Hakuna

Hakuna is a Catholic youth movement founded in 2012 in Spain, as part of the preparations for World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. Legally it is a private association of lay faithful, and has a musical group called Hakuna Group Music. At present the musical group features more than forty musicians and singers from within the association.

Hakuna began in 2012 as part of the preparations for World Youth Day 2013, to be held in Rio de Janeiro. Inspired by the phrase of Pope Francis: "Make a mess, go out to the streets to live the gospel", afterwards, the priest José Pedro Manglano, began to meet with a group of young people in the parish of San José María de Aravaca, to pray holy hours, compose songs, give talks by a speaker, and other meetings.

In 2020, the directors of Opus Dei allowed their member José Pedro Manglano to lead and guide Hakuna, who until then was incardinated in the Prelature of Opus Dei.

In September 2022, Hakuna's musical group gathered 8,000 people at the Palacio Vistalegre, Madrid, to present their album Qaos. The concert went viral on social networks (such as TikTok and Instagram), primarily with the song Huracán, which has more than two million views.

Since its founding, Hakuna has been growing exponentially, currently present in almost all the provincial capitals of Spain, and some cities in Europe and North and South America.