Icesis Couture is the stage name of Steven Granados-Portelance (born February 3, 1987),

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"All in the glamly: These real-life brothers are giving Ottawa drag a jolt of sister queen realness"
.

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, February 13, 2019. a Canadian

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who won the second season of ''

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'' in 2021. She later returned to compete on the first season of the spin-off series, '' Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World'', in 2022.

Career

Drag performer Granados-Portelance appeared as Icesis Couture on the second season of the documentary series ''

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'' in 2019, and won Ottawa's Miss Capital Pride pageant in 2020. In 2021, Icesis Couture competed in the second season of ''

'', winning two challenges over the course of the season and ultimately winning the competition over finalists

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and Kendall Gender. On the night of the ''Canada's Drag Race'' finale, all three finalists were at a viewing party at Toronto's

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, on a bill that also included Icesis Couture's "drag daughters" Kimmy and Savannah Couture, as well as

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, an emerging Toronto drag artist who had appeared in the prom makeover episode as Icesis Couture drag daughter "Ruby Couture".Russ Martin
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'', December 17, 2021. 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''. 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

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. In 2022, Icesis Couture returned to compete on '' Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World'' against other former competitors from across the ''Drag Race'' franchise, including fellow ''

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alumni Kendall Gender and Stephanie Prince. She placed in the top two in the second episode for her impersonation of

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in the

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challenge and was never up for elimination throughout her run. In episode 4, Icesis Couture withdrew from the competition citing her mental health, and placed sixth overall. In 2023, Icesis Couture participated, alongside fellow ''CDR'' alumni

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and Suki Doll, in Courage Across Canada, a speaking tour in which the ''CDR'' queens spoke to high school students about

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and

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. Icesis Couture has also worked as a costume and jewelry designer and has made jewelry for

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and assisted other ''Canada's Drag Race'' contestants coming from Ottawa.

Personal life

Granados-Portelance is of

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and

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descent, and lives in

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, Ontario. His younger brother Randy is also a drag queen, who performs under the name Savannah Couture. 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 ''

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'' and later became a competitor in the fourth season of ''Canada's Drag Race''. Granados-Portelance is also the drag mother of Kimmy Couture, a contestant on the third season of ''Canada's Drag Race'', and Makayla Couture, a contestant on the second season of ''Call Me Mother'' and

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who Granados-Portelance put into drag for the makeover challenge of ''Canada's Drag Race'' season two.

Filmography

Hell Hotel 2025

Web series

* ''

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'' (2024)

Discography

Singles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Icesis Couture 1987 births Living people 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people Canada's Drag Race winners Canadian drag queens Canadian people of Salvadoran descent Franco-Ontarian people Drag performers from Ottawa Canadian costume designers Canadian jewellery designers Designers from Ottawa Canada's Drag Race contestants