{"id":22006,"date":"2025-10-30T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22006\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:19:13","slug":"this-latina-drag-queen-impersonated-celia-cruz-on-drag-race-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22006\/","title":{"rendered":"This Latina Drag Queen Impersonated Celia Cruz on \u2018Drag Race Espa\u00f1a\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of Celia Cruz\u2019s centennial celebrations, the late Cuban legend was recognized in a recent episode of Drag Race Espa\u00f1a. Venezuelan drag queen Krystal Forever impersonated Cruz for the Snatch Game challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, who passed away in 2003, recently celebrated what would\u2019ve been her 100th birthday on Oct. 21. All this year, her legacy and <a href=\"https:\/\/remezcla.com\/music\/heres-how-to-get-celia-cruz-johnny-pachecos-son-con-guaguanco-lp-on-vinyl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a> have been celebrated as part of her centennial anniversary. Surprisingly, Cruz was also impersonated on Drag Race Espa\u00f1a on Sunday night (August 26).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Krystal Forever was the sole Latina competing on the fifth season of Drag Race Espa\u00f1a. When the drag queen told the judges that she would take Celia Cruz for the Snatch Game, she was reminded that <a href=\"https:\/\/remezcla.com\/lists\/film\/rpdr-latina-queens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lineysha Sparx<\/a> was eliminated for her portrayal of the Queen of Salsa on the fifth season of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race. <\/p>\n<p>Krystal Forever still pushed forward with Cruz and donned the singer\u2019s big hair and sparkling red gown. She often leaned into Cruz\u2019s \u201c\u00a1Az\u00facar!\u201d catchphrase, including throwing sugar on the rest of the cast.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/remezcla.com\/music\/when-will-celia-cruzs-u-s-quarters-be-in-circulation-heres-what-we-know\/\" title=\"When Will Celia Cruz\u2019s U.S. Quarters Be in Circulation? Here\u2019s What We Know\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Celia-Cruz-Culture.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following day, Krystal Forever blamed the show\u2019s host Supremme De Luxe for not letting her finish her answers on the Snatch Game. After placing in the bottom, Supremme De Luxe then directly asked Krystal Forever why she didn\u2019t stand out during the challenge. Krystal Forever changed her reason to not wanting to step over her castmates\u2019 responses. In Untucked, the other queens confronted Krystal Forever about her change of heart in front of Supremme De Luxe and she got defensive and momentarily walked off the set.<\/p>\n<p>Krystal Forever ended up having to lip-sync to Ana Bel\u00e9n\u2019s \u201cEl Hombre del Piano\u201d against Alexandra del Raval. She was eliminated in ninth place and Supremme De Luxe got emotional bidding her farewell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New episodes of Drag Race Espa\u00f1a stream Sunday nights on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowpresentsplus.com\/drag-race-espana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WOW Presents Plus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the middle of Celia Cruz\u2019s centennial celebrations, the late Cuban legend was recognized in a recent episode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[14666,4942,9,24,63,122,124,123,4943],"class_list":["post-22006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-celia-cruz","tag-drag-race","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rupauls-drag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}