"MARS" & "MARS: Intimate Passions" by DAHREL

This is rousing piece of music celebrating young, gay, black men and embracing their sensuality, femininity, and vulnerability. This album seeks to break barriers, exploring explicit yet intentional themes to empower and celebrate the beauty of queer black men in their full authenticity. While intentionally sensual in theme, it was a point for a male find, explore, and relish in his own desirability within himself. It's an echo for self-love, acceptance, and embracing the unapologetic beauty of being young, gay and black.

It was so much fun designing, writing lyrics, and conceptualizing this art piece. This is my third piece of music. I'm nervous to showcase anything that I make. So anyone who comes across this post or my music, I really, truly hope you enjoy! And for others of you, I hope you can relate!

Listen to Dahrel
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2iLSM07JoazilNJTzAUaOv?si=157fc958a8cc4105
MARS: https://open.spotify.com/album/0q7MsVpKIQBAA4KlJqE5uS?si=kodSyiFsQz6A6A0ye36IDg

MARS: Intimate Passions:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4CVmqqZ0qk4H5RxOEChTSW?si=Oer1zjNyR66qUllIfVH_kA

◘ MARS
01. Intro: Mars
02. I'm Into You
03. Bed
04. Naked
05. Interlude Monologue: Gena Moon
06. Arch
07. Caramel Body
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◘ MARS: Intimate Passions
01. Tower Over Me (Monologue)
02. Breathless
03. Release
04. Bare Obedience (Monologue)
05. Waistline
06. Throb
07. Intimate (Monologue)

℗ © 2023 Dahrel

Released on: 2023-11-14

RELEASE

BREATHLESS

CARAMEL BODY

ARCH

NAKED

IM INTO YOU

The 3 singles from the country album 'Heartstrings & Highways' by DAHREL

"Heartstrings & Highways" by DAHREL
This 15 track country album is a personal story of selfhood and identity and also endeavors to highlight some common themes in southern American life and its history, such as family life, love, Christianity, people of color and the struggles of those people of color, including the indigenous of America that have lived before us. The grander point of this album is to help people reflect on their morals, values, and make positive change in their life where they can.

Creating Heartstrings & Highways was a LARGE, gratifying, challenging, and rewarding process. I enjoyed every moment of it and wanted to step into something new in music. And as is everything I create, my hope is that listeners and viewers will take away some inspiration and do something meaningful. Thank you so much, and I hope you all enjoy!

Listen to Dahrel
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2iLSM07JoazilNJTzAUaOv?si=a93b90adaa49405e
Heartstrings & Highways: https://open.spotify.com/album/3cxhZ2DqiC8wQ2UeT4AqMU?si=yvdeHogMTMWDSf5frmNvgg

◘ Heartstrings & Highways:
01. Worn Boots & Woes
02. Porch Swaying
03. Let Horses Ride
04. Jonah
05. Oil Change
06. Loving Arms
07. Rodeo
08. He Stole My Heart (El Robo Mi Corazon)
09. I-44
10. Looking East
11. Papa
12. Book Of Lies
13. Mother Dearest
14. Lone Star State
15. Home

℗ © 2024 Dahrel

Released on: 2024-06-06

El Robo Mi Corazon

Loving Arms

Let Horses Ride

Dahrel is an emotionally-driven singer, writer, and creative whose music is less about chasing a career and more about honoring a burning desire to express and connect. Based in Saint Louis, he uses sound as another arm of his artistic self — intimate, soulful, and heavy with feeling. His songs explore the tangled threads of love, longing, loss, broken friendships, sensuality, and self-reflection, offering listeners a space to sit with themselves and feel deeply.

With a sound that's smooth, sad, rich, and vulnerable, Dahrel breaks ground as a young, gay, Black man whose work doesn’t follow the genre boxes or tropes — instead, he chooses emotional truth and storytelling. He’s also a one-man creative force: designing visuals, editing album art, photographing himself, arranging vocals, remixing tracks, and writing every lyric with care. His debut album Foreground (2022) introduced him as a raw and introspective voice unafraid to speak on social issues and black male femininity. What ties all his work together — from music to visuals — is his honest, feminine, affectionate, and ethereal spirit.

He makes music for people who need grounding. For people who want to feel seen. For people who, like him, are still discovering where they fit in this world.

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