Does Calle 13 sound familiar to you? It is a musical duo of Puerto Rican origin of urban music that is formed by two stepbrothers. Their names are René Pérez Joglar and Eduardo Cabra Martínez, although they are known by their nicknames, so the names Resident and Visitor may be more familiar to you. They were born in 1978 and were conceived when René's mother and Eduardo's father married.
His name comes from Calle 13, which was where René lived and Eduardo was going to visit him, since his parents, although they married, later divorced, but they continued to maintain contact since they have always had a good fraternal relationship. When they finished their studies they decided to show their music through a website. After a year they were contacted to release their first album but it would not be until the second single when they began to be recognized internationally. In 2007 they released their second album.
They have different muscular styles but in 2008 and 2010 they released their third and fourth albums and they focus more on a social commitment through elements of Latin American folklore. In 2015 they took a break to carry out personal projects, but his lyrics continue to mark the hearts of many people.
Below you will find a compilation of phrases that will make you understand why they are known by so many people with Spanish among their dominant languages. Through their lyrics, their musical eclecticism and satirical lyrics show that what they want is to criticize society in order to reach the hearts of more people. Above all, they focus on Latin American politics and also current affairs worldwide in order to reach more followers internationally. Do not miss everything that his lyrics have for you ...
30 phrases from Calle 13's songs that will make you think
- I don't believe in the church, but I believe in your gaze, you are the sun on my face when I wake up, I am the life that I already have, you are the life that I lack.
- I do not have everything calculated, nor my life resolved, I only have a smile and I hope one of return.
- Gross work but proudly shared here, mine is yours. This town does not drown with marullos and if it collapses I will rebuild it.
- Calm people! That here I am, what they do not say I say! What you feel I feel because I am like you and you are like me.
- Atea, diabolical or Catholic, it doesn't matter! They all scream the same as symphonic.
- Within the logic of our humanity, we believe the lie and no one can bear the truth.
- What is the script? If I fight for the uneducated ... do I have to be illiterate?
- Today, you are going to be my girlfriend, we are going to beat each other until we get claustrophobic.
- Painting the walls with spray in the streets I raise my banner and spread it with only one person who reads it and it begins to change the world!
- You do not need bullets to prove a point, it is logical; you cannot speak to a deceased.
- Stop talking does not mix with brave people.
- Stop talking does not mix with brave people.
- The more the years pass, I contradict myself when I think. Time does not move me, I move with time. I am the desire to live, the desire to cross, the desire to know what there is after the sea.
- I go without a watch, I don't have a calendar. I don't believe in manners, nor do I believe in dictionaries.
- Don't talk to me about posters, or about the Sopranos, the biggest mafia lives in the Vatican, with the trick of faith they fuck people, they fuck anyone who thinks differently.
- My music is not for discos, my music is to sow a seed in a couple of empty heads.
- I don't want to be your favorite artist, nor am I interested in representing Puerto Rico, to represent my country there are athletes, my thing is to let go of my tongue and let it slide down the track.
- I can blow the clouds so you have a nice day. I also know how to communicate by telepathy. For you, I cross borders without a visa and bring a good smile to the Mona Lisa.
- I go against everything, I make the wind sweat. Every step I take, it narrates a story. Even my exploits are amazed, history haunts me because I turned it into a shadow.
- From repeating himself he learned from his mistakes, for the old man it is an abyss, living is not so beautiful when you live the same thing every day. He would like to be different but repeating himself and controlling the time he already does it instinctively.
- Today the sun hid and did not want to come out, saw you wake up and was afraid of dying. You opened your eyes and the sun put away his brush, because you paint the landscape better than he does.
- Now take off your suit, skirt and shirt. Take off clothes, brands, labels. To change the world bare your courage, honesty has no clothes or makeup.
- It is not worth the time but the memories are worth. The seconds are not counted, stories are told. Patience is what is harvested, my calendar has no date.
- Walking in a raffle of stars, a journey with perfect weather. Give me a smile with the taste of wind.
- Although it sounds strange, I listen to idiots, to have a smart person who doesn't say anything, I prefer an idiot who talks a lot. And of all that he speaks, I have heard some good idea, one of those that the wise man kept to himself for fear of being judged.
- The ants deceive you, they attack as a team like piranhas, even though they are small, thanks to the union they all become a truck.
- For you, everything I do I do for you. It's that you get the best of me. I am everything I am, because you are everything I want.
- Oh, those who murder and don't show their faces, the rich man gives the order and the poor man shoots it. No bullets are needed to prove a point. It is logical, you cannot speak to a deceased person.
- I want to walk over your hair until I reach the navel of your ear and recite a little tickling and give you a clam sheet.
- I am the one that nobody understands, the crazy insane voice of the people, the most good people, everything I talk to you is going to be unpleasant, very intelligent and supposedly unhealthy.
