Kevin Kaarl

Kevin Eduardo Hernández Carlos (born May 15, 2000), known artistically as Kevin Kaarl is a Mexican folk singer and composer.

In 2014 he stopped playing the guitar and singing to start a photography and film project.

Before starting his musical project, Kaarl played guitar, while his twin brother Bryan, who plays the trumpet, sang backup vocals during their live performances.

Kevin was studying communication due to his interest in photography, cinema and journalism before dedicating himself completely to music.

Among his musical influences are Norteño, classical music and rock music, however, the main genres that make up his discography include folk, indie and alternative.

He released his first single "Amor viejo" on September 18, 2018, and began to capture the public's attention, with more than 7 million views on YouTube.

That December, he rose to fame with the release of his "Vámonos a marte" single that reached more than 23 million views on YouTube and 104 million on Spotify.

It achieved success thanks to social media virality.

In his childhood and adolescence, Kevin participated in different choirs and musical bands.

At the age of 7 he joined a youth band in Meoqui, Chihuahua.

In elementary school, he joined the school choir, and years later he joined another band in his home town.

In 2018, together with his twin brother, Bryan Kaarl, who acts as a trumpet player and doing second vocals, they would begin their musical project, Kevin Kaarl, releasing their first song «Amor viejo on YouTube, the which exceeded 19 million views.

Some time later he would add his songs to digital platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.

Kaarl has two studio albums: Hasta el fin del mundo (2019) and París, Texas (2022)., in addition to one EP, San Lucas (2019).

Among his most popular songs are songs such as; "San Lucas", "Vámonos a marte" ("Let's go to Mars"), "Colapso" ("Collapse"), "Es que yo te quiero a ti" ("I love you"), "Si supieras" ("If you only knew"), "Toda esta ciudad" ("This whole city"), "Amor viejo" ("Old love"), "Abrazado a ti" ("Hugging you"), "Mujer distante" ("Distant Woman"), "Tu si eres real" ("You're real"), "Cómo me encanta" ("How I love it").

Several of them have entered the Top 10 in different countries; Vámonos a mars reached the number one position on the Top 40 Charts in Chile,

"San Lucas" also reached number one on the Youtube Top 100 Songs charts in Mexico.

In addition to singing in Spanish, he also sings in English and has composed songs such as "Next to you", "Good times", "Selfish pretty girl", among others.

He has also collaborated with artists such as Leon Bridges, and León Marinero, Daniel Quién and Pablo Díaz-Reixa.

He has gained international popularity by performing outside of Mexico, in countries such as United States, and in Europe, including Spain and Germany, as well as in countries in South America, such as Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Perú and Ecuador.

He has also played at music festivals such as Vive Latino, the Pal Norte and the Primavera Sound.

Kevin expressed a strong interest in music from an early age, participating in different school musical bands.

In an interview with Ricardo O'Farrill he mentioned that he was also in norteño music groups during his childhood and adolescence with his twin brother Bryan.

thus learning to play different instruments, including the guitar and the trumpet.

As he grew up, he leaned more towards the guitar and, he says, he started writing songs out of boredom in his room as a hobby he decided to upload them to his YouTube channel and unexpectedly began to have many views, which made him focus more on this independent musical project.

Before this project Kevin was interested in starting a photography project.

On February 28, 2019, his debut album, Hasta el fin del mundo, was released.

It included singles such as, "Si supieras" ("If you knew"), "Vámonos a marte" and "Colapso", surpassing 100 million views on digital platforms.

Later that same year, on November 7, he released an EP titled San Lucas, from which his best-known singles are "San Lucas" and "Abrazado a ti".

He also released different songs, such as "Next to you", a single he sings in English, "Quédate" and "Más y más", in a collaboration with Sebastián Romero.

On November 27, 2020, he released the music video for the song "Es que yo te Quiero a ti" as a show of support for the women victims of feminicide.

In 2023, Billboard magazine recognized him as one of the 23 Latin artists who had the most impact on music that year.

In 2020, he released the single "Es que yo te Quiero a ti", during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the clip for this single, Kevin promoted the non-profit organization Justicia para nuestras hijas ("Justice for our daughters") and portrayed the pain suffered by families of victims of femicide in Mexico.

In 2021, Kevin only released two more works, "Por ti me quedo en San Luis", along with singer Un León Marinero and "Toda esta ciudad".

In addition, he worked Mexican musician Daniel Quién's album Aroma a nostalgia on the song "Dime que siempre vamos a estar juntos" ("Tell me that we are always going to be together").

That same year, it was announced that he would be part of the list of artists at the Vive Latino 2022 festival.

On June 14, 2021, Kevin announced that he was working on a new album, however, it was not until July 28, 2022, that he announced the release date of August 25, 2022, when he released his second studio album, Paris Texas.

On June 2 the music video of "Como me encanta" was released on YouTube as the single that would open the new album.

Paris Texas was inspired by the film Paris, Texas.