page_title: Visitante
section_title: Musical career
hierarchical_section_title: Visitante / Musical career
caption_attribution_description: Picture of band Calle 13 (Visitante pictured only) in a concert in Nicaragua. Picture was cropped and brightness and contrast levels were increased.
context_page_description: Eduardo José Cabra Martínez, better known by his stage name "Visitante Calle 13" or simply "Visitante", is a Puerto Rican musician, multi-instrumentalist and musical composer of the Puerto Rican band Calle 13, which also includes his siblings Ileana Cabra and René. They began their career making alternative reggaeton, but have moved away from the genre, taking an experimental and varied approach to music, with their lyrics being more geared to social and political concerns which combines hip hop and urban with various Latin American musical styles.
context_section_description: Visitante has been a musician most of his life, but it was not until 2004 that he began making music with his step-brother Residente, giving the band the name Calle 13. The step-brothers hosted their music on a website, and began searching for a record label in order to release their music commercially.  After sending demo tapes to White Lion Records, the duo was offered a record deal.  The duo gained recognition for their controversial song "Querido FBI", which responded to the killing of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, a key figure for the Puerto Rican independence movement.
  Cabra chose his stage name "Visitante" because that is how he had to identify himself to the guard every time he returned to his brother's house in  Trujillo Alto. 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.
  Visitante and his band Calle 13 have won 19 Latin Grammy Awards and 3 Grammys, the most by any group.
caption: Visitante performing in Nicaragua in 2009.
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