Valentina (drag queen)

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Valentina (* 14. May 1991 in Bell , California as James Andrew Leyva ) is an American drag queen . She took part in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and on the fourth season of the AllStars -Spinoffs.

Early life

Leyva was founded in 1991 in Bell in Los Angeles County as a child of Mexican born parents and grew up with the influence of Latin American in culture. In fifth grade, she came into the magnet school program of the United School District of Los Angeles , focusing on the visual arts. As part of the program, she later entered Hollywood High School, where she also studied performing arts such as dance, acting, and improvisation. She then worked as a model and stylist while studying fashion design at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College.

Career

Valentina at DragCon 2017
Valentina at DragCon 2018

Drag

persona

She started dragging ten months before participating in RuPaul's Drag Race . Her role Valentina is a Latina and represents the Latin American culture. She says: "I want to shed light on what it's like to be queer in Latin America and pave the way for the art of drag so that it is respected in Latin America." The drag name Valentina is derived from the chilli sauce of the same name ; her style is inspired by Latin American telenovelas and as her drag mother she jokingly names the Virgen de Guadalupe . In early January 2019, she announced that she identified as non-binary but continued to use the pronoun "she".

Appearances

In 2015 Valentina won the Boulet Brothers' Dragula club competition before it was produced as a series on YouTube from 2016.

In 2017, she participated in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race , in which she was eliminated in seventh place after a lipsync to the song Greedy by Ariana Grande , in which she refused to take off a mask over her mouth. She was voted Miss Congeniality by the fans with whom she was very popular until then; at the award ceremony in the presence of her fellow campaigners, they said she was not appropriate for the title and instead called her “fan favorite”. After the show, Alaska Thunderfuck, season two winner of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars , released the song Valentina as a parody of Despacito . Cosmetics company Lush lectured on Valentina's elimination from promoting a face mask. Valentina got her own seven-part show called La Vida de Valentina on WOW Presents Plus .

In July 2017 she appeared in Elle Mexico as a model for Benito Santos and in October in Vogue Mexico . In 2018, she made a guest appearance in the twenty-fourth season of America's Next Top Model and a dubbed role in Drag Tots, alongside Drag Race candidates Manila Luzon and Katya . From December 2018 she was a participant in the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars , in which she was eliminated in seventh place in January 2019. A few days after her elimination, Fox ran a production of the musical Rent , in which she played the drag queen Angel Dumott Schunard.

In 2019 she was featured in the music videos for two Gloria Trevi singles . In January 2020 she had a cameo on RuPaul's series AJ and the Queen ; in April she was featured in the music video for the new single by Sam Smith and Demi Lovato and a few days later she had a supporting role in the third season of Flowery Outlook .

music

Valentina released her Spanish-language debut single A Prueba De Todo in December 2018 and the partly English-language single All Eyes On Me in April 2020 .

Filmography

In music videos

Discography

  • 2018: A Prueba de Todo
  • 2020: All Eyes on Me

Web links

Commons : Valentina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Valentina in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Cooper: LA's Own Drag Race Contestant, Valentina, Wants More Than to Win . In: LA Weekly . March 31, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2020: "[I want to] shed some light to being queer in Latin America and carve a path for the artistry of [drag being] respected in Latin America."
  2. ↑ Marco Aquino: Sultry California Girl Valentina Wants to Be America's Next Drag Superstar . In: SA Current . May 2, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  3. ^ Mathew Rodriguez: Valentina Identifies as Nonbinary: "I'm My Own Gender" . In: Out . January 14, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c Xavier Piedra: 5 Things to Know About Valentina, the 'RuPaul's Drag Race Star' Who Starred in 'Rent Live!' . In: Billboard . January 28, 2019. Accessed April 20, 2020.
  5. ↑ Tatiana Tenreyro: Alaska Thunderf-k Parodies 'Despacito' With a 'Drag Race' Spin . In: Billboard . October 16, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ Michael Cuby: Lush Cosmetics Immortalized Valentina's Infamous 'Drag Race' Elimination On Its Website (And Its Instagram) . In: Paper Mag . July 26, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  7. ↑ Tamara Santillan: Valentina de RuPaul's Drag Race protagoniza campaña de Benito Santos ( es ) In: Elle Mexico . July 18, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ Enrique Torres Meixueiro: El arte Drag Queen tiene number: Valentina ( es ) In: Vogue Mexico . October 3, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Valentina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leyva, James Andrew (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drag queen
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Bell , California , United States