Drag performer Granados-Portelance appeared as Icesis Couture on the second season of the documentary series Canada's a Drag in 2019,[4] and won Ottawa's Miss Capital Pride pageant in 2020.[5]
In 2021, Icesis Couture competed in the second season of Canada's Drag Race,[6] winning two challenges over the course of the season and ultimately winning the competition over finalists Pythia and Kendall Gender.[7] On the night of the Canada's Drag Race finale, all three finalists were at a viewing party at Toronto's Danforth Music Hall, on a bill that also included Icesis Couture's "drag daughters" Kimmy and Savannah Couture, as well as Makayla Couture, an emerging Toronto drag artist who had appeared in the prom makeover episode as Icesis Couture drag daughter "Ruby Couture".[8] On the same day, Icesis Couture released "La Pusetta", a bilingual English and Spanish pop single and music video created in collaboration with DJ and producer Velvet Code under the music label So Fierce Music.[8][9] In 2021, Icesis Couture modelled the Amsterdam Rainbow Dress, described as "a voluminous multicoloured gown that embodies a powerful statement about the global persecution of LGBTQ people", at Ottawa's National Gallery of Canada.[10][11]
In 2023, Icesis Couture participated, alongside fellow CDR alumni Kimora Amour and Suki Doll, in Courage Across Canada, a speaking tour in which the CDR queens spoke to high school students about bullying and homophobia.[13]
Icesis Couture has also worked as a costume and jewelry designer and has made jewelry for Brooke Lynn Hytes and assisted other Canada's Drag Race contestants coming from Ottawa.[14]
Personal life
Granados-Portelance is of Salvadoran and French Canadian descent,[8] and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.[15] His younger brother Randy is also a drag queen, who performs under the name Savannah Couture.[1]
Granados-Portelance is a close friend of Kiki Coe, a drag performer who was contemporaneously a competitor in the first season of the drag competition series Call Me Mother[8] and later became a competitor in the fourth season of Canada's Drag Race.[16] Granados-Portelance is also the "drag mother" of Kimmy Couture, a contestant on the third season of Canada's Drag Race,[17] and Makayla Couture, a contestant on the second season of Call Me Mother who Granados-Portelance put into drag for the makeover challenge of Canada's Drag Race season two.[18][19]
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