With the arrival of the second season of The Last of Us, whose first episode was already released by HBO and in Max, singer Macario Martínez inaugurated a new stage of his fascinating career. The official Max Latin America account shared on YouTube an official video of the Mexican singing the verses of “If I lied to you”, a song that created especially for the series inspired by the relationship between the protagonists, Joel. In one day, the theme had more than 40 thousand views in that social network. Macario Martínez, a 23 -year -old Veracruceño, lives a present very different from that of months ago, when he earned a living as a sweater of the cleaning service of Mexico City. He became known worldwide at the beginning of 2025, when he published a video on Tiktok in which he let himself be heard singing “dreams “Life asks for a lot and I am just just a sweeper who asks to listen to his music,” he wrote in the clip. This video, which today has already accumulated more than 40 million views, captivated the audience so much that Macario immediately began to be summoned in different television programs, platforms and musical events. Everyone wanted to hear their voice. In conversation with Us Weekly, Kaarl said he did it, among other things, because he remembered how he began his musical career. Macario themes began to win public on Spotify, where he reached around 300,000 monthly listeners. His career did not stop improving since then, and the fruits of his life are reflected in his arrival in the most popular series of the moment. According to Rolling Stone Spain, Macario began exploring the world of music at age 8, when his mother enrolled in guitar classes to channel his energy, which marked the beginning of his musical training. In 2019, inspired by musicians and his surroundings the Mexican capital, Macario decided to start creating his own music. He recorded his first single, “Goodbye”, using only a hands -free and a cell phone. Despite working as a sweeper in Mexico City, he continued to compose and share his music on social networks. Today he does not work as such and is a hundred percent to his musical career. I can see the emotion that the young man exploded in crying to hear it live.
