Megami | |
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Born | Jonathan Soto-Reyes April 21, 1989
New York City,
New York, U.S. |
Other names | Megami D.Vil |
Occupation | Drag queen |
Television | RuPaul's Drag Race ( season 16) |
Megami, also known as Megami D.Vil, is the stage name of Jonathan Soto-Reyes [1] [2] (born April 21, 1989), [3] [4] an American drag queen and cosplayer [5] best known for competing on season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race. She was born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Staten Island, [6] and is currently based in Brooklyn. [7]
Megami began performing in drag in 2016 when she won the cosplay lip-sync show GeekSync in New York. Her drag name is inspired both by the Japanese word for goddess and by the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga. [4]
Megami was cast on the sixteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, having applied to compete on the show five times. [8] Megami first appeared in the season's second episode which premiered on January 12, 2024. Her talent show performance in this episode, in which she held up a banner stating "Protect Queer Art", subsequently became a meme in the Drag Race community; it was the subject of a parody by The Boulet Brothers' Dragula contestant Meatball at her Fat Slut drag show. [9]
Megami won her first challenge in the fifth episode of the season as part of a girl group with Geneva Karr, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Nymphia Wind. [10] Megami was eliminated in the seventh episode after underperforming in the season's Rusical challenge, a parody of The Sound of Music, and losing a lip-sync to Miley Cyrus' " Flowers" against Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige. [11] She placed tenth overall.
Megami returned in the fifteenth episode to compete in a lip sync tournament where she beat three previously eliminated contestants: Q to " What About" by Janet Jackson; Amanda Tori Meating to " The Shoop Shoop Song" by Cher; and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige to " We Got the Beat" by the Go-Go's. She made it to the final round, where she ended up losing against Morphine Love Dion to " Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory. [12]