R B Singer Omarion: I Am An Artist Not A Variant

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"Hi, this is Omarion. I am an artist, not a variant," he says in a posted Jan. 1. "So please be aware that if you just so happen to run into me on the street, you don't have to isolate for five days."

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"The last time I had to do this was in 2000 when everyone confused Y2K with B2K," he says, referring to his roⅼe as lead singer for the boy band B2K, which stands for "Boys of the New Millennium."


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He's also changed his TikTok biography to read, "Omarion the Entertainer not the variant."

And while he didn't cite any specific instances of his name getting confused with the virus, he made two more videos about the mixup. "While it's important not to touch me and keep your distance, cause you know that's how it's supposed to be, you don't need a negative test to dance to my music," he says in one. 

Take heart, Omarion. Early in the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed certain Ⅽorona beer sales would suffer due to the name association. But that after a slight dip in sales in the early summer of 2020, sales of Corona beer actually rose.