Omar+: The Vocalist-Producer Rewiring UK House

Omar+ is a next-generation UK vocalist and producer who sings on his own house records, and that one decision explains the whole breakout. He grew up just north of London, built a following with the DIY Planet Plus house party series, and by 2025 his collaborations with Josh Baker, Luke Dean, and bullet tooth were sitting in the crates of selectors from Peggy Gou to Chris Stussy. This is the newest name in this spotlight series, and the one moving fastest.

Who Omar+ is

Omar+ grew up just north of London, influenced by classic house grooves and Kerri Chandler on one side and contemporary voices like PARTYNEXTDOOR on the other. Trips to London clubs like fabric and Phonox during his university years settled the direction: bumping house and 4x4 flavours, with his own R&B vocals inside the tracks instead of hired features on top of them.

The sound

The Omar+ sound meshes sung, R&B-leaning vocals with house frameworks: peak-time grooves in the Chris Stussy lane, harder angular edges in the KETTAMA lane, and a cut-and-paste, genre-blurring instinct he credits to artists like Pinkpantheress. The gap he identified is simple to state and hard to copy: a producer who is also the vocalist, building the song and the club tool as one object.

The label story: Planet Plus and the collaboration run

Before the label run, Omar+ built his world offline: Planet Plus, his DIY house party series, put him DJing in basements, kitchens, and bedrooms across London, growing a community that followed the records when they came. The releases then ran through other people's imprints at speed: early tracks Lights, AfterParty with GEE LEE, and Pretty Girls gathered over 2 million streams before the end of 2024, and the 2025 collaboration run put him on You&Me boss Josh Baker's Back It Up. His first release of 2026, Out of My Mind with Ben Sterling, landed on Insomniac Records and Atlantic UK.

Key releases, dated

• Before the end of 2024: Lights, AfterParty with GEE LEE, and Pretty Girls, the early releases that passed 2 million streams combined.
• 2025: Back It Up with Josh Baker, which charted on the UK Singles Chart, and Make Believe with Luke Dean, approved as a BBC Radio 1 Hottest Record.
• 2025: Body Language featuring piri, and Lose Control with bullet tooth.
• February 20, 2026: Out of My Mind with Ben Sterling, his first release of 2026, via Insomniac Records and Atlantic UK.

Live, and why he matters now

The 2025 run was live as much as recorded: a US trip of surprise pop-up sets, a debut at Junction 2 Festival in July 2025, and co-signs from Danny Howard to Jamie Jones. In any house room, Omar+ is the test of where UK house singing goes next: the vocal is not decoration on the record, it is the record.

Where to start listening

• Start with Back It Up for the Josh Baker collaboration, then Make Believe with Luke Dean.
• Play Pretty Girls for the early sound, then Out of My Mind with Ben Sterling for the current one.

Sources

Facts in this profile were checked against Omar+'s Rinse FM artist profile and the Insomniac Records and Atlantic UK release notes for Out of My Mind, in October 2026. Two sources put the first-week chart position of Back It Up differently, so this profile states the charting without a position. No British Columbia connection is claimed or implied: Omar+ has no BRCH or BC link, and this profile exists because his catalogue is part of the sound this series covers.