Not all of the music that younger Spaniards hearken to is the reggaeton about intercourse, partying and medicines that performs in any disco at 5 within the morning. A ‘hurricane’ has shaken the Spanish pop scene, and it has carried out so following the orders of the God for whom she sings to share his phrase.
Hakuna accumulates greater than 12.3 million reproductions with its 5 most listened to songs on Spotify and gathered greater than 60,000 folks on the Fiesta de la Resurrección in Madrid this similar month of April. But a few years in the past they have been little greater than “the youth” of Opus Dei.
They outline themselves as a “Eucharistic household” that they observe “along with Christ, sharing a way of life” to study “to dwell kneeling earlier than their neighbor, earlier than life and earlier than the world.” From this group the viral Hakuna Music Group was born, and behind the phenomenon there are the 2 key elements within the revolutions of the twenty first century: a charismatic chief and a very good advertising technique in social networks.
Hakuna, a Catholic group turned musical phenomenon
A mandate from Pope Francis
‘Josepe’, José Pedro Manglano, an Opus Dei priest, traveled in 2013 to World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro along with a bunch of younger folks from his parish in Aravaca (Madrid), the place, in response to some testimonies, they skilled it and They have informed it on social networks, “one thing was fashioned” that might find yourself taking the title of Hakuna.
There, in Brazil, they started to compose songs and for ten years a Catholic group swirled round them that ended up being bought out at a live performance in Vistalegre, attended by 8,000 folks in September 2022. And that has prompted Manglano to resign to his duties in Opus Dei to completely dedicate himself to main Hakuna.
Before that, in 2020, Hakuna had already grown sufficient to “develop into unbiased” from its dad or mum, with the founding of its personal non-public affiliation of the devoted, accepted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid and due to this fact the Vatican.
Two younger nuns at a Hakuna live performance, in April of this yearEFE/Daniel González
Secondly, Hakuna has not found garlic soup by demonstrating that, in the mean time, there isn’t any higher promoting to achieve a younger viewers than to go viral on TikTok, the place movies along with his hashtag have greater than 387 million views, which have allowed 1000’s of individuals in Spain and twenty different international locations to create a Catholic group of younger those that appeared to have dispersed.
This is how they’ve fulfilled the mandate of Pope Francis who, again at first, requested them to “make a large number and set up it properly.”
The Bible and a glass of beer
Perhaps the important thing to Hakuna has been to permit younger believers to get in contact with one another and notice that there are extra like them. People who exit to celebration, drink beer, sing, dance, journey, research, gown in style and revel in life, as befits their age; and that they’ve discovered the way in which that every one these “vices” not solely don’t distance them from their religion, however permit them to create an area of encounter and belief to domesticate the worship of Christ.
The Hakuna live performance on the Fiesta de la Resurrección in Madrid introduced collectively greater than 60,000 peopleEFE/Daniel González
In reality, one of many books printed by ‘Josepe’ is titled Santos de Copas, wherein he states that one can simply as properly ‘love’ God at residence, at work and in prayer, as at events and, in all probability, with a pair extra photographs.
Aesthetics can also be vital to Hakuna: coming into its ‘headquarters’, “El Estudio”, in an previous convent in Majadahonda, is like coming into a ornament journal wherein every part is taken care of right down to the smallest element, following a “boho” aesthetic. stylish” with wood parts, white materials, sofas made with pallets and candles.
Everything in Hakuna is designed to convey the phrase of God nearer to technology Z.
the holy hour
Not every part in Hakuna are events and traits on social networks, there may be additionally prayer and worship to God in weekly talks wherein attendees study to wish accompanied by a priest in church buildings that give them area. And there may be extra, the so-called “God stops”, for individuals who need to deepen their strategy to faith in weekend retreats which are held month-to-month in numerous components of the peninsula.
And this isn’t the one group of younger Catholics that has consumed social networks. Following within the wake of the audio of the music “Huracán”, one quickly arrives at Effetá, one other weekend non secular retreat that gives to “dwell a private encounter with God” to an viewers much like the one which fills the Hakuna stadiums.
EFE/Daniel GonzálezEFE/Daniel González
But little is thought about it, since organizers and “new walkers”, as those that come to the retreat are known as, take part in maintaining the key of what occurs there with a purpose to study “the significance of trusting” and being “shocked”. “.
There are many customers of social networks, specifically, TikTok, who guarantee that Effetá has “modified their lives”, as is the case of the influencer Natalia Palacios, who in contrast her expertise within the retreat with an scape room, on which he won’t say the place the keys are in order to not “take away the keys to residing your magic”, in an interview at Cope.
It was exactly throughout considered one of these retreats, when a big group of individuals ended up organizing a celebration to the rhythm of Chayanne’s “Mother Earth” within the Valley of the Fallen.
there isn’t any hakuna
Hakuna is the phrase for negation in Swahili: “no”, “there isn’t any”, “absence”. And it follows the principle of its founder, who states “do not discuss something you do not know, by no means prosecute if it is not my obligation” as a result of this “lets you worth every part”.
But these arguments aren’t sufficient to silence some voices which are starting to affiliate these new Catholic teams with sectarian motivations with behaviors designed to draw the brand new generations and reconquer the social area that Catholicism gave the impression to be dropping.
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