See Sasha Velour perform Friday, November 29, at the Moore Theatre. JEFF EASON
Sasha Velour wasn’t supposed to win her season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The bald, fashionable, Brooklyn-based drag queen with a Vassar education was a favorite on the reality TV competition’s ninth season, but the numbers were not on her side. When it came down to the finale, Sasha Velour—the stage name of Alexander “Sasha” Hedges Steinberg—had won two main challenges. Her principal competition, the Chicago-based drag queen Shea Couleé, had won four.
But drag isn’t a sport and Drag Race doesn’t come down to a scorecard. It comes down to a lip sync. And lip syncs, it turns out, are Sasha Velour’s secret weapon.
