Calle 13 BiographyIt took the Puerto
Rican duo Calle 13 roughly one year to catch on, after quietly debuting
stateside in 2005 on White Lion (a small reggaeton label in partnership with
Sony BMG) -- but catch on they certainly did. By the end of the following year,
Calle 13 had become the hottest new artist in popular Latin music, garnering
Grammy attention as well as widespread critical notices and steadily mounting
album sales. Comprised of vocalist Residente (born René Pérez Joglar) and
producer Visitante (Eduardo José Cabra Martínez), the duo wasn't a standard
reggaeton act, which partly explained why the pair went unnoticed for some time.
Reggaeton certainly influenced their music to a degree
