Sasha Velour

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Sasha Velour
Biographical Information
Drag Name	Sasha Velour
Gender	Genderfluid/Genderqueer
Pronouns	She/Her (In Drag) She/Her, They/Them (Out of Drag)
Ethnicity	Ukrainian-Jewish American
Height	5′9″ (1.75 m)[citation needed]
Date of Birth	June 25, 1987[citation needed]
Age	37
Birthplace	Berkeley, CA, USA[citation needed]
Hometown	New Haven, CT, USA[citation needed] Urbana, IL, USA[citation needed]
Location	Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Season Information
Season	Season 9
Place	Winner
Eliminated	N/A
Sent home by	N/A
Challenge Wins	2

Sasha Velour is an American drag performer, performer, visual artist, and hostess of Brooklyn "NightGowns" show, as well as the Season 9 winner of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Along with hosting and creating "NightGowns", which has since been developed into a docuseries on Quibi, Sasha has also ventured into her own solo theatrical tour titled, "Smoke & Mirrors." Sasha has also released her own book, The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag. In 2024, Sasha, alongside Drag Race alums Jaida Essence Hall, Priyanka, and Latrice Royale, is slated to host Season 4 of the HBO series We're Here.

Drag Name Origin

Sasha's parents named her after Alexandra Kollontai, a Russian feminist leader, and Alexander Herzen, a Russian philosopher, but for most of her life, she’s gone by Sasha: a common Russian nickname for either Alexander or Alexandra. "Velour" comes from a fabric often used as a cheaper substitute for velvet, which Sasha thinks is the perfect metaphor for drag.

Track Records

Statistics	USA Season 9
Ranking:	1st Place (Winner)
Maxi Challenges Won:	2 (Eps. 4, 9)
Mini Challenges Won:	1 (Ep. 11)
Times as Team Captain:	0
Times in Bottom:	0
Episode Eliminated:	N/A

Memorable Quotes

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9

• "(loud, acted scream followed by fake coughing and posing)" (entrance quote)
• "Don't joke about that." (to Eureka)
• "Jaymes Mansfield looks scared and confused when she walks in. Like, 'am I in the right room?'"
• "This is 'RuPaul's Best Group Therapy Race'."
• "I've taken a classic silhouette and updated it with a commitment to showing women who are strong." (Sasha on her White Party look)
• "Thank you so much for having me, RuPaul, on your 'Drag Race.'" (as Marlene Dietrich in Snatch Game)
• "I promise that teutonic bisexuals make the most forceful and unforgettable lovers." (as Marlene Dietrich in Snatch Game)
• "Well, I found this question very unfair because, as you know, I don't know these things, I rarely leave my house, and I died many decades ago." (as Marlene Dietrich in Snatch Game)
• "Thank you, JonBenét Ramsey." (to Farrah Moan)
• During the Roast of Michelle Visage:
  • "Thank you Shea Couleé, that was extremely edifying humor. Sorry, am I using that word correctly? Oh, not edifying, I know that one, it was humor that I'm not sure worked in this context." (after Shea Couleé's set)
  • "We have an out and proud lesbian comedian... thank you so much, Ross Mathews."
  • "Ross Mathews has the face of a young gay man and a voice of an adult woman. So... the opposite of Tamar Braxton."
  • "Michelle is so Jersey, her idea of classical music is Lisa Lisa."
  • "I have more of these."
  • "Michelle is so Jersey, she calls her pubic hairs 'The Garden State Expressway'. And don't even get me started on the 'Holland Tunnels'..."
  • "Oh well, that one worked in my mind."
• "You now have lice."
• "Mommy is taking you to church for the first time?"
• "Wearing white after International Day of Labor? If you were my mother's daughter, she would drown you in river!"
• "How else can I make myself look like strong woman?"
• "Please don't jump!"
• "I like fisting, glory holes, horse play...That's where you have sex with Nina Bo'nina Brown! Couch play...That's where you have sex with Nina Bo'nina Brown's padding!" (During the Everybody Loves Puppets mini-challenge)
• "Bright eyed and bushy-browed! Be the strange you wish to see in the world! Sasha Velour relies on brains, beauty be damned, let monsters reign. If you wanna join the revolution, innovate, that's my solution! Wear a crown, fuck with gender, bend the rules, don't surrender. A thinking queen speaks to heart, she's stranger than fiction, better than art. I'm, I'm more true than real, I'm a magical bitch, darling that's how I feel!" (verse in Category Is)

Trivia

• Sasha is known in the drag scene for using audiovisual equipment for her performances.
• Her Hometown Look for Season 9, episode 1 was a "tribute to Queer NY Art" inspired by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
• Sasha is of Ukranian-Jewish descent an did her Fulbright Scholarship in Russia.
• Velour was the director of a magazine entitled "Velour: The Drag Magazine" that ran from 2015 to 2018.
• Her bald looks are done in tribute to her late mother, who lost her hair during cancer treatment.
• Sasha has a Italian greyhound dog named Vanya (short for Ivan The Terrible).
• She is allergic to cats.
• Sasha is the 8th contestant to make it to the finale without ever placing in the bottom two.
• She is the mother of the drag family "House of Velour". Members include Sasha's boyfriend Johnny Velour and drag kings Vigor Mortis, Mr. Lee VaLone, and Dandy Velour.
  • On April 24, 2024, she inducted Drag Race Philippines season 1 contestant Brigiding into her drag family.
• Sasha won "Drag Queen of The Year" and "Best Visual Artist" at the 5th Annual Brooklyn Nightlife Awards in 2017. Additionally, House of Velour won "Event Producer of the Year".
• She had previously posted on her Instagram account that she had thrown out the dress she wore on the runway for the "Draggily Ever After" challenge in episode 3. But, in the first episode of the Logo series "Out of The Closet", she revealed she's kept the dress for sentimental reasons.
• Sasha is the first winner not to have won the most challenges on her season. She was succeeded by Trixie Mattel, Monét X Change, Yvie Oddly, Jaida Essence Hall, Shea Coulee, Priyanka, and Lawrence Chaney.
• Sasha is the only winner to have won the 'Everybody Loves Puppets' mini-challenge in the same season (though two other winners of the mini-challenge, Chad Michaels and Alaska, later went on to win their respective All Stars seasons).
• Sasha is the fourth winner to never place in the bottom two, along with Tyra Sanchez, Bianca Del Rio and Violet Chachki. She was followed by Aquaria, Envy Peru, and Nymphia Wind.
  • Unlike all of them, she only won two main challenges.
• Sasha is the second winner to not win her first main challenge within the first three weeks of the competition, winning for the first time during week 4 (ep. 4). The first was Jinkx Monsoon, who won her first main challenge on week 5 (ep. 5), and the third was Aquaria, who won her first main challenge on week 4 (ep. 4).
• Sasha is the first main series winner to never win a solo challenge. She has been succeeded by Yvie Oddly on Season 11.
  • Sasha and Shea Couleé are the first contestants to have shared all of their wins with the same contestant (each other).
• Sasha is the third regular season winner to have never won the Design or Ball Challenge after Jinkx on Season 5 and Bob on Season 8.
• Sasha hosts a show called "NightGowns" in New York. She has a docuseries on Quibi about the show.
• As of Season 16, Sasha is the only winner of a US season whose crown was made by Shandar rather than Fierce Drag Jewels.
• Sasha is the first winner to place below safe in an acting challenge.
• Sasha would be open to returning to an 'All Winners' All Stars season.
• Sasha's mother was a German language teacher. Sasha is also able to speak German.
  • In virtue of this, Sasha was a guest judge on Drag Race Germany Season 1.

Gallery

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9

Mini Promo

Mini Trailer

Sexy Selfie with Pit Crew

#TeamSasha Promo

#TeamSasha Banner

Miss Congeniality Candidate Promo

Winner Congratulatory Post

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 Looks

Promo Look

Premiere Look

Confessional Look

Entrance Look

Hometown Look

Gaga Look

White Party Look

Princess Fantasy Look

Naughty Nighty Look

Faux Fur Look

Snatch Game Look – Marlene Dietrich

Night of 1,000 Madonnas: Part 2 Look

Big Hair Look

Michelle Visage Roast Look

Club Kid Look

Crew Makeover Look – Duncan

Rainbow Look

Sexy Unicorn Look

Village People Look

Category Is Look

Best Drag Look

Reunion Look

Grand Finale Look

LSFTC Round 1 Look

LSFTC Round 2 Look

Red Carpet Look

Red Carpet Look (with Crown)

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Looks

Cast Ruveal Look

Finale Look

Successor Crowning Look

Drag Race Germany Season 1

Drag Race Germany Season 1 Looks

SashaVelourDRGE1GuestJudgeLook.jpg

Guest Judge Look

Videos

Sasha Velour Runway Looks

Top 4 Sasha Velour

Sasha Velour vs Shea Couleé — Season 9 Finale

Peppermint vs Sasha Velour — Season 9 Finale

Sasha Velour Out Of The Closet

Discography

Singles

• "C.L.A.T." (2017) by Aja, Alexis Michelle, Peppermint & Sasha Velour ft. DJ Mitch Ferrino

Appearances

• "Category Is... (Season 9 Remix)" by RuPaul ft. Peppermint, Sasha Velour, Trinity The Tuck & Shea Couleé

External Links

• Apple Music
• Facebook
• Instagram
• X
• YouTube
• Website (Sasha Velour) | WebSite (Smoke & Mirrors)
• Wikipedia