Canada's Priyanka to Texas drag queens at SXSW: 'The root of drag has always been protest'
March 28, 2023
By Deborah Sengupta Stith
With gregarious charm and high-voltage star power, the Queen of the North and winner of Season 1 of "Canada's Drag Race," the northern outlet of RuPaul Charles' global drag franchise, was set to thrill the crowd with a hip-switching, whip-cracking set as the penultimate performer at the Dr. Martens Presents day party, an official South by Southwest Music Festival event.
Priyanka scored a hit last year after the breakup bop “Come Through,” from 2021 EP “Taste Test,” went viral. The song features Lemon, one of Priyanka’s “Canada's Drag Race” sisters, and it revolves around a shady character who betrayed the wrong queens.