Megami (drag queen)

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Megami
Born
Jonathan Soto-Reyes

(1989-04-21) April 21, 1989 (age 35)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Other namesMegami D.Vil
Occupation Drag queen
Television RuPaul's Drag Race (season 16)

Megami, also known as Megami D.Vil, is the stage name of Jonathan Soto-Reyes [1] [2] (born April 21, 1989), [3] [4] an American drag queen and cosplayer [5] best known for competing on season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race . She was born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Staten Island, [6] and is currently based in Brooklyn. [7]

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Career

Megami began performing in drag in 2016 when she won the cosplay lip-sync show GeekSync in New York. Her drag name is inspired both by the Japanese word for goddess and by the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga . [4]

RuPaul's Drag Race

Megami was cast on the sixteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race , having applied to compete on the show five times. [8] Megami first appeared in the season's second episode which premiered on January 12, 2024. Her talent show performance in this episode, in which she held up a banner stating "Protect Queer Art", subsequently became a meme in the Drag Race community; it was the subject of a parody by The Boulet Brothers' Dragula contestant Meatball at her Fat Slut drag show. [9]

Megami won her first challenge in the fifth episode of the season as part of a girl group with Geneva Karr, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Nymphia Wind. [10] Megami was eliminated in the seventh episode after underperforming in the season's Rusical challenge, a parody of The Sound of Music , and losing a lip-sync to Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" against Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige. [11] She placed tenth overall.

Megami returned in the fifteenth episode to compete in a lip sync tournament where she beat three previously eliminated contestants: Q to "What About" by Janet Jackson; Amanda Tori Meating to "The Shoop Shoop Song" by Cher; and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige to "We Got the Beat" by the Go-Go's. She made it to the final round, where she ended up losing against Morphine Love Dion to "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory. [12]

Filmography

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