René Pérez Joglar From Calle 13 Launches Ambitious Project

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

René Pérez Joglar from the Calle 13 duo returns with a new project that he considers the most ambitious of his career. The Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, artistically known as Residente, was inspired by a DNA test to travel the world in search of his roots, an experience he will share in a documentary.

On his new website, Residente.com, the artist expresses: “I am a resident. I decided to make music based on my DNA, so I traveled the world discovering sounds and uncovering stories. We are all residents of the spaces that confine us. Only here, there are no borders”.

To make this filming, Resident has traveled across four continents in the last two years, recording music in destinations such as Siberia, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Ossetia, China, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Serbia, Spain, England, New York and Puerto Rich. The project will include, in addition to the documentary, a disc, a book and the website.

“Everything that surrounds me affects me and as an artist I feel the duty to reflect it. That is why I collaborated with talented artists, artists that the music industry does not know because they have been ignored for a long time, artists who make music without expecting anything in return, artists with whom I share my blood, just as they shared their stories with me”, Resident says.

After a decade as a member of Calle 13, Pérez Joglar will now release his first solo album, recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York, founded by legendary guitarist and singer Jimmy Hendrix. Who was curious already?