Artists to Know Before They Blow Up: El Kalvo
Santiago Rojas, who raps as El Kalvo, didn’t come up in Colombia’s hip-hop scene through the streets. He came through a record player. Growing up in Suba, in the northern outskirts of Bogota, he would spend hours at his father’s house carefully pulling vinyl sleeves from their covers: Queen, Joe Arroyo. He studied the liner notes, pressing play. The ritual repeated at his aunt’s place in Tunja, where a copy of the Fugees’ Score sat in the collection, a record whose cover bridged two worlds he ha...
