Aquaria is the
drag daughter of
Drag Race season four winner
Sharon Needles. However, after
accusations of abuse were made against Needles in 2020, Aquaria has said that she "does not support him" and "feels awful for anyone he has hurt". She began performing in drag in 2014. Like
RuPaul, Aquaria received early support from
Susanne Bartsch. In early 2018, it was announced that Aquaria was chosen as one of fourteen contestants for the
tenth season of ''
RuPaul's Drag Race'', upon her first audition for the program. She won three main challenges, never ranked in the bottom two, and was the first queen in the show's history to win both the
ball and the "
Snatch Game" in the same season. Aquaria was announced as the winner of the season on June 28, 2018, beating out
Eureka O'Hara and
Kameron Michaels in the final three. Aquaria was nominated with
Miz Cracker for the "Competition Contestant of 2018" for the 2018
People's Choice Awards. In October 2018, Aquaria appeared solo in an issue of
Vogue Italia, photographed by
Michael Bailey-Gates. She was a model for
Moschino and
H&M's November 2018 Capsule Collection with
Bria Vinaite and
Jeremy Scott. She received a contract from
IMG Models, and was announced as the Entertainment editor for
Dazed. In 2019, Aquaria was announced as one of the faces of
MAC's Viva Glam campaign. She attended the
2019 Met Gala, and was the first drag queen to walk the red carpet. In June 2019, a panel of judges from
New York magazine placed her 11th on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former
Drag Race contestants. In 2019, Aquaria released her very own makeup palette in collaboration with
NYX Cosmetics. In September 2019, at RuPaul's DragCon NYC, Aquaria was named as one of a rotating cast of a dozen
Drag Race queens in ''
RuPaul's Drag Race Live!'', a Las Vegas show residency from January to August 2020 at the
Flamingo Las Vegas. Aquaria performed as a part of
Rihanna's Savage X
Fenty Beauty Fashion Show during the Fall 2019
New York Fashion Week.
Music As part of the final challenge of season 10, Aquaria and the other top four contestants wrote and recorded their own verses for
RuPaul's song "
American." The song reached number 12 on the
Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart. Aquaria was featured in the song "Looks" by Linux in 2016. He released his debut single, "Burn Rubber", in June 2018. The song was written by
Jesse Saint John. ==Personal life==