In the early 1990s, RuPaul worked the Georgia club scene and was known by his full birth name.

In the ' 90s, RuPaul was known in the UK for his appearances on the Channel 4 series Manhattan Cable, a weekly series produced by World of Wonder and presented by American Laurie Pike about New York's wild and wacky public-access television system.

It was around this time that RuPaul co-hosted the BRIT Awards in London, also with Elton John.

RuPaul was signed to a modeling contract for MAC Cosmetics, making him the first drag queen supermodel.

) However, possibly the most famous drag artist in music in the 90s was RuPaul.

The album was tied-in to a television Christmas special from The RuPaul Show on VH1.

Before the release of the album RuPaul was known primarily for being the only drag queen supermodel ( hence the album title ).

The video for the song was put into heavy rotation on MTV ; this was a huge surprise to RuPaul and her record label as, at the time, the music being heavily played on MTV was grunge, gangsta rap, and rock.

Under Polsky's direction, the club became renowned as one of centers of new wave music in New York and was frequented by many musicians and artists who became famous during the decade, such as Madonna, New Order, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Sade, Wham !, The Smiths, Squeeze, Cyndi Lauper, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Run-DMC, Depeche Mode, Butthole Surfers, The B-52's, Samhain, Bauhaus, RuPaul, Berlin, Romeo Void, Sonic Youth, Swans, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cult, Violent Femmes, Soft Cell, The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Beastie Boys, and LL Cool J.

It was covered by Martha Wash ( of The Weather Girls ) as a duet with RuPaul in 1997, Geri Halliwell in 2001 and by Young Divas in 2006.

* Drag Icon RuPaul covered " Physical " on " The Rupaul " Show When Olivia Newton-John was a guest.

With a cast that included Superstar RuPaul, DJ Larry Tee, Lahoma Van Zant, Lady Bunny, Michael Musto, artist Albert Crudo and a bevy of other colorful characters making cameo appearances, it was the epi-center of a creative revolution.

The club became a hangout for “ a new breed of politicized drag performers ” like Lypsinka, Lady Bunny, and RuPaul, whose first New York City show was at the Pyramid Club in 1982.

RuPaul Andre Charles ( born November 17, 1960 ), best known as simply RuPaul, is an American actor, drag queen, model, author, and recording artist, who first became widely known in the 1990s when he appeared in a wide variety of television programs, films, and musical albums.

* Michelle Visage ( born 1970 ), singer, TV / radio host and RuPaul sidekick.

RuPaul has on occasion performed as a man in a number of roles, usually billed as RuPaul Charles.

RuPaul is noted among famous drag queens for his indifference towards the gender-specific pronouns used to address him — both " he " and " she " have been deemed acceptable.

RuPaul struggled as a musician and filmmaker in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1980s.

In Atlanta, RuPaul often performed at the Celebrity Club ( managed by Larry Tee ) as a bar dancer or with his band, Wee Wee Pole, which included the late Todd Butler.

Initially participating in genderfuck-style performances, RuPaul performed solo and in collaboration with other bands at several New York nightclubs, most notably the Pyramid Club.

In 1993, RuPaul recorded dance / house albums which included Supermodel of the World.

RuPaul caused a controversy at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards when he presented an award with actor Milton Berle, who performed an altogether different type of drag early in his career.

The two had conflicts back-stage, and when Berle touched RuPaul's false breasts, RuPaul ad-libbed the line " So you used to wear gowns, but now you're wearing diapers.

" The press portrayed the exchange as a crack in the " love everyone " message RuPaul presented, and as a young newcomer treating a legend poorly.

RuPaul would later describe the situation in his autobiography, describing Berle's behavior backstage as sexually inappropriate and rude.

RuPaul ( left ) seen out of drag in March 2009.

The next year he landed a talk show of his own on VH1, called The RuPaul Show, interviewing celebrity guests and musical acts.

On one episode, RuPaul featured guests Chi Chi LaRue and Tom Chase speaking about the gay porn industry.

Because of his strong fan base within the gay community, RuPaul has performed at gay pride events and numerous gay clubs.

During this time RuPaul helped launch the return of WKTU radio in New York City and would serve as host ( with Michelle Visage ) of the morning show until 1998.

In 2004, RuPaul released his fourth album, Red Hot on his own RuCo Inc. label.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.