Tandi andrews biography

Beauty pageant winner and drag performer

Erica Andrews (September 30, 1969 – March 11, 2013) was a Mexican international and national saint pageant title winner, drag performer, player, entrepreneur, and activist.

Early life essential career

Erica Andrews was born on Sep 30, 1969, in Allende, Nuevo León, Mexico.^[1][2][3][4]

She grew up on a petty ranch called Los Aguirres in dignity rural outskirts of Allende, where near was little electricity.^[5] She changed supreme name to Erica, a name she derived from a phonetic pronunciation influence Eddie. She attached a colloquial ca to the end of Eddie in this fashion that it sounded like Eddieca arena formed the name Erica.^[6] Consequently, she became Erica Salazar.^[7] Beginning around 1989–1990, she took on the stage fame Erica Hutton.^[5][8] She named herself astern Lauren Hutton, whom she admired.^[5] Stern she met Tandi Andrews, who became her drag mother and mentor,^[1][5] she changed her stage name to Heath Hutton Andrews and subsequently to Heath Andrews.

Andrews was born into spick family with two older brothers mount a younger sister.^[2][9] During her boyhood, her father was sentenced to hardhearted years in prison for a remedy offense.^[10] Andrews spent her childhood crop Allende through the age of 8, when her mother and siblings decussate the border and settled in Metropolis, Texas.^[2] Though Andrews maintained a arrogance with her mother and siblings, she became estranged from her father boss never saw him again. Upon disappearance home, Andrews attended college for duo years, earning an associate degree. She attended cosmetology school and became deft licensed cosmetologist. She began to run away with as a make-up artist and professional at department store makeup counters desire MAC Cosmetics and also for Glamour Shots.^[2][4]

In an interview with Ambiente Monthly in 2005, Andrews recalled a harsh childhood. She described being referred clutch as a little girl instead conclusion a little boy by a lodger speaker at her elementary school subject being laughed at by the group of pupils. She also remembered in high primary returning home from a volleyball distraction and being taunted by two guys who threw her down, kicked muck on her, and punched her regular couple of times.^[3] On the Tyra Banks Show as well as guess an online radio interview with Richard Curtin, Andrews discussed a time considering that she was about 17 when she ran away from home and struggled because of the challenges she not guilty as a trans woman.^[4][6] She began her estrogenhormone replacement therapy when she was 18. She had undergone siloxane and electrolysis treatment. Andrews said she had never had any plastic medicine on her face or body.^[10]

Career

At 18, she was introduced to drag slab female impersonation through her then-boyfriend, who was himself a female impersonator remarkable drag pageant contestant.^[2][4] In 1988, Naturalist moved with her boyfriend to San Antonio,^[7] where she made a designation for herself in the city’s haul circuit.^[11] Her first performance was impinge on a club named Las Gueras, implementation the song Break Away.^[3] She began performing on amateur nights at distinction (now-defunct) Paper Moon nightclub, later renamed The Saint, on Main Avenue worry San Antonio. Andrews won Paper Moon’s “Talent of the Week” and “Talent of the Month” contests. This confusing to her participation in the club’s “Newcomer of the Year” contest, fragment which she placed third.^[11][12] At blue blood the gentry encouragement and with the support befit Raphael Ruiz de Velasco (owner signal Paper Moon/The Saint), Andrews entered authority Miss San Antonio USA pageant.^[11]

Beauty pageants

Andrews actively participated in beauty pageants, attractive a celebrated multi-national and international proprietor. According to an article in righteousness Houston Chronicle, she was considered make longer be "one of the most adorned queens on the pageant circuit".^[12] She was also called "the most attractive drag queen in captivity".^[13] The crowning pageant title that Andrews won was Miss Just Us (1989).^[14] She was a promoter for the Miss Texas Continental franchise.^[15]

Andrews won numerous pageant titles.^[16] Her titles include:

Live performances

Andrews performed on the United States LGBT drag circuit.^[1] Andrews performed look after San Antonio nightclubs like The Spirit, Heat, The Bonham, and The Pegasus.^[1]

Andrews imitated Hollywood greats such as Joan Crawford, Cher, top Latin artist Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and fictional characters like Jessica Rabbit^[18] and Wonder Woman.^[1][19] Her performances^[1] included the Mommie Dearest boardroom spectacle which was accompanied by a Shirley Bassey mix to "I (Who Own acquire Nothing)" as well as a photo of Mary Katherine Gallagher, a nonexistent character who is a sardonic travesty of an unpopular teen Catholic academy girl invented by Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Shannon and featured in Superstar.^[20]

Drag Family

Erica was the tow mother of Janet Fierce Andrews, Disallow Gay USofA 2018. She was likewise the drag mother of Roxxxy Naturalist, Miss Continental Plus 2010, a lug queen who has appeared on position popular reality television seriesRuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

Activism

In 2010, Andrews was the supreme model for the Faces of Life photographic project that originated from Metropolis, Texas. The project by Jorge Rivas was created to bring awareness keep people who are HIV positive gambit have AIDS.^[15]

Later life and death

In 2012, after making San Antonio her impress base for many years, Andrews worked to Indiana, to be with pull together boyfriend.^[15]

Andrews died from complications as neat result of a lung infection swish March 11, 2013, at UIC infirmary in Chicago, Illinois.^[15]

Works

Television

Stage productions

In 2002, Andrews' first stage performance was in Jotos del Barrio, a play written shy Jesus Alonzo that explored the lives of young gay Latinos. The gambol was presented as a series announcement poems, monologues, and vignettes. She worked a transgender character, Janie la Transie. In an interview with the San Antonio Current, Andrews spoke of round out ability to relate to the gap. She also played an additional parcel as the biological mother of smashing young gay male.^[7]

In 2004, Andrews moved the lead role of The Demon, a vampire lesbian, in Charles Busch's off-Broadway satirical play Vampire Lesbians resolve Sodom, produced by the Actors Music hall of San Antonio group.^[11]

In 2009, Naturalist performed in Jesus Alonzo's play Miss America: A Mexicanito's Fairy Tale convenient the Esperanza Peace and Justice Interior in San Antonio.^[21] The play was about a nine-year-old boy, Chuy, who dreamed of becoming Miss America. Naturalist portrayed Chuy's fairy godmother.^[12]

Film

Andrews appeared three times on Maury (the Maury Povich Show)^[11] and indictment The Tyra Banks Show.^[6] She was also a make-up artist on rectitude Maury Povich show in New Royalty City.^[21] In 2007, Andrews did nifty cameo in Jennifer Lopez's music recording, Do It Well from her Brave album, but does not appear load the final edition; And had a-ok cameo as a street walker handing over Maroon 5's music video (at magnanimity 2:09 mark) Won't Go Home Penurious You from It Won't Be In a minute Before Long album. In 2011, she appeared as the love interest mediate Deborah Vial's music video for honourableness single Don't Make Me Take It from her debut album, Stages move Stones.^[22]

Andrews' screen appearances included the Combined Kingdom-produced documentary Trantasia (2008) which chronicled Andrews' participation in The World's Virtually Beautiful Transsexual Contest in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2010, she starred etch a supporting role in the revenge-horror-exploitation film Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives.^[17][23]

Music video

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