Joseph Calderon

                   Joseph Calderon was born from his Irish Mother and his Puerto Rican Father in Allentown which is a small town in Pennsylvania in 1994. Due to having a young mother and a prisoner father, he was adopted by his grandmother at the age of 3, on his fathers side. His grandparents moved him to Orlando. During this period of his life, he was interested in playing basketball and playing video games. Because he was far from his parents, his grandparents tried to give him everything they could so that he would be happy.
                    He was surrounded by older people and didn’t know how to act. He preferred to be alone and enjoyed the Spanish music which his grandparents would always play. They used to play every well known
Spanish music artist such as El Gran Combo, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, etc. He enjoyed spending his time trying to imitate Michael Jackson to his fake audiences just as every kid would. He enjoyed listening to Latino music, pop music, and Michael Jackson Songs. I fell in love listening to hip-hop beats when I was 9 years old when I heard NBA street volume two and the song They Reminisce Over You
(TROY) by Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth. Middle School was a game-changer, I completely fell in love with hip hop music. It was the time when I was introduced to Tpain, Akon, Boosie, Yung Joc, Plies, and many incredible artists. These artists are my inspiration to become the person I am now. Tpain and Plies were my biggest inspiration that I even made my version of their song Shawty later in my career..
This whole career just started with a simple talk on the lunch table when I was in 10th Grade. I was sitting with a kid named Phil aka Kid Flash, he was writing songs in his notebook. We got along easily, He asked, “who can make music?” and I replied, “I can”. I love music but I had no idea how to make it, produce it nor write it. I was very nervous when he asked me to come over to his little studio setup. It went well and we made a song called Please You. This made me fall in love with the idea of music-making. After that, I tried making music by myself and also asking for help from my friend Clarence. After that we made a couple of songs. We were young so we didn’t take it seriously. But I tried to approach other artists and rappers in school who have the same music style as me. I became close with Justin aka YoungJedi who seemed to be exactly who I wanted, we liked a similar type of hip hop music sound and style. We were just starting, we had our rap names. Lil’ Saint was my name and Jcity for him. We were just dropping song after song on Soundcloud. Our Song “In God Trust” was the most popular and most liked of our songs. We felt we had a different sound from everyone so we created a group called Unorthodox Ent Movement. This movement went on for years until I became confident to go solo as an artist. Joseph Calderon recently released Logic’s Beat. The Borat Beat was created by Logic for his fans to use. He said, “It is so different!”. I was always
compared to Logic so why not use the beat. Many have also compared me to my other favorite artists such as Joyner Lucas, NF, and Lupe Fiasco.
                  I was featured recently on a podcast for https://www.dagr8fmlatino.com and interviews by D’shon El Villano for this coming Halloween Music Festival in Miami, Wynwood, hosted by DJ Oski, was also featured on a podcast called Under The Radar on Ithaca College radio station where they focus on the independent artist that haven’t been heard of yet. Also had the pleasure of being featured in Slovak Magazine Plot Point.