"As one half of the Puerto Rican duo Calle 13, René Pérez, aka Residente, has written about the FBI killing of a local independence leader (a 2005 song that catapulted his band into fame), collaborated with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and extolled the virtues of being Latin American in a world that largely sees Latinos as cheap labour.Calle 13 has won 25 Latin grammies (more than any other artist) for their perfection of borderless pop music with Latin American flavour and politically indignant hip-hop attitude".
