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Larry Hans

Everything needed to write about Larry Hans, ready to copy: La Virgen de Nazaret, the singles of 3 October and Mi Jesús. If something is missing, ask by email and it will be sent.

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Short biography

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Larry Hans is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter and a practising lawyer. In 2026 he released La Virgen de Nazaret, his debut album: ten songs about the life of Mary that he wrote, sang and produced himself. On 3 October he put out Adiós, Goodbye and Adiós Goodbye, three versions of one ballad — in English, in Spanish, and both at once, one in each ear — and his second studio album, Mi Jesús, is due out on 5 December 2026. He lives from the practice of law; music is a parallel body of work.

Full biography

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Larry Hans is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter. He is also a practising lawyer, and that fact explains the album: he lives from the law, not from music, and that allowed him to write La Virgen de Nazaret without the weight of having to succeed commercially. The album's dedication says it plainly: these songs were not born for a stage, they were born to be prayed. The album came out on 31 July 2026, whole and all at once, with no advance singles. Ten songs run in an order that cannot be shuffled, because it is not a compilation but a story: it opens with an apparition in an ordinary house in the middle of the night and ends asking for one last companion. The record opens and closes with the same image, the blue mantle: in the first song She comes down to your house; in the last, he is the one asking to go to Hers. In between fit Joseph falling in love, the Annunciation, the Visitation, the cold of Bethlehem, the wedding at Cana, the Cross, Easter and the everyday prayer. Each song steps inside the scene instead of describing it from outside. One decision holds all ten together and it is the hardest to do: he never sings as if he were Mary. He always narrates in the third person, and lends his voice to only one character, Joseph, in the second track. The same care appears in the theology: traditions that are not dogma are left as tradition, and the Resurrection song was rewritten to say She was the first to believe, not the first to see, respecting that the first to see was Mary Magdalene. Musically, a nylon-string guitar carries the verses, the pre-chorus is always left hanging and the chorus behind it resolves it, and a solo violin signs off every farewell. He signs all ten tracks the same way: written, performed and produced by Larry Hans. In October 2026 he released Adiós, Goodbye and Adiós Goodbye, three versions of a ballad sung in English, in Spanish and in both at once, one in each ear; and his second studio album, Mi Jesús, is due out on 5 December 2026.

Album description

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La Virgen de Nazaret is Larry Hans's debut album: ten songs about the life of Mary, released on 31 July 2026. It is not a collection of devotional tracks but an ordered story that opens with a night-time apparition in an ordinary house and ends with a request for the final hour. Between those two points pass Joseph falling in love, the Annunciation, the Visitation, Bethlehem, the wedding at Cana, the Cross and Easter. The album opens and closes with the same image, the blue mantle, and that symmetry is deliberate. It sounds of nylon-string guitar, orchestral arrangements and a solo violin that signs off every ending; each song also brings its own instrumental mark, from soft trumpets to a music box. It runs about 59 minutes and is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal, and Boomplay, among other platforms.

Artist statement

On the origin of the album

These songs were not born for a stage: they were born to be prayed. I did not want to write about Mary from above, nor to take Her voice, which would have been beyond me. I wanted to tell what happened the way someone retells something he was told and cares too much about. If one of these lyrics keeps someone company on a hard day, or they sing it with their mother, then it has already done what it came for.

Release details

Album
La Virgen de Nazaret
Artist
Larry Hans (Larry Hans Arroyo Vargas)
Release date
2026-07-31
UPC
882422691710
Number of tracks
10
Total running time
58:48
Genre
Catholic devotional music
Credits
Written, performed and produced by Larry Hans. Text of «Ave María»: liturgical, public domain; original music.
Label
Self-released · distributed by DistroKid

The ten tracks

#TitleLengthISRC
1 La Virgen de Nazaret 5:55 QT6FP2692519
2 Cuando te vi 6:03 QT6FP2692520
3 Antes del Sí 5:52 QT6FP2692521
4 Madre de Dios 5:55 QT6FP2692522
5 El día que naciste 6:29 QT6FP2692523
6 No nos creerían 5:39 QT6FP2692524
7 El día que Te dije adiós 5:34 QT6FP2692525
8 Se cumplió la profecía 5:48 QT6FP2692526
9 Ave María 5:48 QT6FP2692527
10 Que seas Tú 5:45 QT6FP2692528

Latest release: Adiós · Goodbye · Adiós Goodbye

Singles description

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«Adiós», «Goodbye» and «Adiós Goodbye» are three versions of the same song by Larry Hans, released on the same day, 3 October 2026. «Adiós» is sung in English and «Goodbye» in Spanish; «Adiós Goodbye» plays them at once, one in each ear — Spanish on the left, English on the right — and is meant for headphones. All three tell of a whole night in a cantina and last exactly the same: 7 minutes and 11 seconds. Each one has its own music video on the artist's YouTube channel.

TitleSung inLengthUPCISRC
Adiós English 7:11 700971018201 QT9XG2670912
Adiós Goodbye (Headphone Mix) Spanish · English 7:11 700971022871 QT9XG2670045
Goodbye Spanish 7:11 700971020914 QT9XG2670669

Upcoming album: Mi Jesús

Album announcement

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«Mi Jesús» is Larry Hans's second studio album: ten songs, 64 minutes and 51 seconds, out on 5 December 2026 on every digital platform. It can already be pre-saved. The lyrics will be published on release day.

Album
Mi Jesús
Release date
5 December 2026
Number of tracks
10
Total running time
64:51
Pre-save
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/larryhans/mi-jess

Where it is released

The album was delivered to 23 platforms. These 10 are the ones where it can be found today, each checked in that store’s own search; in the rest the delivery is done and it has not shown up yet.

Five interview topics

Proposals, not conditions: if there is a better angle, it is welcome.

  1. A practising lawyer who writes, sings and produces a whole album without leaving the profession: how that is sustained, and what changes when music does not have to pay the bills.
  2. The decision never to sing in Mary's voice, and why the album's only exception is Joseph.
  3. Theological care as an artistic decision: rewriting a song so as not to say She was the first to see the risen Christ, but the first to believe.
  4. Writing a Marian album from Costa Rica, a country where two million people walk on pilgrimage every 2 August.
  5. Composing an original «Ave María» knowing it competes with Schubert, Gounod and Bach: why expressly forbid leaning on them.

Press assets

Press photographs. The portrait and the theatre box photo are the artist's official images on Spotify; the covers are the ones the stores use. High-resolution photographs for print are sent by email to anyone who asks.

Cover of the album Mi Jesús, by Larry Hans: Jesus on a mountaintop at dawn, above a city

New studio album

«Mi Jesús» comes out on 5 December 2026

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New studio album

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We'll write to you on 5 December 2026. In the meantime, you can pre-save it: on the day it comes out, it will appear in your library by itself.

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