Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world\'s most famous drag queen.
About author(s): Nico Medina is the author of several Who HQ books, including What Was Stonewall?, Where Is Mount Everest ?, Where Is Alcatraz ?, Who Was Aretha Franklin? , and What Was the Ice Age?.
He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul\'s Drag Race , which has raised the profile of the art of drag, and drag queens around the world.
Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s.
When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back.
Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television.
RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer.
Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world\'s most famous drag queen
