▷ Resident Biography ◁ Singer, age, height, pack, girlfriend

Who is Resident?

René Pérez Joglar who calls himself ” Residente ” was the main voice of the Calle 13 group , while his stepbrother, Eduardo José Cabra Martínez “Visitante” was the creator of the musical tracks, his sister iLe also came to participate in several songs with they lending their female voice to some pieces Calle 13 was one of the most popular and influential groups on the Latin popular music scene at the beginning of the 21st century.

Biography of René “Resident”

Beginnings in music with Calle 13

Residente (René Pérez) is a Puerto Rican rapper, writer, producer, and co-founder of the alternative rap group Calle 13. He has won more than 25 Grammy Awards, the most Grammys awarded to a Latino artist, and for excellent pieces of music that he himself wrote.

Ilé, Residente’s sister

He studied fine art for 8 years, before launching a freelance career as a lyricist, performer, and director of many of his own music videos. His lyrics have been critically acclaimed and studied by scholars at universities around the world.

First years in the life of Resident

René Pérez from a very young age had music in his veins since whenever there was a party or meeting at his house he took the opportunity to entertain those present while he sang some songs and even at the school where he went he always participated in all the contests he could to demonstrate what he was capable of since in his spare time his favorite pastime was singing and composing songs; He also studied the saxophone, the drums and by his own account he managed to learn to play the guitar.

In his veins, without a doubt, there were always signs of a born musical talent, since his mother, Flor Joglar de Gracia, was part of the Teatro del 60 company, standing out for his great acting skills, while his father was René, Reinaldo Pérez Ramírez. Although he was a lawyer by profession, he was also a musician and writer in his spare time. René and his family belonged to the middle class in their native Puerto Rico.

When René Pérez grew up, he chose to study accounting at the School of Plastic Arts, but although he liked everything administrative, he always saw himself performing his artistic skills and singing in front of millions of people, so he stopped studying accounting and decided to change to the University of Savannah in Georgia, where he studied animation because, not finding a door that would lead him to make himself known for his music, he did find a showcase in design to let his artistic talent flow, in some way at least.

Thanks to his career in animation, he was able to create graphic proposals for art galleries and also produced several short films, studied fine art for 8 years, before launching an independent career as a lyricist, performer and director of many of his own music videos. His lyrics have been critically acclaimed and studied by scholars at universities around the world.

Why were they called Calle 13?

Rene Pérez and Eduardo José Cabra met in a middle-class neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and became brothers when Pérez’s mother married Cabra’s father. Although their parents eventually decided to end their marriage, the children’s bond remained very strong and they continued to visit each other throughout their youth. Every time Eduardo went to the gated community on 13th Street in the San Juan suburb of Trujillo Alto where his brother lived, he would announce himself to the condos’ doorman and caretaker as a ” Visitor ” who came to see a ” Resident . ” . That was the reason why they finally decided to adopt that name for their band that would later become one of the most legendary in the world of music in the 2000s.

Visitor, brother of Resident

Calle 13 began recording music in 2004, with Residente writing and rapping and Visitante supporting vocals with a mix of hip-hop and other types of electronic music. In 2005, the brothers signed a contract with the White Lion brand in Puerto Rico and subsequently created a stir with “Dear FBI ,” a poignant criticism of the United States government issued in the wake of the September FBI assassination of Puerto Rican pro-leader -independence Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. At the end of 2005, the brothers released their first album, Calle 13 , which included “Atrévete-te-te”the group’s first big hit. With compelling lyrics and imagery that spoke to the middle-class fear of the urban poor, the song effectively elevated the album to best-seller status and propelled the brothers to celebrity.

Over the next few years, Calle 13’s popularity soared, as the brothers gained audiences elsewhere in Latin America, as well as in Spain and on the mainland US. The brothers traveled extensively, absorbing the influences of a variety of artists. Residente was primarily inspired by Panamanian salsa musician, actor, and political activist Rubén Blades.
In the first five years of their professional career, Calle 13 was showered with Latin Grammy Awards. In 2006, the duo won Best New Artist, and Calle 13 won Best Urban Music Album.
Latino, urban or alternative. Subsequently, Calle 13 went on hiatus and Residente released a self-titled album in 2017 that also received the Latin Grammy for urban music.

Why did Calle 13 split up?

In July 2015, Calle 13, the group that achieved tremendous success in the music industry, came to an end and many wondered the reason for this sudden dissolution of the group. René assured that the separation from Calle 13 was only due to the fact that he wanted to start his career as a soloist but that it was in no way because he had problems with his brother, as he declared in a recent interview: “There is not so much change. I am going to continue singing the Calle 13 repertoire. All the songs have been written by me. The name of the group was my nickname as a rapper in college years. I like to do two-hour concerts and that is only possible with those songs. People think that I sang and wrote the lyrics, but it’s not true, I also contributed production, structures and melodies. They are my songs. Things haven’t changed that much.

René Pérez “Residente” begins his career as a soloist

In 2017 René Pérez Joglar, “Residente”, decided to start his career as a soloist and jump into the ring with an album that was written during a long 2-year journey around the world in which Residente was looking for a main inspiration that would lead him to compose and develop your first album. He was really determined to bring to the public a musical proposal that was very different from what they heard on Calle 13 and after getting to know several little-known cultures, he found the African, the Mongolian, the Chinese, to create a record that he decided to call it after him, “ Residente ”and in which he included 12 musical themes, each one with its own story and essence, also as if that were not enough, he included collaborations with Goran Bregovic in El Futuro es Nuestro, Soko in Desencuentro, or Bombino in La Sombra.

In relation to this album and how he decided to bet on creating music in a completely opposite direction to that of his colleagues in the artistic world, René commented: “Rappers talk about themselves and that’s boring. I wanted to do something real and honest on my first record.”

In 2019, “Sharpening the Knives” was released , a protest song against the former governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló. They, as well as many Puerto Ricans, called for his resignation after messages were leaked from a private Telegram chat in which Rosselló and 11 other officers left homophobic, sexist, and profane messages about officers, celebrities, journalists, and the people of Puerto Rich. And later when they managed to remove him from the position, they launched “Bellacoso” the second meeting between the Puerto Ricans Bad Bunny and Residente, in gratitude to all those who supported the movement.

At the end of 2020, the award-winning Puerto Rican rapper released the musical theme ” René “, the first single from his second album as a solitaire, with a video directed by himself, in which he mentions problems such as his divorce and the death of his best friend at the hands of the police, his four-year ban on Puerto Rico after publicly insulting then-governor Luis Fortuño, and feelings of anguish, fear and loneliness as a result of fame. “When I fall into depression, I tell my problems to the window of the plane. Stress makes me sick, I haven’t slept for 10 years… I’m sad and I laugh. The concert is full, but I’m empty” , raps the former vocalist of Calle 13 in the song that was a success in a short time.

“Resident” (René Pérez) scandals

Resident is vetoed by the governor of Puerto Rico

In 2009, his work was notably censored for 3 years after calling the Governor of Puerto Rico an ” SOB ” for firing over 30,000 public employees. However, for 2019 Residente along with other great exponents of music and natives of Puerto Rico such as ” Bad Bunny ” demanded the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló.
The support they received from the public was so great that he wrote the song “Sharpening the Knives”. Recorded in just one day and with iLE (Residente’s sister) singing the chorus and in which the bad rabbit also participated.

The song wasa success and under pressure Ricardo Rosselló resigned, so the support that Residente gave to this movement that sought to remove him from power for his abuses and discrimination against some public sectors was a great success.

Resident mocks the reggaeton players who were not nominated for the Latin Grammy

Resident mocks the reggaeton protests against the Latin Grammy
In 2019 the nominees for the Latin Grammy were announced but curiously, although reggaeton reigned in the world of music that year and the biggest musical hits were by reggaeton, they were the exponents of this genre who obtained the fewest nominations, before this, several singers such as Maluma, Daddy Yankee, and Anuel AA, among others, rose up against the academy and accused them of discriminating against the genre.

Given this, the Resident did not remain silent and gave his opinion, but in a sarcastic way, as he assured that in the world there are more important things to fight for and unite, such as poverty or discrimination, than to “cry” in case someone is nominated for a Grammy. His statement was well accepted and viewed favorably, but others, on the contrary, spoke out against him and called him “opportunistic.”

Resident says that “we are all homosexuals”

The singer, Residente, published through his Twitter account a message in favor of the Gay community where he assured that we are all “homosexuals”. The singer made a comment that raised eyebrows in many because although several supported him, others, on the contrary, repudiated that he could support the homosexual community. René’s words were: “We are all homosexual because we are all equal as human beings. We are all sexual because all human beings have sex. In the end we are all homosexual,” he wrote.

resident against time

In 2017 both singers starred in a great shootout between them and although Residente has already had confrontations with other artists, without a doubt, the one he had with Tempo has been one of the most famous.
Tempo released the song “Calle cul desac” in May , in which he remembers when Residente spoke ill of reggaeton and simply decided to call it hypocritical and double-sided. Resident responded to Tempo only hours after he started a shooting. “My excuses” threw everything at Tempo and reminded him that he was practically nobody in music.

The thing did not end there and Tempo responded again with the song “El Bruto” with which he gave everything to Residente who, before terminating the lawsuit with Tempo, sent him and wrote one last song called “La Cátedra” in which René exceeded the figure of 1,560 words written by him in a rap song.

This Residente problem with Tempo only led them to achieve media exposure in the media, each one made their own judgment about who won the battle and who lost it, however the real winners were the public who enjoyed the musical themes that both Tempo and Resident did.

Resident Girlfriends

René Pérez and his relationship with Soledad Fandiño

They spent seven years together, living a romance with pure passion that began surprisingly and reached its peak with the birth of Milo, their 4-year-old son. But at the end of 2017, the love story between René Pérez Joglar, the leader of Calle 13, and the Argentine actress Soledad Fandiño, came to an end, although they were on very good terms because of the son that the two had together.

Kasia Monica and Resident

In 2019, the former vocalist of Calle 13 published a photo on Instagram in which he is seen in a passionate kiss with his new girlfriend who, although at first no one could figure out who she was, was later confirmed to be Kasia Mónica, a model based in New York

Resident Pack

Although on social networks and the internet people search a lot for the Resident pack or photos in which they can be seen scantily clad or in sensual poses, the truth is that currently there is no Resident pack other than those photos that the artist has published on their own networks and that could be considered as sexy.

How much is the Resident’s fortune?

This is one of the questions that people ask the most about Residente and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. Resident has a fortune valued at more than 4 million dollars tax free and that undoubtedly makes this artist one of the highest paid and highest income personalities in his country. He would only need a few million more to enter the top 100 of the highest paid artists in his field.