He won the title of "Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses" and a prize of $50,000. In April 2022, Raja was announced as one of the eight returning winners that would be competing in seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, the first ever all-winners season of Drag Race. In 2014 Raja joined the Drag Race Battle of the Seasons tour where he performed a lip-sync duet with Manila Luzon to the Babymetal song " Gimme Chocolate!!" Raja is the first and only Asian American winner of RuPaul's Drag Race. and Canada on Logo's Drag Race Tour in 2011. As part of his duties as the third-season winner of Drag Race, Amrullah toured the U.S. In the final episode, after a lip-sync battle with Manila Luzon, Raja was declared the winner of the show's third season and crowned America's Next Drag Superstar. He was a member of the "Heathers" clique, which took its name from the popular cult film Heathers. He was a contestant on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race as Raja. Raja at his RuPaul's DragCon LA booth in 2022 Īmrullah attended California State University, Fullerton as an art student, focusing on art direction and illustration, for two years, then decided to pursue a career in makeup artistry and female impersonation. The first few years of his drag career in the early '90s were spent as a club kid named Crayola. He was part of a sector of drag that was inspired by the goth and punk subcultures. When Amrullah was sixteen, Amrullah got into the drag scene by attending L.A. At the age of three, his family moved to the island of Bali in Indonesia, his parents' native country, where he stayed for six years before returning to the U.S. His late father, Abdul Wadud Karim Amrullah, was the younger brother of Indonesian ʿālim and philosopher Hamka. Īmrullah was born in Baldwin Park, California. He currently co-hosts the podcast Very That, alongside Delta Work.
appearances, and Lambert's international 2010 Glam Nation Tour. Since 2009, Amrullah has been make-up artist to singer Adam Lambert for print media, live U.S. Amrullah's clients include Tyra Banks, Dita von Teese, Pamela Anderson, Paulina Porizkova, Iman, Iggy Azalea, RuPaul, and Twiggy. Outside of drag, Amrullah is also known for his makeup artistry on the reality television show America's Next Top Model (cycles four through twelve). He later returned to compete on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, an all-winners season. He is best known for winning the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race and remains the only Asian American to win the show. Sutan Ibrahim Karim Amrullah (born June 14, 1974), often shortened to Sutan Amrull, is an American drag performer and make-up artist who also uses the stage name Raja Gemini or simply Raja.
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