MANILA, Philippines – During a premiere viewing party of RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars , Eva Le Queen was performing a lipsync of Six: The Musical ’s “No Way” to an electric crowd when the stage went black and the music stopped. “I have an announcement. Sumabog ‘yung [circuit] breaker (The circuit breaker broke).
So we will take a couple of minutes to fix it. It is what it is,” she told the crowd in Pasig City on Friday, August 16. When the lights returned, Eva yielded to the request of her fans to do her performance from the top.
This moment showed how Eva wants to be remembered as a drag artist. “For me, I want to solidify my name as a drag personality. I think what I’m good at is holding the mic and talking to people.
What I’m good at is really doing business of drag, mounting an event such as this,” she said in a press conference before the viewing party. Eva Le Queen performs at her premiere viewing party of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars’ in Pasig City on August 16, 2024. Russell Ku/Rappler Eva is among the 12 queens that was selected by RuPaul to participate in Global All Stars .
Though feeling pressure as the only Asian representative in the competition, the Drag Race Philippines season 1 finalist was confident as she was selected to participate in the first iteration of the new show. “I didn’t have to fight for my spot. I didn’t have to audition for it.
I was handpicked to do this,” she said. The Filipino drag queen s.