He was a charter member of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and the first Filipino President of the Rotary Club of Manila.

Luz was born on December 14, 1888, to Don Manuel Metra de San Miguel-Luz and Doña Segunda Solis Katigbak, best known as the first love of José Rizal, in Lipa in Batangas province, which had become a city earlier that year.

[2] While working for the Philippine Government in New York he took a special course in advanced journalism at Columbia University.

For his work as the Director General of the Philippine Exposition Inc. Luz was listed as a Manila leading Businessman in Miguel Cornejo's 1939 Commonwealth Directory.

In 1937, Luz was an incorporator of the Pan-Asiatic Broadcasting System, Inc which manufactured and operated radio transmitters and receivers.

[2][12] "America, with pride, can present to humanity a magnificent colonial handiwork, the product of America's unique colonial policy-a country inhabited by eleven million people who owe their economic progress to the political instrumentalities given them.

The Philippine commission's farewell ceremony included a formal presentation of material to the Paris Permanent Colonial Museum (now known as the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration), and a luncheon held by the Philippine commission at the Restaurant Bagdad.

[14] In 1932, for his assistance at the Colonial Exposition and as representative of The Philippines, Luz was conferred the rank of officer in the French Legion of Honour, France's highest order of merit.

[15] In 1933 Luz managed the first National Charity Sweepstakes with Jorge B. Vargas and Isaac Barza.

[2] On August 3, 1934, Luz led a group of Filipino, and Filipino-American businessmen and politicians to retain free trade with the United States during and after the transition to Philippine independence.

Specifically, calling to replace the limitations act on Philippine imports in the United States, with more liberal economic provisions during the transition period.

At the signing Luz asserted that the Philippines industry and trade were facing "tragedy and seemingly unavoidable disaster.

[21] U.S. Army Intelligence during the war wrote that on January 18, 1944, President Laurel established a Bureau of Information and appointed Luz as its head.

The Bureau was established to "sell the new Japanese-backed Republic to the Filipino people" through "controlling, directing, supervising and coordinating all information or publicity activities of the government."

Luz before the war served as head of the Philippine Carnival Association, was a high figure in Rotary circles, and in demand as a speaker.

[22] On November 18, 1946, President Roxas appointed Luz to the newly formed the Surplus Property Commission.

Later, he was appointed as Secretary of the Boy Scout Foundation by Joseph Stevenot and served in the BSP's National Executive Board.