Tegui Calderón Rosario is a rapper, singer, and actor from Puerto Rico. He started performing in 1996, and Eddie Dee, a well-known Puerto Rican rapper, encouraged him by including him on his second studio album, El Terrorista De La Lrica, which was published in 2000. With the release of his debut album, El Abayarde, in 2003, Calderón achieved success on a global scale and was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award. The album sold 300,000 copies globally.