When you spend most of your childhood watching the performances of pop and R&B icons, you either shelf them as childhood memories or grow up to be just like them. For multitalented artist Dom Guyot, it’s the latter.
The walls of Dom’s childhood home in Cebu had reverberated with the songs of Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Celine Dion. His dad would buy Blu-Ray DVDs of these female stars’ concerts for him, and if managing your screen time had already been a thing back then, it’s clear that they’d be on the top of Dom’s tracker.
“As a bading, nagpapakita ako sa family ko na I’m gonna copy Beyoncé’s moves. I’d do the little dances sa mga concert niya dati,” he playfully recalled during his Rappler Live Jam guesting.
(As a gay, I’d show my family that I was gonna copy Beyoncé’s moves. I’d do the little dances from her concerts before.)
Unsurprisingly, this would signal the start of Dom’s very own career as an artist. But make no mistake: inspired as he may be by these pop and R&B queens, Dom has tread his own path, and he’s built a sound that’s unmistakably his.
