RuPaul Interview (September 7, 1995)

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  • Rupaul Andre Charles[1][2] (born November 17, 1960; stylized as RuPaul), is an American drag queen, television judge, musician, and model. Best known for producing, hosting, and judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, he[a] has received several accolades, including 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and a Tony Award.
    Born and raised in San Diego, California, RuPaul later studied performing arts in Atlanta, Georgia. He settled in New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBT nightclub scene. He achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his debut single, "Supermodel (You Better Work)", which was included on his debut studio album Supermodel of the World (1993). He became a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics in 1994, raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund and becoming the first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign. He later received his own talk show on VH1 called The RuPaul Show, which he hosted for over 100 episodes while co-hosting the morning radio show on WKTU with Michelle Visage.
    RuPaul's Drag Race was created in 2009 and has gone on to produce fourteen seasons in the United States. The show has also seen success internationally, with several international variants of the show being made, such as RuPaul's Drag Race UK and Canada's Drag Race. This has also inspired several spin-offs of the main show, including RuPaul's Drag U, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race. He is also featured as a host on other reality television series such as Skin Wars, Good Work, and Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul.
    RuPaul has made appearances in films such as Crooklyn (1994), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), television shows such as Girlboss (2017), Broad City (2017), and Grace and Frankie (2019). He later created and starred in his own Netflix original television series AJ and the Queen (2020). In addition, he has also published three books: Lettin' It All Hang Out (1995), Workin' It! RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style (2010), and GuRu (2018).
    RuPaul is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune noting him as "easily the world's most famous drag queen."[4] For his work on RuPaul's Drag Race, he has received 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the most-awarded person of color in the history of the Primetime Emmys.[5] In 2017, he was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.[6] Outside of film and television, he also continues to write and record music; he has released fourteen studio albums as of 2022, and received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.[7]

Komentáře • 23

  • @1bwash
    @1bwash Před 10 měsíci +67

    The children do not give Ru enough credit for being an absolute pioneer.

    • @frozenwarning
      @frozenwarning Před měsícem +2

      No they don’t. They weren’t around.

  • @KosOrSomeSayKosmo
    @KosOrSomeSayKosmo Před 9 měsíci +30

    The way Ru worked, worked, WERQED in the 90s is unbelievable.

  • @IAMASELENATOR92
    @IAMASELENATOR92 Před rokem +43

    A star since the beginning

  • @trevorbayers2175
    @trevorbayers2175 Před 10 měsíci +25

    One of the best and most important human beings ever born on this Earth.

  • @bruh666
    @bruh666 Před 4 měsíci +8

    I love this interviewer she is genuinely so invested

  • @nomi.hagen.
    @nomi.hagen. Před rokem +27

    What a fun interview. Love the chemistry.

  • @IAMASELENATOR92
    @IAMASELENATOR92 Před rokem +19

    MAC Cosmetics for the win

  • @Juicychavez_xo
    @Juicychavez_xo Před 11 měsíci +8

    Such a great interviewer

  • @ad8554
    @ad8554 Před 10 měsíci +4

    From 85 to 95 wow what a transformation if a character

  • @MOONSIP2
    @MOONSIP2 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Legend.

  • @denise7646
    @denise7646 Před 3 měsíci

    That needs to be set in stone..."We're all in drag..... "- RuPaul

  • @tyroneonphone
    @tyroneonphone Před 3 měsíci +3

    I know Ru identifies as a man, but gosh it's weird to me to hear any fully glammed Queen referred to as "he"

  • @darkskinss
    @darkskinss Před 20 dny

    Rupaul was naturally passable as a trans diva. If he had transitioned, he would have been OVAH.

  • @realbigbite
    @realbigbite Před rokem +21

    MOTHER no matter who says what

    • @makiiKu
      @makiiKu Před 10 měsíci +2

      Yes! Iconic forever❤

  • @TransVangal
    @TransVangal Před 2 měsíci

    🌈❤️#HappyprideMonth ❤🌈

  • @tonyausten2168
    @tonyausten2168 Před 5 měsíci

    The reporter maneuvering the reality before her. Poor her

  • @MasonThomas_yt
    @MasonThomas_yt Před 10 měsíci +1

    sky atticah devenport

  • @PITOFLANNN
    @PITOFLANNN Před 5 měsíci

    GOT ALOT TO LEARN FROM MOMMA!

  • @stripesz.6650
    @stripesz.6650 Před 4 měsíci +1

    10:41 This tells me Sapphira Cristál will win season 16

  • @garychambers5850
    @garychambers5850 Před měsícem

    Rupal makes a better woman than a man! 🌼🌼😅😅