La Virgen de Nazaret

Larry Hans is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter and a practising lawyer, author of the album «La Virgen de Nazaret» (2026). He writes the words and the music, sings, and produces his own songs. He earns his living from the law, so music is a parallel and sustained craft rather than a full-time career.

It is Larry Hans's first album: ten songs about the life of Mary, released on 31 July 2026. It is not a collection of separate tracks but an ordered story that opens with an apparition in a house in the middle of the night and ends asking for one last companion.

On 31 July 2026, on every platform at once. The whole album was published in one go, with no advance singles: the ten songs run in an order that tells a story, and splitting them up would have broken the narrative.

On Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and the other digital stores. You can also hear it in full on this page, in the player above, without leaving the site and without installing anything.

Ten songs and about 59 minutes in total. The longest is «El día que naciste» (6:29) and the shortest is «El día que Te dije adiós» (5:34). None drops below five and a half minutes: these are songs written to keep you company, not to pass quickly.

Catholic devotional music with the soul of a crooner from another era: nylon-string guitar, orchestral arrangements and a voice that narrates rather than preaches. It is neither parish liturgical music nor radio Christian pop; it sits closer to the classic narrative ballad.

They were written to be prayed. The album's dedication says so plainly: these songs were not born for a stage, they were born to be prayed. Several follow the shape of a prayer, and «Ave María» is literally the traditional prayer set to original music.

Yes. Every song has a PDF sheet ready to print, with the full lyric on bone-coloured paper, a dedication written for that particular track and the author's signature. It downloads free from each song's page, with no sign-up.

Yes, in eight: Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. What is never translated are the lyrics: they are the work itself, and they are always read in the original Spanish, even when the page around them is in another language.

Larry Hans, all of it. Words, music, performance and production. The same credit appears on all ten tracks: written, performed and produced by Larry Hans. The only lyric that is not his is «Ave María», the Church's liturgical text, which is in the public domain.

No. The album is on the free ad-supported streaming platforms, and on this site you can hear it in full at no cost and with no sign-up. The PDF lyric sheets are also free and can be downloaded without leaving any details.

There is no tour announced. He practises law and his time goes first to his profession and his family. The album is meant to be heard at home, in the car or on headphones rather than from a stage.

By writing to soy@larryhans.com. It is only fair to say up front: in most cases a reply will not be possible, because he makes his living from the law. But one commitment does stand: every message is read.

«La Virgen de Nazaret», the track that opens the record and gives it its name. It tells of an apparition in an ordinary house in the middle of the night, and it introduces the image of the blue mantle that ties the whole album together.

No more albums are planned. “La Virgen de Nazaret” was born as a promise to Mary and that promise has been kept. The only thing published since is the eight singles of “The World Plays Here” (1 September 2026), a professional commission from Zarza Radio: a job delivered, not the start of a career nor the announcement of anything.