''Residente'' (stylized as ''Resīdεntә'') is the debut solo album from Puerto Rican rapper of same name, released on March 31, 2017, by Sony Music Latin during the hiatus of his main band Calle 13. Following a DNA test which revealed that he descends from people of multiple parts of the world, Residente felt inspired to visit those locations and record with local musicians. The trips resulted in a 13-track album, two of which ("

Somos Anormales "Somos Anormales" ("We Are Abnormal") is the debut single by Puerto Rican rapper Residente, released on January 13, 2017, as the first single from his 2017 debut solo album '' Residente''. It won the 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song. ...

" and " Desencuentro") were released as singles and received promotional videos. The Album won

Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album The Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album (until 2020: ''Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album'') is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, ...

at the

60th Annual Grammy Awards The 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 28, 2018. The CBS network broadcast the show live from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The show was moved to January to avoid coinciding with the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeong ...

. A documentary and book (both homonymous to the album) were also prepared based on his journey. A world tour will follow the album's release with shows in

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, Switzerland,

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and

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Background and production

A few years before the album's release, Residente took a

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that revealed his roots trace back to 10 different locations around the world, including

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, China, and his homeland,

. Such diversity inspired him to produce what would later result in a solo album, a documentary and a book released via Fusion Media Group ( Univision Communications) under the same common title ''Residente''. He signed a five-year production deal with the label. The album was written and recorded over the course of two years and saw Residente travel around the world to the places where his roots are, including

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, China, the

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, Ossetia in Georgia, Antigua,

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, and

Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languages In all these places, he worked with local, mostly amateur or unknown artists, some of whom were poor or affected by war. Despite this, Residente rejects the idea of it being a world music album because he "wanted to do something new". All of the artists would be paid for their royalties. He also said: About the album's general sound, he said, "at a sound level it is not the most organic lbum he's ever made but the most real and precise. All sounds are from those countries, the drums, the voices, anything that sounds comes from that place." Parts of the pre and post-production of the album were done at

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Center in

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. Residente also worked at

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. The album deals with themes such as equality and unity. Though Residente's initial approach to his trips were mainly musical, he was inspired by his conversations to focus on the subject of race. Despite being produced much before

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won the

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, Residente admits its themes could relate to the scenario of the time of its release: "I think that... the topic now is even more relevant because of what is happening with Trump and not only Trump, because there's a lot of racism around the world. ..We all came from the same place, even though we are different, we are equally different". Residente intends to release an English language version of the album and has already translated all lyrics with the help of Puerto Rican poet Urayoán Noel, associate professor at

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. The effort will be put out depending on Residente's satisfaction with it.

Song information

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, Residente's distant cousin, guest performs on the album's opening track "Intro ADN/DNA" and narrates how both discovered their relationship. The second track and first single, "Somos Anormales", was recorded in

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, after a one-week stay. Kyzyl was Residente's first stop in his trip around the world, and 6% of his DNA come from there. The song has guest performances of Chirgilchin and received a video shot in

featuring

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Leonor Watling Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling (born 28 July 1975) is a Spanish film actress and singer. Early life Leonor Ceballos Watling was born on 28 July 1975 in Madrid, to a Spanish father from Cádiz and an English mother, the youngest of four sib ...

Óscar Jaenada Óscar Jaenada Gajo (born 4 May 1975) is a Spanish actor. Career Jaenada began acting at the age of thirteen, performing in Shakespeare plays. The memory of his grandmother taking him to the Rívoli Cinema made him want to become an actor, ...

and

Juan Diego Botto Juan Diego Botto Rota (born 29 August 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish film, stage and television actor. Born in Argentina, he moved to Spain together with his mother (the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota) in 1978. Following early film appe ...

. The romantic song "Desencuentro" features French

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singer

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, and talks about two people perfect for each other but at the same time a mismatch. About including it on the album, Residente said: "Everything that's in my albums are things that surround me, and this

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also surrounds me". The song received a video shot at the Crémerie-Restaurant

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and featuring

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and

Édgar Ramírez Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano (, born 25 March 1977) is a Venezuelan actor. Ramírez studied communications at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. He then worked in media and considered becoming a diplomat. When Guillermo Arriaga pra ...

. While recording parts for the track "Guerra" at

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military forces bombed the region, forcing the musicians to seek a safer location for recording at a church in Ossetia. About the experience, Residente said: The final version of the song includes drums performed by South Ossetian children, combined with a Georgian

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and a Chechen

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. In China, from where 6% of his DNA comes, he worked with a group of

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. About the experience, he says: He mixed their voices with two

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, one from

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and another from

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. The resulting work became the song "Apocalíptico", inspired by

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's "choking pollution and the juxtaposition of modern buildings and a crumbling past". In

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, responsible for 10% of his DNA, he went to

, where he drew inspiration from

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to create "La Sombra", which features

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guitarist Bombino. "Milo" was inspired by a dream Residente had and it was named and written after his son. The song was conceived in

. The dystopian-like song "El Futuro Es Nuestro" projects a future in which people eat cockroaches and the Moon is no more since terrorists blew it up. It features

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and his brass band. "Dagombas en Tamale" features Dagomba tribal singers from

and "celebrates the spirit of the penniless". The closing track "Hijos del Cañaveral", written in Puerto Rico, features vocals by his sister

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Documentary

A self-titled documentary directed by Residente himself was produced simultaneously with the album. It debuted on March 16 at South by Southwest and depicts his childhood, his struggle with

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, his times as a young artist, his rise with Calle 13 and why he decided to leave it and pursue a solo career. It received a favorable review by Michael Rechtshaffen from ''

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''. In the week of its premiere, Residente and his solo band performed at the Latino Resist Concert at

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Reception

Accolades

The album received critical acclaim and some of its songs multiple nominations for the

18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards The 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on November 16, 2017, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It was broadcast on Univision at 8PM ET\PT. This marked the tenth year Las Vegas hosts the Latin Grammy Awards and also marked the tel ...

. The album itself was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Urban Music Album, winning the latter. "

" won the Best Urban Song award, "Dagombas en Tamale" was nominated for Best Urban Fusion/Performance, " Desencuentro" was nominated for

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, "Guerra" was nominated for

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and Song of the Year, "Apocaliptico" was nominated for Best Alternative Song and "Hijos del Cañaveral" was nominated for Best Tropical Song. The album was elected the best Latin album of 2017 by the critics of '' Billboard'', as well as the 19th best album overall of the same year. It was also ranked 38th at ''

Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its ...

'''s 50 Best Albums of 2017 list.

Track listing

Personnel

Residente René Pérez Joglar (born February 23, 1978), known professionally as Residente (often stylized as Resīdɛntə), is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as one of the founders of the alternative rap band Calle 13. ...

– vocals, producer, songwriting (all tracks) *Trooko – producer, programming (all tracks) *

Omar Rodríguez-López Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López (born September 1, 1975) is an American guitarist and songwriter. He has formed or played in several bands, including the Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Antemasque, and Bosnian Rainbows. He was the bassist for the ...

–

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

(all tracks) *

Ted Jensen Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings, including the Eagles' ''Hotel California'', Green Day's '' American Idiot'' and Norah Jones' ''Come Away with Me''. Biography T ...

– Mastering (all tracks) *

– vocals (track 1) *Rafael Arcaute – producer, co-composer, additional engineering, additional programming (track 2, 4, 6–9, 11) *Igor Koshkendey – backing vocals, doshpuluur (track 2–3) *Mongun-ool Ondar – backing vocals (track 2–3) *Aidysmaa Koshkendey – backing vocals (track 2–3) *Aldar Tamdyn – backing vocals (track 3) *Brandon Bost – audio engineering (track 2), mixing assistant (track 4), assistant engineering (track 7–13) *Barry McCready – assistant engineering (track 2, 4, 6–13) *Gosha Usov – assistant engineering (track 2, 6–9, 11–12) *Phil Joly – recording engineering (track 2, 4, 6, 8, 10–13) *

Tom Elmhirst Tom Elmhirst (born 8 June 1971) is a British mix engineer. He has worked with artists including Adele, Beck, David Bowie, Cage the Elephant, Lady Gaga, Residente, and Amy Winehouse, among many others. Elmhirst has received numerous accolades ...

– mixing engineering (track 2, 4, 6–13) *Pan Xiaojia – vocals (track 4) *Jin Jiujie – vocals (track 4) *Li Yang – luo drums (track 4) *Xu Ziling – guzheng,

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(track 4) *Beatriz Artola – engineering (track 4, 6, 9–11) *Haruna Fati – vocals (track 5–6) *Kofo – vocals (track 6, 11) *Dela Botri – percussion (track 6), flute (track 11) *Tamma Cultural Troupe – percussion (track 6) *La Tortuga China – composer, writer (track 7) *Brandee Younger – harp (track 7) *Felipe Rodríguez – piccolo trumpet (track 7) *Anthony Calderón –

french horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

(track 7, 13) *Harry Almodóvar –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

(track 7, 11, 13) *María Santiago –

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(track 7) *Gretchen O'Mahoney –

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(track 7, 11, 13) *Alexis Velázquez – violin (track 7, 11, 13) *Tony Royster, Jr. – drums (track 7, 8) *Leo Genovese –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

(track 7) *DJ Kraze –

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(track 7) *Harold Wendell Sanders – assistant engineering (track 7) *Irakli Akhalaia –panduri (track 8) *St. Mary's Church, Tskhinvali – choir (track 8) *Aznash Ensemble – choir (track 8) *Rhythms of the Mountains – percussion (track 8) *Darejan Margoshvili – vocals (track 8) *Nato Mutoshvili – vocals (track 8) *Rusudan Pareulidze – vocals (track 8) *Manana Alkhanashvili – vocals (track 8) *Alex Berdz – engineering (track 8) *Akihiro Nishimura – engineering (track 7–8) *Juan Camilo Arboleda – musical arranger (track 8) *Julio Reyes Copello – musical arranger (track 8) *Duan Ya Wen – vocals (track 9) *Tang Tian – backing vocals (track 9) *Juan De La Rubia – pipe organ (track 9) *

Roger Sayer Roger Sayer is an English organist and Director of Music at the Temple Church in central London. He was previously Organist and Director of Music at Rochester Cathedral. Sayer began his musical career as a chorister in Portsmouth and then studied ...

– pipe organ (track 9) *Edgar Abraham – musical arranger (track 7, 9, 11, 13) * Bombino – vocals,

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

(track 10) *Henry Cole – drums (track 10, 12) *Panagiotis Andreou – bass (track 10) *Supa Saï – engineering (track 10) *Nyornuwofia Agrosor – vocals (track 11) *Meg Gbrindey Adom – vocals (track 11) *Edgard Marrero – viola (track 11, 13) *Hubert Kofu Anti – engineering (track 11) *Daniela Radkova – vocals (track 12) *Lyudmila Radkova – vocals (track 12) *Ogi Radivojevic – engineering (track 12) *Seth Paris – engineering (track 12–13) *

– guitar, co-writer, producer (track 12) *

– vocals (track 13) *Francisco "Cholo" Rosario – vocals (track 13) *Luis Sanz –

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(track 13) *Héctor Meléndez – acoustic guitar (track 12–13) *Neftalí Ortiz – güiro (track 13) *Anthony Carrillo – bongo (track 13) *Daniel Díaz – percussion (track 13) *Carlos Velazquez – engineering (track 13)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

Official website
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