Tuesday, May 3, 2016

RuPaul's Drag Race's Mimi Imfurst Releases Debut Album, 'The Fire'

RuPaul's Drag Race alumni Mimi Imfurst’s first full-length album, The Fire, is a pop-rock album that bursts with emotion. 

“I’ve been tested by the universe so many times in my life and I refuse to back down,” says Mimi Imfurst from her home in Philadelphia. She describes being on RuPaul’s Drag Race as both amazing and difficult at the same time. “I am so lucky for the many blessings it gave me but it literally deconstructed my world. I was forced to confront many dark corners of my life.”

Those dark corners included being kicked out of her home as a teen and being outed as gay to her family. “One never truly gets over the experience of having to beg for food, a place to stay, a shower, clean clothes. I remember longing for someone with an ear willing to listen and a heart to understand what I was going through. Being homeless and LGBTQ was the very first fire I had to walk though,” she says.