RuPaul Andre Charles (natural November 17, 1960) is best known as an African-American drag performer, but he is likewise an accomplished singer, actor and writer.

RuPaul was innate inside San Diego, California. When many years as a drag performing artist inside Atlanta in the 1980s, RuPaul came into a spotlight in the early 1990s in New York City. He became the fixture on the gay scene, often bullyrag the shopping cart outside of dance clubs to distribute flyers. He participated within underground cinema, filming many moo budget pictures known as "Starbooty" (& an album by the same title). He so began performing under a title RuPaul Charles & late just RuPaul. At first participating around what is known as "genderfucking", he performed with elastic & solo at New York nightclubs, most notably a Pyramid Club. RuPaul likewise appeared numerous years at a annual Wigstock festival around the 1980s & Nineties, & appears in "Wigstock The Movie," the documentary. (He returned to the Wigstock stage inside 2004). He manufactured numbers of illustrious friends & possibly appeared in the music streaming video for The B-52's video "Love Shack". RuPaul late recorded the renewed version of Elton John's 70's hit lone "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" & filmed the voguish streaming video alongside John.

One of RuPaul's best known quotes is "We all came into this world naked; the rest of it is all drag." (A quote doesn't originate by owning RuPaul nevertheless; it may be traced back at least when far when to the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.) He also famously said, "I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven-inch heels, four-foot wigs, and skintight dresses?"

He hwhen done acting & modeling around two female & male personwhen (as evidenced inside his biographic info besides as pic in his site). Unlike virtually all drag queens, world health organization keep around a male title & a female title, & so require to have the appropriate gender-specific pronoun used for even each, RuPaul seems to become comfortable by having either "he" or "she".

At length he was signed to the modeling contract for MAC cosmetics, making him the 1st transvestite supermodel. He began releasing pop albums starting with Supermodel of the World which spawned the #1 dance hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)". Inside 1996, he landed a chat show in VH1, appropriately known as The RuPaul Show where he interviewed celebrity guests and musical acts. Because his fanbase largely consisted of the gay community, he mostly performed at gay pride events and gay venues. He freed the Christmas album entitled Ho, Ho, Ho and has had guest appearances within numbers of films including each Brady Bunch movies, in which he played Jan's female counsel counselor.

RuPaul was nominated for an Emmy award when he appeared as a male, alongside Linda Hamilton in the made-for-TV Moving-picture show ''A Mother's Prayer. In the late 1990s he freed his autobiography, Lettin' It All Hang Out''. Around 1997, he teamed by owning Martha Wash to re-do a classic gay anthem, "It's Raining Men". Fallowing his short stint when a VH1 talk indicate hikers , he about faded into proportional obscurity, ingesting bit roles (typically as himself) around film & television.

Inside 2004 RuPaul released his third album, Red Hot. It received a bit of dance radio & club play. It received super little click coverage, notwithstanding, & he discussed in his web log a fact that he felt betrayed per show biz, particularly a gay click. Inside of these incident he noted that a magazine Entertainment Weekly refused to review the album, however instead asked him to produce the comedic contribution to a fashion critique. He compared this to "a black person being invited to a party but only if they'll serve."

Up to now, his music career remains virtually all noted for his 1992 smash hit, "Supermodel (You Better Work)". Bizarrely, he was nominated for the Grammy award for best comedy recording for his track "Strudelmodel," which was the spoof on his own hit. It appeared as a B-side to the lone "Back to My Roots" & featured him affecting a German accent & altering the theme accordingly: "Once upon a time there was a little black girl in the Brewster Projects of Hamburg, Germany..."

Inside August 2005 the series of troika RuPaul dolls was freed.

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Discography
Starbooty (1986) Supermodel of the World (1993) Foxy Lady (1996) Ho, Ho, Ho (1997) Red Hot (2004)

Singles

Supermodel (You Better Work) Back to My Roots House of Love A Shade Shady (Now Prance) House of Love A Little Bit of Love Looking Good, Feeling Gorgeous Workout

Bibliography

''Lettin' it All Hang Out''

Filmography
Michael Lucas' Dangerous Liaisons (2005)
Who is Cletis Tout? (2001)
For the Love or May (2000)
The Truth About Jane (2000)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in the World (2000)
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Edtv (1999)
An Unexpected Life (1998)
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
Fled (1996)
A Mother’s Prayer (1995)
Red Ribbon Blues (1995)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Wigstock: The Movie (1995)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Crooklyn (1994)
RuPaul Is: Starbooty! (1987)