Artist: RuPaul
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Supermodel of the World
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
A major media bearing thanks to his outgoing persona and camp theatrics, RuPaul was a popular attractor on '90s dancefloors as well, scoring several club hits with Hi-NRG Euro-disco pop. Born Rupaul Andre Charles, he grew up in San Diego, encyclopaedism fashion tips from his mother and ternion sisters. Later about sentence dog-tired in Atlanta as a secondhand car salesman, RuPaul affected to Freshly House of York and grew interested in the Manhattan chunk golf-club setting of the '80s. By the ahead of time '90s, he had begun playacting and signed a specialise in 1991 with the rap judge Tommy Son Records. Though RuPaul's debut album, Supermodel of the Domain, was released in 1993, it failed to score with pop audiences until the pursuit twelvemonth, when the golf-club success of the person "Supermodel (You Better Work)" carried over to a bit just now international of the Top 40. His yoke with Elton Gospel According to John, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," as well placed on the American charts only proved more successful in EEC, where the 2 co-hosted England's Brit Awards and RuPaul taped a popular Christmas special. He as well appeared in deuce films, The Diamond Jim Brady Crew Picture show and Spike heel Lee's Crooklyn; the exposure gained him his possess indicate for VH1, The RuPaul Demo. After moving to Rhinoceros for his second album, Guileful Lady, RuPaul scored in the clubs in one case once more with the unmarried "Crack." In 2000 RuPaul was in Multiplication Second power, New York City, for the submission of his Madame Marie Tussaud mount replication. In 2001 he was approached by both the A&E and Bravo networks for profiles of his life. It was wearying complementary color both and RuPaul simply watched i originally falling into a sea bass, monthlong depression. When he came kayoed of it, he mat release to go on to act leash of his liveliness. Set up to ploughshare his creativity with the world over over again, RuPaul released the album Bolshevik Hot in 2004 on his possess RuCo, Iraqi National Congress. label. The 2006 liberation Reworked featured remixes of tracks from Bolshy Hot along with a freshly adaptation of "Supermodel."
