The story of how CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso became CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso starts at age six, when a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires looked at two boys with nearly identical last names — Guerreiro and Guerriero — and assumed they were brothers. They weren’t. But they became something closer than that.
Twenty-five years later, they’re coming to House of Blues Houston on Sunday, June 7, headlining a 60-plus-date world tour behind their second studio album, FREE SPIRITS, released March 19 on 5020 Records. The Argentine alt-pop duo — CA7RIEL is Catriel Guerreiro; Paco Amoroso is Ulises Guerriero — spent years performing together as progressive rock band Astor before reconstituting as a duo in 2019. What they’ve built since then is harder to categorize than it is to feel: genre-bending Buenos Aires art-pop that pulls from rap, rock, and wherever the song needs to go. Don’t come looking for a tidy Latin subgenre label. They’d probably reject it.
FREE SPIRITS has earned them the coverage. Pitchfork called it “a breakthrough: a chaotic thrill ride that careens through desire, drugs, fame, and fulfillment like a runaway train.” The album includes collaborations with Sting (on “HASTA JESÚS TUVO UN MAL DÍA” — even Jesus had a bad day), Jack Black, Anderson .Paak, and Fred Again.. Their NPR Tiny Desk concert has 33.5 million views. They swept the Latin Grammy Awards in 2025 and are Grammy-winning. They played Coachella this spring, appeared on The Tonight Show, and the tour hits Red Rocks, Radio City Music Hall, the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, and Ryman Auditorium before it closes.
Houston is a natural stop on a tour this size. The city’s Latin concert audience is one of the most committed in the country, and a duo this theatrical and this bilingual plays best in rooms with that kind of fluency. House of Blues Houston, at 1204 Caroline Street in Midtown, has the Music Hall room for this one. CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso have the vocabulary to fill it.
Doors at 7:00 PM. Tickets on sale now.