Cheko7even Bio

The haunting nature of living in exile from a homeland is what imbues Cheko's art with militancy and urgency. Sergio Guerra, aka Cheko7even, is a Salvadorian-born, Ottawa raised Hip-Hop recording artist, producer and writer poetically engaging with the issues around migration, identity formation, memory, and decolonization. His poetic style reflects the time we are living in, times of revolutionary change, for better or for worse. 

WIth a long and storied career as a spoken word artist and rapper, having been director of the Urban Legends Poetry Slam, twice as a finalist at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and has opened for marquee acts like Nas, Illa J, Blackalicious, and hundreds of small to large stages across the country.

Cheko has released several independent albums with groups like Missing LinX and Tapas, and solo projects such as  Codebreaker Mixtape (2022), 4 A Time Being EP (2023) and a string of singles in 2024. His Masters Thesis reads a master in "Hauntology, Hip Hop and Diasporic Memory". With the help of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, he is currently completing an album entitled, "I Never Left The Mountains", using all live instruments, continuing his artistic exploration of the diasporic memory.