The family band was discovered through TikTok after Jairo and Yahritza’s cover of “Está Dañada” by Riverside teen Ivan Cornejo went viral in November. Within minutes of the upload, their video started blowing up on the platform — today it has over 80,000 likes, and Jairo and Yahritza have a combined total of around 1.7 million TikTok followers.

In mid-February, a snippet of Yahritza y Su Esencia’s breakup ballad “Soy El Unico,” written by a 13-year-old Yahritza, went viral on TikTok. After the song was released by their label Lumbre Music, it flew to the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and crashed the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 20, making Yahritza the youngest Latin performer to enter the all-genre chart.