Omar Apollo will embark on a world tour in support of his upcoming second album, “God Said No,” the Grammy-nominated singer announced Thursday via Instagram.
The God Said No tour will kick off in Melbourne on July 15, with additional international performances in Indonesia, Japan and Canada. The American leg will begin in its home state of Indiana on August 20, with a stop in Los Angeles scheduled for October 5 at the Hollywood Bowl.
The album will be released via Warner Records on June 28 and will feature contributions from Canadian poet Mustafa and Chilean actor Pedro Pascal. Prior to its release, the Mexican-American songwriter released “Spite” and “Dispose of Me.” Both singles currently have more than 10 million streams on Spotify.
“It's my take on 'it is what it is,' 'what will be will be,'” Apollo said. ABC News of the album title. “It's not really biblical, but if you want to go there, you can.”
Apollo spoke about his relationship with religion in a interview 2022 with Times music critic Mikael Wood.
“I used to have an enormous amount of Catholic guilt. I was afraid to say certain things when I started making music because of that. It was like, 'Oh, you're condemning the world to hell.' It’s a little scary,” he said, later adding that “I don’t think I could live the way I want to live if I were a staunch Catholic.”
The ballad singer has also expressed his struggle with coming out on her 2023 single “Ice Slippin,” which explains the complicated emotions that come with expressing one's sexuality and receiving an “icy” reception.
“[The song] It's about reliving the thoughts that ran through my mind the winter I told my family, [and] to receive a cold judgment, instead of the acceptance I felt I deserved,” he said in a press release. “This song is a reflection and reaction of all the emotions I had to deal with before and after deciding to leave the frozen streets of Indiana.”
