The Virgo Queen joins Shea Coulée and Lemon in a trifecta of winners

10 April 2025. by Drew Rowsome - Photos courtesy of Mississauga Arts Centre

"Get into the glitz and glamour, the powerful energy," urges The Virgo Queen. "It's a trifecta of winners." Virgo is part of an all-star line-up coming to Mississauga's Living Arts Centre. Virgo was a Toronto-based drag queen paying her dues at "The Drink, Woody's, O'Grady's, every residency you can imagine. The Beaver, The Ossington, The Gladstone . . . I'm connected to Toronto, my roots don't forget where I come from. I always want to expand, to see where my career takes me. After winning Drag Race, it's inevitable I will expand." Virgo was crowned Canada's Next Drag Superstar in the finale of the fifth season of Canada's Drag Race. The Living Arts Centre gig is "super exciting" but Virgo doesn't betray any nerves, she's played large venues before, The Rogers Centre for an NBA halftime show being the largest. "I was grateful for the platform," deadpans Virgo. "It's all about the eyeballs."

And eyeballs will be dazzled by the line-up Virgo is part of. "Lemon has always been very sweet to me," says Virgo. "She's a Virgo as well, I love her. She trained as a dancer in New York. She's a talented recording artist and may do some original material." Lemon was a fan favourite contestant on the first season of Canada's Drag Race. She then competed on the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World before handily winning the second season of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World. In comparison, Virgo says her drag career is going well however "If I was invited to All Stars, I wouldn't be able to say." 

Headlining the evening is Shea Coulée who is a legend. Details of her act are also top secret but with her track record — placing third/fourth in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, winning All Stars 5, placing third/fourth in All Stars 7, touring Werq the World around the world with Bianca Del Rio and Michelle Visage, touring her own one-woman show Coulée with a C, campaigning with Elizabeth Warren, releasing music videos and a self-directed film Lipstick City, more world tours with Drag Race alumni, and an upcoming role in a Marvel film to list just a few —she will have no shortage of material or starpower. Virgo is coy about just what the show will entail though "I usually do a variety of impersonations and covers. I will be doing a singing moment as well as a dancing moment. I can't give away too much but expect live singing." 

A teenage pre-The Virgo Queen competed as a vocalist on the sixth season of YTV's The Next Star and was a finalist. "There was a choice at one point," says Virgo, "my music career or my new journey in drag." Then Canada's Drag Race happened and "Where will I go next?" Live vocals are something Virgo would not recommend for most queens, but her training in musical theatre and vocals put her in good stead. "I can't play the accordion so I wouldn't go on stage and play one. Though that would be fun." She'll also be sticking to pop music, "I don't gravitate towards Broadway though we do do musical theatre in this household." Virgo slightly disappoints when she says that she won't be doing her iconic Beyoncé impersonation, but there will be "a reveal and a load of costume changes." And, "We have some surprises." Just what one would expect from a trifecta of winners.