Omar Apollo releases ‘IVORY’ deluxe edition

Following his highly-anticipated debut album IVORY earlier this year, Omar Apollo officially releases the deluxe edition, IVORY (Marfil) via Warner Records. The deluxe arrives on the heels of his recent nomination for Push Performance of the Year at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards in addition to being featured on Barack Obama’s Summer 2022 playlist and features 5 new additional songs, including the previously released singles ‘Highlight’ and ‘Archetype’.

Off the back off his hugely successful Desvelado tour – which coincided with a sold-out show at London’s Koko this summer – Omar will return to the capital with a show at All Points East on August 25th, before kicking off his 22-date ‘Prototype’ tour around the US. Including stops at the illustrious Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre and the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, among others, Omar has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket goes to support MusiCares’ work to provide a safety net of critical health and welfare services to the music community. Tickets are on sale now at https://omarapollo.com/#tour.

Released to widespread acclaim, ‘IVORY’ takes Omar’s songwriting to the next level – crossing genre lines as well as language barriers as it showcases even greater musical diversity from the budding superstar. The album features the Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo produced single ‘Tamagotchi’ in addition to previously released singles ‘Killing Me’, ‘Invincible’ featuring Daniel Caesar, the Teo Halm-produced single ‘Bad Life’ with Kali Uchis and ‘Go Away,”’produced by Omar himself alongside Carter Lang and Chromeo.

Omar Apollo is one of music’s most exciting shape-shifters. In just a few years, the Indiana-raised Mexican-American singer-songwriter went from teenage strummer to one of the most hotly-tipped R&B artists of his generation. Apollo has had a transformative but linear journey, from listening to Brandy and Stevie Wonder as a kid to plucking away at a guitar at as a pre-teen, to self-releasing a pair of EPs as a young man—2018’s ‘Stereo’ and 2019’s ‘Friends’—that established his signature “bedroom soul” and earned him love from fans and press. As unique as his sound is, Apollo has garnered as much attention for his lyrics—themes of romantic yearning and self-improvement swirled up with expressions of cultural heritage and identity. In 2020, he released his home-recorded project Apolonio which featured collaborations with Bootsy Collins, DJ Dahi, Albert Hammond, Jr., and more. To celebrate Apolonio‘s release, Apollo performed a livestream concert from Paisley Park, the legendary residence of one of his heroes, Prince. Apollo closed out the year on a high note receiving his first Latin GRAMMY nomination for his collaboration “Te Olvidaste“ with C Tangana.

Omar Apollo’s long-awaited debut album IVORY has already taken the young songwriter to the next level. Despite being at this pivotal moment in his career, Omar feels like he’s just getting started. The artist who once called himself “just a kid from Indiana” is breaking new ground, abandoning all comfort zones, and never looking back.

IVORY (Marfil) Tracklist

1. Ivory
2. Talk
3. No Good Reason
4. Invincible (feat. Daniel Caesar)
5. Endlessly Interlude
6. Killing Me
7. Go Away
8. Waiting On You
9. Petrified
10. Personally
11. En El Olvido
12. Tamagotchi
13. Can’t Get Over You
14. Evergreen
15. Bad Life (feat. Kali Uchis)
16. Mr. Neighbor
17. Endlessly
18. Highlight
19. Archetype
20. Saving All My Love
21. Pretty Boy