![]() A three-song EP with producer Cazwell called Blend was released in 2018. Her second studio album Black Pepper was released in June of the same year. On April 3, 2017, Peppermint released a six-track EP of remixes of various songs she had released up to that point, including the single "Dolla in My Titty". Her song "If I Steal Your Boyfriend" was used in the 2011 film Eating Out 5: The Open Weekend. Following the viral success of the music video, Peppermint later released other parody songs, including a parody of Azealia Banks' song " 212", titled "21/12". ![]() In 2011, Sherry Vine and Peppermint released a parody of the Lady Gaga and Beyoncé song " Telephone" titled "Make Me Moan". Peppermint's debut studio album Hardcore Glamour was self-released in 2009 and preceded by the singles "Servin' It Up" and "Thought Ya Knew". Ultimately, she finished in second place after winner Sasha Velour, after they both lip-synced to Whitney Houston's " It's Not Right but It's Okay (Thunderpuss Remix)". Her performances earned her the favorable nickname "Lip Sync Assassin". She placed in the bottom two in two challenges, lip-synching to Madonna's "Music" and the Village People's "Macho Man", winning both. She won the Roast Challenge in episode 8. Though other transgender women have competed on RuPaul's Drag Race, she was the first to have come out prior to the show airing, having come out in 2012. On February 2, 2017, Peppermint was announced as one of the fourteen contestants on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Peppermint talked about being trans publicly for the first time on an episode of The Daily Show called "The Trans Panic Epidemic" in April 2016. Peppermint at RuPaul's DragCon NYC, in 2017 She also appeared as a drag-version of Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model Cycle 14, Episode 5: "Smile and Pose" introducing a drag-theme runway challenge at Lucky Chengs in New York City. The series featured fellow New York drag queens Bianca Del Rio, Dallas DuBois, Hedda Lettuce, Lady Bunny, Mimi Imfurst, and Sherry Vine. Peppermint was featured in the web series Queens of Drag: NYC by gay.com in 2010. The song was later released as Peppermint's debut single in 2006. She contributed the song "Servin' It Up", which was produced by Adam Joseph. She started recording music in 2005 for Jonny McGovern's mixtape Jonny McGovern Presents: This is NYC, Bitch! The East Village Mixtape. While in college she got a job at the nightclub Tunnel's Kurfew parties, ultimately becoming a fixture in New York City nightlife. Peppermint moved to New York City to study musical theatre at AMDA. For a time, she also worked as a makeup artist for MAC Cosmetics. She continued performing at Wilmington High School where she was also on the cheerleading team. Peppermint started performing as a child in youth theatre, playing roles at Opera Delaware, Delaware Children's Theatre, and The Brandywiners Community Theatre. While a contestant on Drag Race, Peppermint revealed that when she had been a high-school cheerleader, she had been beaten up by a male member of her high school's basketball team. She transitioned after moving to New York City and came out in 2012, before she appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race. She felt her gender non-conformity was policed, so she tried to fit in with others' expectations. Peppermint was raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Īs a recording artist, she has released two studio albums, Hardcore Glamour, released in 2009, and Black Pepper, released in 2017, as well as five EPs, including A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers, which was released in 2020. In 2018, Peppermint made her debut in The Go-Go's-inspired musical Head Over Heels as Pythio, becoming Broadway's first out trans woman to originate a lead role. She is best known from the nightlife scene and, in 2017, as the runner-up on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Peppermint, or Miss Peppermint (born 1979), is an American actress, singer, songwriter, television personality, drag queen, and activist.
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