Sasha Colby has revealed how Chappell Roan turned her daughter (Getty Pictures)
RuPaul’s Drag Race champion and MTV VMAs presenter Sasha Colby has defined precisely how pop icon Chappell Roan turned an ‘honorary Colby’.
The winner of Drag Race season 15 was presenting on the 2024 MTV Music Video Awards when she launched the “Good Luck, Babe!” singer to the stage as “Your favorite drag queen’s favorite artist, my daughter, Chappell Roan!”
Chappell had beforehand paid tribute to Sasha Colby’s trademark phrase, “Your favorite drag queen’s favorite drag queen,” by calling herself, “Your favorite artist’s favorite artist,” and the pair carried out collectively in July for the primary time.
Talking completely to PinkNews, Sasha explains precisely how the “clandestine” efficiency happened, and the way Chappell Roan acquired so as to add a ‘Colby’ to her title by changing into the previous Miss Continental‘s daughter.
“I made her daughter after we met!” Sasha reveals, referencing their July efficiency on the Capitol Hill Block Occasion. “I made her an honorary Colby, and she or he was so glad.”
“She was like: ‘I’d like to be a Colby,’ and I used to be like: ‘You give Colby vitality, for certain.’”
The drag goddess additionally provides that her onstage jaunt wasn’t precisely deliberate, revealing: “We had been like simply going to go meet her and watch the present. And at the back of my head, I’m like, ‘I’m a drag queen. I’m occurring stage.’ And he or she invited me on! She was so nice.”
Sasha additionally pays tribute to Chappell’s expertise and “authenticity” amidst a meteoric rise to fame.
“To know that she’s this singer-songwriter, whose vulnerability and superb voice, and expertise, I’ve cherished for years… not having to evolve to what the music trade says, that’s the most superb factor,” she says.
“Watching her stick with her weapons and be like; ‘No, I’m going to authentically be myself, and I’m not going to be nervous about file gross sales of if individuals like me,’ that authenticity is the factor that pulls individuals to you.”
Sasha Colby has many offspring, together with season 14’s Kerri Colby – and a secret member of the dynasty from the set of Drag Race.
Chappell Roan picked up the Finest New Artist VMA on the 2024 ceremony, shouting out the “queer and trans folks that gasoline pop”, in her acceptance speech.