Kobalt’s recording company AWAL has signed an exclusive, long-term worldwide recordings deal with Omar Apollo.
He released his debut EP Stereo in May 2018 with his first single Erase, amongst other singles that have racked up millions of streams.
His 2018 release Today, featuring producer/songwriter Teo Halm, was included on the film soundtrack for Skate Kitchen.
In January of this year, Apollo released the single Trouble and recently released Ashamed, which serves as the second single for his second EP.
Apollo is currently on tour in the US and will be playing at SXSW at the AWAL House showcase at Antone’s on March 13.
AWAL recordings deal offers Apollo a full range of services, including marketing, radio promotion, digital account representation, international campaign strategy, creative support, distribution and access to music data analytics and financials.
“The AWAL team is very proud to be working together and launching him to the next level as an independent artist to take note of.”
Ron Cerrito, AWAL
AWAL President, North America, Ron Cerrito said: “Omar has everything we look for in artist. He’s built his career from the ground up, has a loyal and quickly-growing fanbase and creatively, is always evolving as an artist, which makes it tough to classify but easy to distinguish him in the industry.
“Omar’s seminal work on recent projects has given him overarching credibility and amazing momentum to continue on this path of rapid growth.
“The AWAL team is very proud to be working together and launching him to the next level as an independent artist to take note of.”
Last month AWAL signed a global deal with Danish label The Bank for singer/songwriter, Hugo Helmig.
In January virtual reality music platform MelodyV inked a VR content creation and distribution agreement with AWAL.Music Business Worldwide
