Sasha Velour Biography

Sasha Velour is a drag performer who identifies as both men and a woman. Velour's work charts new terrain for drag and develops new venues for LGBTQ artists to flourish through multi-media performance, activism, and design. Velour gained widespread recognition in 2017 after taking first place in the ninth season of the reality TV series RuPaul's Drag Race, which won eight Emmys and received eight more nominations in the same year. The AV Club labeled her last lip-synch to Whitney Houston's "So Emotional" "the performance of the year," Entertainment Weekly named it one of "TV's Greatest Musical Moments on Television," and the song had a 500% boost in streaming plays that summer. Her live performances have been praised as "heart-wrenching" and "a whole new level of performance art" (Yahoo) (Billboard). She is renowned for fusing emotional sadness with theatrical exploits and for being a pioneer in the use of projection mapping in lip-synch drag shows. Her debut solo performance, Sasha Velour: Smoke and Mirrors, launched its 2019 tour in Australia and New Zealand in January.

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