Xtravaganza
Xtravaganza is an adopted surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Angie Xtravaganza (1964–1993), American performer * Carmen Xtravaganza (1961–2023), Spanish-born American model and singer * Danni Xtravaganza (1961–1996), American performer * Venus Xtravaganza (1965–1988), American transgender personality See also * House of Xtravaganza Founded in 1982, the House of Xtravaganza is one of the most publicly recognized “houses” to emerge from the New York City underground ballroom scene and among the longest continuously active. House of Xtravaganza members and the collective gr ...

Venus Xtravaganza
Venus Xtravaganza (May 22, 1965 – December 21, 1988) was an American transgender performer. She came to national attention after her appearance in Jennie Livingston's 1990s in film, 1990 documentary film ''Paris Is Burning (film), Paris Is Burning'', in which her life as a trans woman forms one of the film's several story arcs. Early life Xtravaganza was born on May 22, 1965, in Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City, New Jersey. Her parents were of Italian Americans, Italian-American and Puerto Ricans in the United States, Puerto Rican descent. She had four brothers. Xtravaganza took the name Venus in her early teens. Career Xtravaganza states in ''Paris Is Burning'' that she began cross-dressing and performing at age 13 or 14, placing her earliest performances around 1978 or 1979. Eventually, her family caught on to her lifestyle, and because she did not "want to embarrass them, ... [she] moved away." She relocated to New York City in order to be able to perform freely. Her ...
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Carmen Xtravaganza
Carmen Inmaculada Ruiz (9 April 1961 – 4 August 2023), known as Carmen Xtravaganza and formerly as Carmen St. Laurent, was a Spanish-born American model and singer. A house mother of the House of Xtravaganza, she was featured in the 1990 documentary film ''Paris Is Burning''. Biography First years and ballroom scene Xtravaganza was born in 1961 to a Spanish mother and an American father in Rota, Andalusia, Spain, the location of the United States' Rota naval base. She later shared having first expressed her wish to transition when she was five years old, and began formally taking hormones at the age of 16, by which time she was living in Washington, D.C., in the United States. At age 18, Xtravaganza underwent sex reassignment surgery. By 1981, Xtravaganza was living in the Meatpacking District in New York City, where she worked as a sex worker. During this time, she first started attending the city's ballroom scene, performing with the House of St. Laurent. In 1985, X ...
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Angie Xtravaganza
Angie Xtravaganza (October 17, 1964 – March 31, 1993) was a co-founder and Mother of the House of Xtravaganza. A prominent transgender performer in New York City's gay ball culture, Xtravanganza featured in the acclaimed 1990 documentary film ''Paris is Burning''. Early life Xtravaganza was born in New York City, one of 13 children born to a Catholic Puerto Rican family in South Bronx. From the age of 13 she nurtured a family of "children" on the Christopher Street piers and Times Square, primarily made up of those who had been rejected by their own families; they referred to her as "Ma". Xtravaganza started doing drag in 1980 and began competing in balls at the age of 16. It was on the Christopher Street piers where she first met Hector Xtravaganza, with whom she would later found their eponymous house. House of Xtravaganza In 1982, the House of Xtravaganza was founded, with Xtravaganza taking on the role of House Mother. The House was notable for being the first primari ...
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Danni Xtravaganza
Danni Xtravaganza (July 14, 1961 - January 9, 1996) (sometimes spelled Danny and/or Extravaganza) was a founding member of the House of Xtravaganza (est. 1982), the first primarily Latino house in the underground Harlem ball culture. Biography Born July 14, 1961 in Puerto Rico, Daniel Camacho was raised in Brooklyn, New York by his mother until he left home at 16. Consistent with the tradition of ball culture, in 1982 Danni took the House name as his surname. As a teenager he studied ballroom dancing, the foundation of the elegant Vogue dance style he performed on the ballroom runways. In ball culture where House members compete in various categories, Danni Xtravaganza was widely respected for his unique ability to compete in categories as diverse as Vogue (dance), Runway (modeling), Punk Rock (fashion), and Butch Queen in Drags (a man impersonating a woman). In 1990 Danni appeared in the popular Jenny Livingston documentary '' Paris Is Burning'' and recorded 'Love the Life ...
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