Sasha Colby is the queen of the Pink Pony Club.
Rising pop singer Chappell Roan took to her Instagram this weekend to pay homage to Sasha Colby, the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s 15th season, who recently appeared on the season 16 finale to pass her crown on to the winner of season 16, Nymphia Wind.
One Drag Race fan who loved Sasha’s finale outfit was Roan, who shared a screenshot of Sasha’s iconic look on her Instagram, along with a dedication to Colby.
“My favorite drag queen is @sashacolby,” the singer wrote. She also confirmed that something she said on the mic at her recent Coachella performance was inspired by Colby.
“Me saying I’m your favorite artist’s favorite artist at Coachella was a nod to her, how much I admire her, and how much drag is intertwined with my project” Roan said, explaining that she reworked Colby’s saying, “I’m your favorite drag queen’s favorite drag queen.”
Roan continued, “She is everythinggg 2 me.”
Colby won Drag Race as the cherry on top of a long and influential drag career that includes winning the prestigious drag pageant Miss Continental, in 2012. During her season of Drag Race, Colby dominated, winning four challenges and never landing at the bottom.
The “Red Wine Supernova” singer has been candid about how the character of Chappell Roan is a drag persona that was birthed from her love of dressing up. “I feel like another girl in the local drag competition. Like another girl on Drag Race,” she told NME.
She’s also done much to highlight drag culture at her shows. Her opening acts are often drag queens and she recently put out another call for local drag artists to open for her at upcoming performances.
“It's just a great way to engage the local queer community to that city,” she told People. "I encourage people to tip the queens, that's redistributing funds within the community there, and also it just gives a platform for the drag queens. Some of these queens have never performed in front of a crowd that big before, and it's just fun.”
Though pop singer Troye Sivan has known she’d be a star for some time, it took the rest of the world some time to catch up. Roan’s star has been rising since the release of her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. In March, she got her own NPR Tiny Desk concert, and one month later, she scored her first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry in April with her latest single, “Good Luck, Babe!” If all that wasn’t enough, she also opened for Grammy-winning pop singer Olivia Rodrigo on her GUTS Tour.
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