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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Mikael Wood

Omar Apollo on Catholic guilt, body image and crying after concerts

Omar Apollo makes dreamy bilingual soul music about his life as a gay man, as a son of Mexican immigrants and as a kid who grew up in small-town Indiana before moving to Los Angeles to pursue his career.

He also posts A+ tweets.

Last month, Apollo went viral on Twitter after a fellow user asked whether he was "another queerbaiting singer" — the type, as the user went on, who might say "i don't label myself let me wear cropped and paint my nails and say i find another guy hot."

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