The name Cain Culto refers to the shadowy, fratricidal Old Testament character of Cain, and the Spanish word for worship ‘Culto’. Born Andrew Padilla, Culto was raised in a Colombian-Nicaraguan household, growing up between Florida and Kentucky within the evangelical church. Culto spent his youth hiding his queerness, trying to conform to his surroundings — a familiar tale of religious trauma many queer people experience — and it became untenable. He ended his acclaimed Christian band ‘Ecclesia’, and broke from the church, reemerging as Cain Culto.
