Residente Journeys Across The World — And Finds Himself Everywhere
Two years after breaking up the Latin hip-hop juggernaut Calle 13, René Pérez Joglar can't stop connecting dots. The rapper's solo debut turns a simple DNA test into a massive multimedia project.
Two years ago, René Pérez Joglar took a chance.
For over a decade, the 39-year-old had been the voice of Calle 13, a Puerto Rican hip-hop crew that had grown to massive visibility. The two core members — producer Eduardo Cabra, known as Visitante, and Joglar, who rapped as Residente — had earned the group three Grammys and two dozen Latin Grammys, and were considered one of the biggest Latin acts in the world. And then, Joglar decided he was done.
"I was starting to feel comfortable," he told an interviewer earlier this month, during an onstage event at the South By Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas. "As an
