Icesis Couture is the stage name of Steven Granados-Portelance (born February 3, 1987),

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.

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, February 13, 2019. a Canadian

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who won the second season of ''

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'' in 2021. She later returned to compete on the first season of the spin-off series, '' Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World'', in 2022.

Career

Granados-Portelance appeared as Icesis Couture on the second season of the documentary series '' Canada's a Drag'' in 2019, and won Ottawa's Miss Capital Pride pageant in 2020. In 2021, he competed in the second season of ''

'', winning two challenges over the course of the season and ultimately winning the competition over finalists

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and Kendall Gender. On the night of the ''Canada's Drag Race'' finale, all three finalists were at a viewing party at Toronto's

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, on a bill that also included Icesis's drag daughters Kimmy and Savannah Couture, as well as Makayla Walker Couture, an emerging Toronto drag artist who had appeared in the prom makeover episode as Couture's drag daughter "Ruby Couture".Russ Martin
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'', December 17, 2021. On the same day, Couture released "La Pusetta", a bilingual English and Spanish pop single and music video created in collaboration with DJ and producer Velvet Code under the music label ''

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''. In 2021, Couture modelled the

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, described as "a voluminous multicoloured gown that embodies a powerful statement about the global persecution of LGBTQ people", at Ottawa's

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. In 2022, Couture returned to compete on Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World against other former competitors from across the Drag Race franchise, including fellow

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alumni Kendall Gender and

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. She placed in the Top 2 in episode 2 for her impersonation of Donatella Versace in the Snatch Game and was never up for elimination throughout her run. However, in episode 4, she decided to withdraw from the competition citing her mental health, ultimately placing 6th. In 2023 Couture participated, alongside fellow ''CDR'' alumni

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and

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, in Courage Across Canada, a speaking tour in which the ''CDR'' queens spoke to high school students about bullying and homophobia.

Personal life

Granados-Portelance is of

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and

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descent, and lives in

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, Ontario. His younger brother Randy is also a drag queen, who performs under the name Savannah Couture. He is a close friend of Kiki Coe, a drag performer who was contemporaneously a competitor in the first season of the drag competition series ''

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'' and later became a competitor in the fourth season of ''Canada's Drag Race''. Granados-Portelance is also the drag mother of Kimmy Couture, a contestant on the third season of ''Canada's Drag Race'', and Makayla Couture, a contestant on the second season of ''Call Me Mother'' who Granados-Portelance put into drag for the makeover challenge of ''Canada's Drag Race'' season two.

Filmography

Web series

Discography

Singles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Couture, Icesis 1987 births Living people 21st-century Canadian LGBT people Canada's Drag Race winners Canadian drag queens Canadian people of Salvadoran descent Franco-Ontarian people People from Ottawa