Move over Bebe, there's a new Tribal Queen in town...
VinChelle
from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This won’t be the first crown that Philly drag queen
VinChelle has had her eyes on, as she was the winner of Mimi Imfurst’s Drag Wars in 2015 (her! Mimi Imfurst! I could not believe it) and 2017 Philadelphia Drag Queen of the Year. A seasoned club host, comedy queen, vocalist, dancer and “lip sync extraordinaire”, VinChelle describes herself as a mixture of Tyra Banks, Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Wendy Williams, Wanda Sykes, Whoopi Goldberg, and NeNe Leakes, so I can only assume that she’s incredibly rich. Despite taking inspiration from such larger-than-life divas, her fashion also often reflects her pride in her traditional African heritage and she nicknames herself the Tribal Queen, a side to her drag that she’s chosen to show off in her promo look. Originally from the African nation of… erm, Nashville, Tennessee, VinChelle, having changed her drag name from her original moniker of Shea Butter Werk, moved to The City of Brotherly Love with a theatre degree in order to pursue her dream of stardom. Will she make it big on the Drag Race stage?
The mug:
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The boy:
Here she is lip syncing to Fifth Harmony as Michelle Obama (who she cruelly left off that list of celebrities that she likens herself to):