When I say I am from Scarborough, I am from SCAR-BOR-OUGH.ĭid you ever have the temptation to move downtown to be closer to the drag scene? That’s what I do: Scarborough! I am in the centre of Scarborough. I am repping Scarborough! That’s where I live. On Canada’s Drag Race you’re repping Scarborough. This was in Toronto but I won’t mention the clubs because they’re still open!
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A face full of makeup and a cute outfit worked nice. That’s an elaborate way to sneak into a club. So at the tender age of 16, I was sneaking into clubs. That’s originally how it started because they didn’t card drag queens. I became a drag queen to sneak into the clubs. We caught up with Kimora Amour to chat about that weird-ass lip sync, why Carnival and drag are the same and her friendship with season 1 queen Anastarzia Anaquway. We need to be counted and it’s very important.” “Without the Black community, the gay community would not be here and we need that recognition. But we have a lot of growing to do within our own community,” she says. “The state of the world is a sad place, but the wonderful thing about drag is that it gives us a little bit of sunshine on our cloudy days for the LGBTQ community. She saw Canada’s Drag Race as a chance to grow her audience and use the platform to represent not only Carnival culture but talk about difficult issues, like the history of slavery in Canada, racism and colourism. So she is less known in the Toronto bar scene compared with other drag performers who have not been cast on the show yet.Īmour is a father to a teenage son, a neuropathic pain management procedural nurse and a Carnival costume maker who learned the trade from her Guyanese mother. Though she’s an experienced drag queen, she lives in Scarborough and competes on the pageant circuit. She was one of the show’s funniest commentators in the interview segments and a risk-taker on the runway. “Let me show you what I do.”Īlthough Amour says her reception from Canada’s Drag Race fans has been “mild,” she’s overall happy with the experience. “Coming off of a weird lip sync, I really want to show people that wasn’t me,” she says via Zoom the morning after. It might be safe to assume the Toronto Kiki Ballroom scene member, pageant circuit veteran and Carnival costume designer will not be adding Get Down to her repertoire when the season 2 cast hits the road on a tour in the New Year.
After this week’s episode, it was apparent Kimora Amour was done with Canada’s Drag Race.
You can very much see the thirst and fire in the eyes of contestants like Pythia, Kendall Gender, Icesis Couture and Gia Metric, all queens who are clearly hungry for the crown. And though it was clear Amour was not feeling it, you can’t say she phoned it in. The song was going to be a challenge for both queens to pull off. The cast and judging panel, including guest judge Emma Hunter, were visibly incredulous as Amour stalked Metric around the stage. Kimora Amour was the lone GTA queen left on season 2, but ended a memorable seven-episode run with one of the weirdest lip-syncs in Drag Race herstory.Īfter failing to deliver in a comedy roast of judge Brooke Lynn Hytes (which was very heavy on cosmetic surgery jokes) and getting read by the judges for an ill-fitting nude-illusion suit, Amour had to face off with Gia Metric to goopy hair-gelled Canadian boy band b4-4’s uncomfortably cheery ode to oral sex, Get Down. Scarborough has sashayed away from Canada’s Drag Race. Scarborough queen Kimora Amour paid homage to Deborah Cox as Josephine Baker on Canada's Drag Race.
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