Hunter looks forward to the release of their debut album, produced by Kenny Loggins. Hawkins is also set to perform at the historic Newport Folk Festival, in Rhode Island, July 2025.

Hunter has performed on countless international stages—from dive bars in London to cafes in Paris, to the Santa Barbara Bowl, to Manhattan’s The Bitter End. Hawkins has been awarded leading roles in several independent short films as well as scores of musical theater productions, sang for live audiences alongside Kenny Loggins, Bill Champlain (Chicago), David Foster, and Elliot Easton (The Cars), and recorded vocal tracks for projects with Loggins, Richard Marx, and Jeff Marx (Avenue Q). Hawkins’ debut EP, Phase (We’wey Records, 2021), was released to critical acclaim. In 2023, Hawkins contributed two new tracks to a Kenny Loggins Legacy Compilation Album, “Caliamericana, Vol II” released by Santa Barbara Records. Hawkins’ original song, “Seen” and a cover of “What a Fool Believes” listed alongside ones by other esteemed Santa Barbara artists, including Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Hawkins is also a writer-director of several short films, such as their first short film, “window” (2021), which gathered awards and official selections from Top Shorts Awards (Best Original Song “Thank You” by Hunter Hawkins, & Honorable Mention for First Time Director), Indie Short Fest (Best Original Song), the Dallas Movie Awards Festival (Best Student), the Student Los Angeles Film Awards (Semi-Finalist), the Los Angeles Student Film Festival, and the International Fine Arts Film Festival.

Hawkins was recently awarded “Best Actor” by Long Beach Underground Film Festival 2025, and nominated in several other film festivals for their lead performance as "GX5” in “Beethoven’s Great Great Great Great Great Grandchild”. Hawkins also co-leads a recent dramatic short film, “I Don’t Sing Anymore” which contains the artist’s original song, “Seen”.