{"id":131274,"date":"2017-11-15T00:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T05:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=131274"},"modified":"2017-11-15T00:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T05:36:49","slug":"residente-feels-freer-after-first-solo-album-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/15\/residente-feels-freer-after-first-solo-album-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Residente feels freer after first solo album success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131277\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Residente.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131277\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Residente.jpg\" alt=\"The Puerto Rican rapper, who has a leading nine nominations including album, song, and record of the year, admits that he felt pressured to do \u201csomething huge and great\u201d after spending a decade with Calle 13, the most decorated act in the history of the Latin Grammys. (Photo: Residente\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Residente.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Residente-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Residente-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Puerto Rican rapper, who has a leading nine nominations including album, song, and record of the year, admits that he felt pressured to do \u201csomething huge and great\u201d after spending a decade with Calle 13, the most decorated act in the history of the Latin Grammys. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/residente\/photos\/a.668583736620472.1073741830.668514743294038\/1260570894088417\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/residente\/\">Residente\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Whatever happens at Thursday&#8217;s Latin Grammys, Residente can relax.<\/p>\n<p>The Puerto Rican rapper, who has a leading nine nominations including album, song, and record of the year, admits that he felt pressured to do \u201csomething huge and great\u201d after spending a decade with Calle 13, the most decorated act in the history of the Latin Grammys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidente\u201d is his first solo album. It includes 13 songs that he wrote and recorded over two years travelling around some of his ancestors&#8217; countries of origin, based on a DNA test. He started in the Russian province of Siberia, and also visited China, The Caucasus and West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Residente is going to perform at the Latin Grammys, which will air live on Univision from Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Whatever happens at Thursday&#8217;s Latin Grammys, Residente can relax. The Puerto Rican rapper, who has a leading &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[33187,33188,33186],"class_list":["post-131274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-first-solo-album","tag-puerto-rican-rapper","tag-residente","mauthors-sigal-ratner-arias","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}