll

Thanks to the 1988 horror film The Serpent and the Rainbow, Mangin fell in love with science. So a lot in order that he did all the things he might to graduate highschool with honors, which he did. He acquired a full-ride educational scholarship to the University of Arizona to check chemistry.

“That’s where I started, [I did] college radio in ’98 just because it was fun,” he recalled, admitting admitted he by no means thought radio would flip right into a job. “I was just doing it because I did it already, I was making mixtapes, I was playing music for my friends. Now I was just doing it for college radio.”

As his love of radio grew, so did his ardour for science. He moved to Memphis to go to graduate faculty for pharmacy and likewise to work on the scholar radio station. With a couple of years left earlier than he might have been a health care provider, he made a change and left to assist run a steel division for a file label.

“I decided to pursue a life of rock.”

But he by no means overlooked his roots within the science world — and that is the place his dream got here in.

The dream that began in 2014 and was placed on maintain finally took form and became the “only public charity dedicated to headbangers who excel in science.”

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“I’m looking for students that are bleeding metal,” Mangin mentioned. But, as he was very open about, in addition they should have a want to pursue research devoted to science. Recently, Headbang For Science awarded its first scholarships — three $11,000 awards.

“The winners are 4.0 students and they’re just the biggest nerds and I love that … I want the die-hard student that loves metal and molecular biology.”

What Else Did Jose Mangin Discuss on Loudwire Nights?

• How anybody and everybody may also help help Headbang For Science, from people trying to donate to file labels eager to get behind the trigger
• Why he thinks laborious rock and heavy steel are stronger in the present day than they’ve been in a very long time
• Some of the difficulties of operating a 501(c)(3) by himself — and a few of his goals for Headbang For Science

Listen to the Full Interview within the Podcast Player Below

Jose Mangin joined Loudwire Nights on Friday, Dec. 8; the present replays on-line right here, and you’ll tune in dwell each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you can even see if the present is offered in your native radio station and take heed to interviews on-demand. Read extra about Headbang For Science and donate to the general public charity right here.