Who is RuPaul?
Narrator: Vikas Adam
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grades 3-7
Ages: 8-12 years
Release Date: May 11, 2021
1 Hours and 2 Minutes
List Price: $22
ISBN: 9780593397398
Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - LGBTQ+, Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts, Juvenile Nonfiction - Performing Arts - Television & Radio
Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world's most famous drag queen.
RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul's Drag Race, which has raised the profile of the art of drag, and drag queens around the world.
RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul's Drag Race, which has raised the profile of the art of drag, and drag queens around the world.