CALLE 13 Lead LATIN GRAMMY Nominations

With FIVE LATIN GRAMMY Awards Already To Their Credit, The Critically Hailed Duo From Puerto Rico Lead The Field Of Nominees For The 10^th Annual Latin Grammy Awards With Another FIVE NOMINATIONS

In Conjunction With Their Highly-Prasied Album Los de Atrás Vienen Conmigo, Calle 13 Are Nominated For:

-Album Of The Year / Album Del Año: Los De Atrás Vienen Conmigo

-Record Of The Year/Grabación Del Año:  “No Hay Nadie Como Tú” – Calle 13 Featuring Café Tacvba

-Best Urban Music Album/Mejor Album de Música Urbana: Los De Atrás Vienen Conmigo

-Best Alternative Song/Mejor Canción Alternativa: “No Hay Nadie Como Tú”

-Best Short Form Music Video /Mejor Video Musical Versión Corta:

“La Perla” – Calle 13 Featuring Ruben Blades

Calle 13 – Los de Atrás Vienen Conmigo

“Visionary…  Few urban acts, in any language, match so much ambition to so much fun.”

– The New York Times

“FOUR STARS – hitmakers with globe-trotting tastes, a riotous sense of humor & unstoppable groove”

- Rolling Stone

“FOUR STARS – A wickedly clever manifesto… highly addictive… Consider reggaeton redefined”

- Blender

“a fearlessly experimental style of urban music unlike anything else out there… simply magnificent”

- ALL MUSIC GUIDE

“the Latin American kings of urban music… [Calle 13] dominates popular [Latin] culture”

– Associated Press

“a genre-redefining triumph” – Village Voice

“simply the best album of the year” – Para Todos Magazine

“Brilliant… another madcap mix of music genres” – Conde Nast Traveler

“One of the best albums of the year in any language” — Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

Top-5 of 2008… “Calle 13 is one of the sharpest hip-hop acts in any language” – Slate

“determined to tell the truth about sex, politics and urban music… Residente’s verbal pyrotechnics are astonishing… the voice of a new generation… a new idealism, [that] gives us all hope” – Newsday

“ARTIST OF THE WEEK… Calle 13 [have] a rich history of raising a proverbial fist (and finger) and calling out injustices like they sees ‘em with swift lyrical metaphors” – MTV

“An excellent third album…Calle 13′s first two albums won Latin Grammys by the armful, but this time the duo have aimed even higher, perhaps to transcend the notion of genre itself. Done and done. Next stop: the language barrier.” – Washington Post

“even more provocative, more conceptually and lyrically challenging, and more musically adventurous than its two predecessors — which already have made [Calle 13] one of the most raved about and relevant acts in Latin music… Los de Atras champions the everyman”- Miami Herald

“an explosive new album…Calle 13 are urban prophets at the vanguard” – People en Español

a new level of Residente and Visitante’s socio-political… revolutionary” – Latina

“Calle 13 is still defying labels… [they are] outright hilarious” – Billboard

“…demonstrates the band’s increasing musical sophistication and Residente’s lyrical inventiveness”

– New York Daily News

“It seems like just about everyone is claiming to be a maverick these days, but few have the cojones to actually be one…loaded with smart, funny lyrics” – Washington Post Express

“Calle 13 excel with defiant and daring lyrics… a new pan-american vision” – La Opinion

“without a doubt one of the best albums of the year” – El Nuevo Herald

“[Calle 13] are in a totally other league… a future classic… a musical work of art… Los De Atrás Vienen Conmigo will become a new best friend.”-La Onda Tropical (blog)

“A Latin Eminem vocalizing the anger simmering within Latinos across the world…  pure unfiltered genius…English speakers should consider learning Spanish just for [these lyrics]

- Bilingual Distortion (blog)

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