Calle 13 Visitante has been a musician most of his life, but it was not until 2004 that he began making music with his stepbrother, giving the band the name Calle 13. Visitante's influences come from numerous musical genres. Artists that were influential on him included salsa master
Rubén Blades, singer-songwriter
Silvio Rodríguez and writer
Tite Curet Alonso. As musical director of Calle 13, he created several popular rhythms and elevated the group to significant standing in the genre. Eduardo functioned as multi-instrumentalist, musical director, arranger, and producer of every album the band released during their 10 year career. All together, Visitante and his band Calle 13 have won 19
Latin Grammy Awards and 3
Grammys, the most by any group.
Debut album In January 2006, their first album,
Calle 13, was released and was a large success. The band won its first three
Latin Grammys, and became the group with the most wins that year.
Internationalization After the unexpected success of the initial album and after traveling around Latin America looking for inspiration, they released their second album
Residente o Visitante in 2007. For this album, he collaborated for the first time with international artists such as
La Mala Rodríguez,
Vicentico and
Bajofondo Tangoclub, among others. This was the band's first album to reach number 1 on the
Billboard charts and the album for which they won their first
Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album. "
Entren Los Que Quieran" is the album with the most
Latin Grammy Awards in history, and Eduardo was nominated for the first time as best individual producer by the Grammy Awards. After the band became known world-wide, and obtained multiple recognitions,
Multi Viral was released, an ambitious album that took a year to record and whose production was made almost entirely in La Casa del Sombrero, Eduardo's production label. The record was produced by his own record label and was mixed by
Michael Brower and
Ritch Costey. For this album, Eduardo was nominated for the second time as the best producer of the year at the Latin Grammy Awards. In 2015, he decided to take a break to take on individual projects.
Cabra In 2020, he began his solo music career as CABRA, shining the spotlight on him as a vocalist for the first time. On July 17, 2020, Eduardo releases his first single "La Cabra Jala Pal Monte". Its release came with an official video which was filmed in Buenos Aires and directed by
Nicolás Sedano. "La Cabra Jala Pal Monte" was also the first release of his own label, La Casa del Sombrero. This song blends electronic sounds with a strong and fresh Latin percussion, creating a hip hop song mixed with his own avant-garde and risky style. In the lyrics, he presents himself as a singer and recounts the end of Visitor as the beginning of "Cabra". His second single, "La Ventana", was released on September 9, 2020. On March 2, 2021, he shared his third single, "Gris", through which CABRA gives an interesting twist to his musical concept, introducing us to a new side of introspective lyrics and sound within his repertoire. The music video was directed by the visual collaborator of Trending Tropics, Niko Sedano and César Berrios, who portray the attitude of CABRA towards the responsibilities and blame that fall on him. On May 31, 2021, Cabra debuted with his first self-titled EP, which includes "La Cabra Jala Pal Monte", "La Ventana" and "Gris", and comes with three additional songs, "Lingote", "Un Belén" and "Quisiera Ser Un Meme". Eduardo collaborates with his daughter Azul in the song "Quisiera Ser Un Meme", which criticizes the need for artists to go viral, drifting away from the artistic purpose of communicating and making art. == As a musical producer ==