Adore Delano

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    Former foes Taylor Swift and Katy Perry hug it out in 'You Need to Calm Down' video — and fans are freaking out

    The former friends have buried the hatchet, judging from Perry's shock cameo in Swift's latest music video.

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    'Drag Race' Star Adore Delano Talks Rainbow-Raging New Alt-Rock Sound

    Since making the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 (and historically quitting Drag Race All-Stars 2), Adore Delano has recorded pop with an R&B/EDM flair – almost more in line with the music she performed as Danny Noriega on American Idol in 2008 than with her modern-day “punk-rock mermaid” persona. “It’s a 100 percent alternative rock album, inspired by all the greats before I was on American Idol. Everything that inspired me when I was a little angry kid and when I was younger, during th

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    Festival Realness: The ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ All-Stars Make Their Rock Fest Debut at Beach Goth

    Only at Beach Goth — a dizzyingly diverse festival curated by Orange Country garage/surf/psych band the Growlers, and featuring everyone from Bon Iver and James Blake to Tricky, TSOL, and even TLC — would the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race fit right in. So it was there, on Saturday at the Observatory in Santa Ana, Calif., that Drag Race divas Adore Delano, Ginger Minj, Sharon Needles, and Alaska 5000 — all singing live — donned some day drag and made their proper, official rock festival debut.

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    Watch ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Stars Christen New L.A. Boutique With Live-Stream Music Showcase

    The grand opening of PEG: The Store takes place tonight, Thursday the 9th, in Downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District, with a live PEG Records musical showcase featuring some of your favorite RuPaul’s Drag Race stars. Season 6 top three finalist Adore Delano, Season 5 top three finalist Alaska 5000, Season 4 winner Sharon Needles, and Season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon will all be in attendance, singing (not lip-synching) for their lives. 

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    First Person: My ‘American Idol’ Experience, by Danny Noriega

    The 15th and final bittersweet season of American Idol is underway, and all season long, Yahoo Music’s Reality Rocks is inviting alumni from the series to share their stories.This week’s essay is by Adore Delano, a successful electropop recording artists and top three finalist from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6. While Adore’s Drag Race run was much more successful than Danny’s Idol attempt (Danny stalled in the top 16 week), both stints were incredibly memorable.