Ry Bred burst through the front double doors of Bar Cala’s drag brunch one recent Sunday morning for her dance number, a vision in a fuchsia beaded jumpsuit. As Ry Bred danced and lip-synced to the 1979 disco hit “Knock on Wood,” she made the most of Bar Cala’s baby pink support beams as a dance accessory. She took a swig from the corner table’s bottle of Champagne. She boldly and successfully combined an auburn wig with fuchsia lipstick—an advanced move, for sure.
And now, Ry Bred is WW’s inaugural Finest Drag Artist, after only two years in the biz.
“It’s crazy. It’s wild,” she says. “I’m on this list with icons in the scene who’ve been doing it, some of them, for a decade or longer. So it feels really validating to be seen by my peers for what I bring.”…