Kanisha Sluis (born 12 August 1996) is a Dutch-Curaçaoan model and beauty pageant titleholder who crowned as Miss Curaçao 2015 and represented her country at the

Miss Universe 2015 Miss Universe 2015 was the 64th Miss Universe pageant, held at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on December 20, 2015. This was the first edition of the pageant to be held under the ownership of WME/IMG, which ...

pageant where she placed in the Top 10 and Top 20

Miss Grand International 2022 Miss Grand International 2022 was the 10th-anniversary edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, held on 25 October 2022 at Sentul International Convention Center in Bogor Regency of West Java province, Indonesia. The pageant featured ...

Pageantry

Miss Curaçao 2015

On 13 June 2015 Kanisha was crowned Miss Curaçao 2015 and was awarded the Miss Playa Award at the Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort, Curaçao. Seven contestants vied for the crown.

Miss Universe 2015

As Miss Curaçao 2015, Kanisha competed at the

pageant, where she made it to the Top 10 and placed 8th overall. In 1968 Curaçao's

Anne Marie Braafheid Anne Marie Braafheid from Curaçao became the first black woman to attain the position of first runner-up in the Miss Universe 1968 contest. A retired primary school teacher and fluent in five languages, she has been married since the 1970s, has on ...

became first runner-up at the Miss Universe pageant, making her the first black woman in the world to attain a similar position at a grand slam pageant. Furthermore, the island has placed in 1976 (top 12), 1991 (top 10), 1997 (top 6), 2015 (top 10: Kanisha Sluis), 2018 (top 10), 2020 (top 21) and 2022 (top 5).

Miss Grand International 2022

On August 18, 2022, the Curaçao Beauty Pageant Committee announced that Sluis will be the representative of

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...

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. She represented the country and placed in the Top 20.

References

External links

Official Miss Curaçao Organization website
Living people Miss Universe 2015 contestants 1996 births People from Delft {{Curaçao-bio-stub