Calle 13 (album)
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| Studio album by Calle 13 | ||||||||
| Released | November 29, 2005 January 10, 2006 (Canada) |
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| Recorded | Southern Recording Tracks Atlanta, Georgia | |||||||
| Genre | Latin, hip hop, reggaeton | |||||||
| Length | 48:46 | |||||||
| Label | White Lion Records | |||||||
| Producer | Eduardo Cabra | |||||||
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Calle 13 is the eponymous debut studio album of Puerto Rican urban/hip hop band Calle 13, released on November 29, 2005, by White Lion Records.
Calle 13 was formed when step-brothers Residente (real name René Pérez Joglar) and Visitante (real name Eduardo José Cabra Martínez) began creating music together in 2004. Before forming the group, Residente obtained a master's degree in art from the Savannah College of Art and Design while Visitante had studied music at the University of Puerto Rico. The step-brothers hosted their music on a website, and began searching for a record label in order to release their music commercially. After sending demo tapes to White Lion Records, the duo was offered a record deal. The duo gained recognition for their controversial song "Querido FBI", which responded to the killing of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, a key figure for the Puerto Rican independence movement.
The album was mostly known for its new sound in reggaeton, where most of the tracks were composed of different rhythms and lyrics, without use of the dem bow beat. The album is a blend of reggaeton and hip hop, all with a humorous and sarcastic feel to it in subject matter. "La Jirafa" contains Brazilian-influenced percussion and combined with the theme music from the 2001 French romantic comedy Amélie. With Calle 13, the group started to be labeled as reggaeton, a genre that the duo wished to distance itself from. Visitante commented on the situation: "The truth is that the first record had only four reggaetons. Those were the cuts used for promotional purposes, and so that’s the brand that was put on us. But from the beginning, to me, reggaeton never offered anything musically. My brother liked it, yes, but we always tried to execute it in an organic way, with real instruments and mixing it with other genres."
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