Have you ever walked into a bar or club and found a band working the stage wearing outlandish masks, wearing ill-fitting clothing and performing high-intensity versions of one-hit wonders while jumping into bursts of synchronized dancing, engaging in R-rated banter with the audience and occasionally pouring beer on their own heads?
Probably not, but if you did, that was almost assuredly O El Amor.
And who is O El Amor?
They won't say. In fact, the group does its best to be utterly mysterious.
However, regardless of this enigmatic attitude, ‘Amor has been building a sturdy fan base — a movement that is observable as it has become commonplace to find O El Amor devotees wearing masks to its shows in tribute.
- Ian Stark, Newsday, January 31, 2014