April Carrión is the stage name of Jason Carrión (born April 23, 1989), a Puerto Rican

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and television personality best known for their appearance on the sixth season of ''

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''.

Early life

Carrión was born in

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on April 23, 1989. They are the youngest of three brothers- all of which are gay. In 2007, they attended the School of Plastic Arts and Design of Puerto Rico, where they earned a

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. They started doing drag when they were 20 years old. The name April Carrión comes from the month they were born and their last name.

Career

Carrión was the winner of the Miss Krash Puerto Rico pageant in 2011. They won a pageant with one of the prizes being in a

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music video. Carrión appeared in Estefan's "

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" in 2012. They were announced as one of fourteen contestants for the sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in February 2014. On the show, Carrión beat Vivacious in a lip-sync to

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’s "Shake It Up" and was eliminated on the following episode (placing eleventh overall). After being eliminated, Carrion posted photos on social media of their runway looks had they remained in the competition, the first ''Drag Race'' alumni to do so. In 2018, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers of Vulture.com ranked one of Carrión's runway looks on the show number 58 in a list of "The 100 Greatest ''RuPaul’s Drag Race'' Looks of All Time". In 2020, Out said: "Carrion made an impression on season six of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. The Puerto Rican performer didn't make it far, but it wasn't for lack of talent: her season was inarguably one of the strongest in terms of casting. It was packed with the likes of Courtney Act, Bianca Del Rio, and Bendelacreme. In fact, the lip sync that sent her home has gone down in ''Drag Race'' herstory as one of the most iconic given that it was against the show's true lip-sync assassin Trinity K. Bonet. And when you watch Carrion in the footage, she still puts on quite a show." Outside of ''Drag Race'', Carrión was with other alumni for an episode of ''

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''. Carrión was one of the stars of the 2014 Puerto Rican LGBT documentary ''Mala Mala''. In September 2018, they were a guest judge for an episode of the

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drag reality show "Versus Drag Queens". Carrión appeared in the music video for

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's "Banana Papaya" in November 2018. Carrión appeared in

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's performance at the

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Personal life

Carrión came out as being

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in 2016.

Filmography

Movies

Television

Music videos

References

External links

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