Hugo Barriol was born in Saint-Etienne, France, but began his pop folk music career far from home, busking in Sydney, Australia. He flew back to Paris, busked for a year and a half and won the Metro Music Awards in Paris in 2015 and recorded his debut EP in 2017. The 1st single « On the road » reached more than 15 million streams.
In 2018 Hugo moved to London to work with Ian Grimble to produce his debut album "Yellow" at the Church Studio (Mumford and Sons, Bear’s den, Daughter) The single « Our kingdom » reached more than 13 million streams. After touring with his band all over Europe Hugo learned to produce his music during lockdown.
With the liberty to work on his own sound, Hugo produced a new Album « Everywhere / Anywhere / » from his converted van, while travelling through Spain, Portugal and Morocco. With this new album, Hugo moves forward to a new hopeful and upbeat sound.
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