Tamara Mascara

Tamara Mascara (born November 15, 1987) is an Austrian DJane, fashion designer, presenter and one of the best known Austrian drag queens.

Tamara Mascara
Tamara Mascara at Dancing Stars in 2020
Born (1987-11-15) November 15, 1987
Vienna, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Occupation
Websitewww.tamaramascara.com

Early life

Tamara Mascara grew up in Vienna, Austria. At an early age she took ballet training at the Vienna State Opera. Later she graduated from a fashion school at the Schloss Hetzendorf.[1]

Career

Her career as a DJane started at the legendary Heaven Vienna, the longest running House music clubbing in Vienna. Since 2011 she is co-founder, co-organizer and artistic director for The Circus, the biggest LGBT-party in Austria.[1][2]

At the 59. Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen Mascara was the Make-up artist in the team of Conchita Wurst, which won the competition. She also was part of the Austrian postcard, a recording that presents each country before their performances.[3]

Beginning in the end of 2016, Mascara started an YouTube channel, themed mostly around Cosmetics and Drag. In 2018 she launched her own eyelash collection.

As a testimonial for an open and LGBT-friendly Vienna she often cooperates with the Vienna Tourist Board, and visits cities and Christopher Street Days around the world, like in Tokio[4] or Rome.[5]

For the Austrian edition of Sprite's Stay Fresh commercial, an international campaign against mobbing and hate on the Internet, is Mascara head-testimonial. The company supports the Austrian telephone counselling for children (Rat auf Draht) and other social projects.[6]

2018 she played Madame Oh in Mara Mattuschka's queer drama Phaidros.

Mascara hosts different events, like Balls, LGBT partys or the annual drag competition for Miss Pride at the Vienna Pride. She also co-hosted the After-Show-Talk to the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 at the Austrian public service broadcaster.

She is also candidate in the 13. edition of Dancing Stars.[7] Mascara is, after Courtney Act, only the second drag queen who competed at BBC Worldwide's international Dancing with the Stars franchise. Despite high scores from the judges she was eliminated second.

References
  1. Hausenblas, Michael (December 6, 2017). Deppen gibt's überall. Der Standard. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  2. XXL Circus: Official EuroPride After Party im Wiener Prater Dome. Vienna.at. June 12, 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  3. Dänisches Fernsehen findet Conchita Wurst "großartig". Die Presse. February 5, 2014. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  4. Reiseblog: Tamara Mascaras Trip zur Tokyo-Pride. Vangardist – Progressive Men Magazine. June 14, 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  5. LGBT-Fokus: Honeymoon in Wien und bunte Tourist-Info. WienTourismus. March 7, 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  6. #loveyouhater - Sprite engagiert sich in neuer Kampagne gegen Mobbing und Hass im Netz. Coca Cola Austria. June 19, 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  7. „Dancing Stars“: 13. Staffel mit Cesar Sampson und Marcos Nader. Austrian public service broadcaster. December 3, 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.