I was like, “Oh! This is what viral is? OK! I am going viral!” I shared it on my personal FB and it started spreading outside of my network. I thought it was entertaining, and I figured I wanted to record this to share with my regular friends and not my opera friends, because I didn’t think they would really appreciate it. When I had done that video, it was something I had done in the car by myself a bunch of times. I hadn’t done any content creation before and I never thought I would. Was your hip-hopera video your first dip into content creation? What prompted that?
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The Los Angeles-based content creator has become an internet sensation through his TikToks depicting his everyday life as a professional opera singer, gaining over 618,000 followers on the platform.īelow, Akinboboye talks with Billboard about the importance of shedding light on his experiences of being Black in the opera world through social media – including arguments he has had about whether he is even an opera singer. His experiences have resonated with others involved inside and outside of the opera world.
TikTok has become Akinboboye’s safe space to share what it’s like being a Black opera singer. In consuming it, I grew to appreciate it, and it became my most used app.” “It was awkward at first, because TikTok is a different culture. “It was around the middle of the pandemic… I decided to be a serious content creator and then I figured I would look at Tiktok and consume content to see if I could find things that felt good to me,” he says. The viral moment pushed Akinboboye to find other ways to showcase both his passion for hip-hopera and his everyday life as an opera singer. Soprano Angel Blue, Offended by Blackface, Pulls Out of Italy OperaĪkinboboye’s first taste of internet fame came from infusing his love of classical opera and hip-hop, performing rap opera, or “hip-hopera.” He posted a video of him singing “Largo al factotum,” a famous aria from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, to the instrumental of Kendrick Lamar’s “HUMBLE” in 2018, garnering over 1 million views on YouTube.
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