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Ongina (drag Queen)
Ongina is the stage name of Ryan Ong Palao (born January 6, 1982), a Filipino-American drag performer and HIV activist who came to international attention on the first season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race'' and the fifth season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Since appearing on the show, he has been featured in a number of web series produced by World of Wonder, including ''Wait, What?'', ''Ring My Bell'', and ''Fashion Photo RuView''. He was one of the first reality TV stars to come out as HIV-positive. Early life Palao was born in the Philippines in 1982. He and his family relocated to Seattle, Washington in 1994. His original drag name, before Ongina, was Peck-Peck Galore. He started performing in drag in 2003 at an Asian restaurant called Lucky Cheng's, where he worked alongside then-unknown Laverne Cox. ''Drag Race'' and career Ongina was selected as one of nine contestants for the inaugural season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race'' and was officially announced on Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siasi
Siasi, officially the Municipality of Siasi ( Tausūg: ''Kawman sin Siasi''; tl, Bayan ng Siasi), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Sulu, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 67,705 people. Geography Barangays Siasi is politically subdivided into 50 barangays. Climate Demographics Economy Notable people * Samuel K. Tan - Historian and educator, chairman of the National Historical Institute from 1997 to 1999 *Maria Lourdes Sereno - former Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court *Ongina - drag performer, participated in the first season of RuPaul%27s Drag Race ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is an American reality competition television series, the first in the ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the f ... References External links Siasi Profile at PhilAtlas.com* Philippine Standard Geographic Code Siasi Profile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BeBe Zahara Benet
Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa (born March 20, 1980) better known by his stage name BeBe Zahara Benet, is a Cameroonian-American drag performer, television personality, and musician best known for winning the first season of the reality-television drag competition ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in 2009''.'' In 2018, he returned as a surprise contestant for the third season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars'', placing in the top four. His first EP, ''Face'', was released in 2014, followed by his second EP, ''Kisses & Feathers'', in 2017. His third EP, ''Broken English'', was released in 2020. As of 2019, he stars in the TLC transformational makeover television series '' Dragnificent'', as the event planning expert. In 2021, he starred in ''Being Bebe'', a film documenting fifteen years of his life. Early life Ngwa was born and raised in Cameroon. His family later moved to France where Ngwa lived until he settled in Minneapolis at age nineteen to complete his college studies and to be closer to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motor City Pride
Motor City Pride is an annual LGBT pride street festival, held in Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan the second Saturday and Sunday of June. Previously held in Ferndale, Michigan, the festival moved to Detroit in 2011. It is the largest LGBT event held in Michigan. Craig Covey, then director of Michigan Organization for Human Rights, is credited with organizing Detroit's first Gay and Lesbian pride march in 1985. The Detroit Area Gay & Lesbian Council organized PrideFest from 1982 to 1992. In 1993, PrideFest became its own organization known as South East Michigan Pride and held at the Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, MI with Michael Lary as the event director. In 2001, PrideFest was moved to downtown Ferndale under the new direction of the Triangle Foundation. In 2003, the name changed to MotorCity Pride. In 2011, Motor City Pride was moved to downtown Detroit. No event is planned in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was to blame; the 49th was deferred to June 2021. Notable Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lip Sync Battle
''Lip Sync Battle'' is an American musical reality competition television series that premiered on April 2, 2015, on the American cable network Spike, later known as Paramount Network. The show is based on an idea by Stephen Merchant and John Krasinski, in which celebrities battle each other with lip sync performances. The idea was introduced as a recurring segment on '' Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'' and later ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,'' before being developed into a separate show. The premiere episode was the highest-rated premiere in Spike's history. ''Lip Sync Battle'' has been a hit show for the network. The series' success has led to the creation of various international adaptations. In August 2018, the show was renewed for a fifth season which premiered on January 17, 2019. On September 22, 2020, it was announced that the series would move to another ViacomCBS network as part of the Paramount Network's now-scrapped planned shift to films. However, no new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Tortorella
Nico Tortorella (born July 30, 1988) is an American actor and model, known for roles in filmsincluding ''Scream 4'', the Fox crime drama series ''The Following'' (2013–2015), and the TV Land comedy-drama series '' Younger'' (2015–2021). From 2020 to 2021, they also played Felix Carlucci on the AMC series '' The Walking Dead: World Beyond''. Life and career Tortorella is a native of Wilmette, Illinois, and a graduate of New Trier High School. They are of Italian descent. In May 2009, The CW ordered a 13-episode first season of the drama series '' The Beautiful Life: TBL''. The series centered on a group of models sharing a residence in New York City and Tortorella portrayed the role of an up-and-coming underwear model Cole Shepard. The series premiered on September 16, 2009, to mixed reviews from critics. The CW cancelled the series after its second episode due to low ratings. In June 2009, Tortorella was announced to star in the ABC Family teen drama television series ''Mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven (drag Queen)
David Petruschin (born April 8, 1979), best known as Raven, is an American drag queen, make-up artist, and reality television personality from Riverside, California. Raven was a fixture in the South California nightclub scene before gaining international prominence for appearing in both the second season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and the first season of '' All Stars''. Raven placed as the runner-up on both seasons. He also served as a "professor" during all three seasons of ''RuPaul's Drag U''. Petruschin has been RuPaul's makeup artist since ''Drag Race'''s ninth season and has since become a creative producer of both ''Drag Race'' and ''All Stars''. For his make-up work on the show, Petruschin received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic) in 2020. Early life Petruschin was born to DeShawna and Jose Herrera Chacon (1935-2012) in Victorville, California as the first of five children. Being of Russian ancestry, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutan Amrull
Sutan Ibrahim Karim Amrullah ; (born June 14, 1974), often shortened to Sutan Amrull, is an American drag performer and make-up artist who also uses the stage name Raja Gemini or simply Raja. He is best known for winning the third season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and remains the only Asian American to win the show. Amrullah later returned to compete on the seventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'', an all-winners season. Outside of drag, Amrullah is also known for his makeup artistry on the reality television show ''America's Next Top Model'' (cycles four through twelve). Amrullah's clients include Tyra Banks, Dita von Teese, Pamela Anderson, Paulina Porizkova, Iman, Iggy Azalea, RuPaul, and Twiggy. Since 2009, Amrullah has been make-up artist to singer Adam Lambert for print media, live U.S. appearances, and Lambert's international 2010 Glam Nation Tour. Amrullah currently co-host the podcast ''Very That'', alongside Delta Work. Early life Amrullah was born in Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayhem Miller (drag Queen)
Mayhem Miller is the stage name of Dequan Armand Johnson (born February 9, 1982), an American drag performer and actor, best known for competing on the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' (2018) and the fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' (2020). Early life Johnson is from Riverside, California. She got the drag name "Mayhem Miller" from Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's sex tape. She started doing drag on May 10, 2002, the same year as fellow ''Drag Race'' alumna Raven and the year after Morgan McMichaels, whom Johnson worked with before ''Drag Race''. Johnson's other drag colleagues are alum Detox and Delta Work. She auditioned for ''Drag Race'' every year beginning with season two. Career Mayhem Miller was announced as one of fourteen contestants for the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' on February 22, 2018. She was declared the winner of the episode one sewing challenge. In episode three, she was in the bottom two and lip synced "Celebrity Skin" ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo. The group's line-up during the height of their popularity in the 2000s featured Fergie, who replaced Kim Hill in 2002. Originally an alternative hip hop group, they subsequently refashioned themselves as a more marketable pop-rap act. Although the group was founded in Los Angeles in 1995, it was not until the release of their third album, ''Elephunk'', in 2003, that they achieved high record sales. Black Eyed Peas' first major hit was the 2003 single "Where Is the Love?" from ''Elephunk'', which topped the charts in 13 countries, including the United Kingdom, where it spent seven weeks at number one and went on to become Britain's biggest-selling single of 2003. Their fourth album, '' Monkey Business'', was an even bigger worldwide success, and became certified 3× Platinum in the United States. In 2009, the group became one of only 11 artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a song recorded by American group the Black Eyed Peas for their fifth studio album ''The E.N.D.'' (2009). It was written by the group members with the song's producers David Guetta and Frédéric Riesterer. The song was released as the second single from ''The E.N.D.'' on June 15, 2009, by Interscope Records. "I Gotta Feeling" debuted at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, behind the group's previous single "Boom Boom Pow", making the group one of 11 artists who have occupied the top two positions of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at the same time. It went on to spend 14 consecutive weeks atop the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, making it the longest-running number-one single of 2009. The song was ranked at number five on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 decade-end chart and at number eight on the all-time chart. Internationally, it peaked atop the charts in over 20 countries, and was the third most successful song of the decade in Australia. Critical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11)
The eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' aired on VH1 from February 28, 2019, to May 30, 2019. The cast featured fourteen new queens and one returning queen, making it the largest cast of the series so far; the contestants were announced in a Live streaming, live stream hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10), season 10 winner Aquaria (drag queen), Aquaria and Adam Rippon on January 24, 2019. The winner of the eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' was Yvie Oddly, with Brooke Lynn Hytes being the runner-up, and Nina West being Miss Congeniality. RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10), Season 10 contestant Vanessa Vanjie Mateo returned to the competition, placing 5th. At the time of release Season 11 featured the largest cast in the show's history to date, with fifteen queens competing. This was later outperformed by Season 15, with sixteen queens competing. Contestants ''Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.'' Notes: Contestant progress Lip syncs Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Saffir–Simpson scale#Category 5, Category 5 Tropical cyclone, hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly Dominica, Saint Croix, and Puerto Rico. It is regarded as the worst natural disaster in recorded history to affect those islands. The most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in Tropical cyclones in 2017, 2017, Maria was the thirteenth tropical cyclone naming, named storm, eighth consecutive hurricane, fourth major hurricane, second List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes, Category 5 hurricane, and deadliest storm of the extremely active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Maria was the List of deadliest Atlantic hurricanes, deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Mitch, Mitch in 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, 1998, and the List of the most intense tropical cyclones#North Atlantic Ocean, tenth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. Total monetary losses are estimated at upwards of $91.61 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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