Sutan Amrull known also as Raja and Raja Gemini, is an American make-up artist and drag

Drag queen

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 performer. He is best known for his work on the reality television

Reality television

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 show America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model

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, serving as the show's make-up artist for nine cycles (fourth

America's Next Top Model, Cycle 4

America's Next Top Model, Cycle 4 aired in spring 2005, with the shooting location being moved from New York City to Los Angeles. The catch-phrase of the season was "Dive In."...

 through twelve

America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12

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). Amrull's clients include Dita von Teese

Dita Von Teese

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, Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson

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, Paulina Porizkova

Paulina Porizkova

Pavlína Pořízková-Ocasek is a Czech model and actress. At the age of eighteen years, she became the first woman from Central Europe to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated swim-suit issue. She was the second woman to be featured on the swim-suit issue's front cover consecutive times...

, Iman

Iman

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, Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks

Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough...

 and Twiggy

Twiggy

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. Since 2009, Amrull has been make-up artist to singer Adam Lambert

Adam Lambert

Adam Mitchel Lambert is an American singer, songwriter, and actor from San Diego, California. In May 2009, he finished as the runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol...

 for print media, live U.S. appearances and Lambert's international 2010 Glam Nation Tour.

RuPaul's Drag Race

Presenting his drag alter-ego Raja, Amrull auditioned for the third season of the reality program, which included an endorsement from Adam Lambert on his audition video. Raja entered the Drag Race workroom dressed in club attire and wearing a beanie that had a giant cyclops eye on it. Highlights include wins in the first mini challenge and main challenge of the season, impersonating Tyra Banks, winning the cake couture challenge, winning the RuPaul-palooza challenge, and lip synching for his life against contestant Carmen Carrera. In the final episode, after a lip sync battle with Manila Luzon

Manila Luzon

Manila Luzon is a Filipino American drag queen and reality television personality from New York City. He is best known as the runner-up of the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race. His drag name is a play on words of the capital city and the largest island of the Philippines, where his mother was...

, Raja was declared the winner of the show's third season and crowned America's Next Drag Superstar. Since winning Drag Race, Raja has been performing at various venues throughout the United States. As part of his duties as the third season winner of Drag Race, he is set to tour the U.S. and Canada

Canada

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 on Logo's Drag Race Tour in 2012, which is sponsored by corporate sponsor Absolut Vodka

Absolut Vodka

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Music

In May 2011, Amrull released his first single "Diamond Crowned Queen", which is available for purchase via iTunes

ITunes

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 and other commercial music sites.

Discography

Singles

Single (music)

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• "Diamond Crowned Queen" (2011)

External links

• Official website - Raja
• Official website - Sutan Amrull
• Sutan Amrull on the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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• Interview on The Advocate
  The Advocate
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