Nicky Doll’s time is timed. Marylin Monroe Blonde Wig. Naked black dress with shine. White varnish Similar diamond jewelry. No more heels. As armor for starting in his interview marathon. After several singles, the most famous Drag Queen in France, and Drag Race On France 2 presenter, it really embarks on music with her album Apollo • Artemislaunched on September 4, 2025.
This compilation is placed in an inheritance of Eurodance, with pop inspirations of the 2010, but not only. The single As I see myself This is the perfect example: a loan of FlawlessQueer anthem of those who are reorganized with disco sounds that remember the most beautiful hours of Studio 54, the legendary New York nightclub.
Mythological figures
Among his references are in Madonna in bulk, David Bowie, Lady Gaga, references that had also been created as Avatar ” – Grace Jones, dear … and Homer’s stories.” It was a great geek as a child, she laughs. I have always loved Greek mythology, they were the first fairy tales for me. When I discovered the Iliad and the Odyssey at school, these books fascinated me, read them and read again. “
Nothing is more obvious than invoking the two divine twins Apollo and Artemis, God of the sun and beauty, and the goddess of the night and hunting, for her first album. “I wanted to talk about several dualities,” she says. “The duality of the genre-I am a man who made the female gender, and the duality in the pop that explores: one summer, disc, sunny and the other darker, sexy and sad. It allowed me to pay tribute to the disco, the EDM, the dark pop and propose titles Next to me EITHER Come with me. “
This duality crosses the entire personality of Nicky Doll, a name inspired by “Japanese pop culture” and “90’s haute couture in France.” Under extravagant, fun and jovial looks, also hides a more reserved artist, in control and perfectionist. You just have to observe its brand, meticulous, and the way the light must illuminate it to understand it. Its double can only be impeccable, both on the iPhone screen and in front of journalists, an improved version that offers its defects in other parts in their performance. This Nicky Doll doll may have forged according to childhood injuries that shape his character.
“Drag Queen in power”
Karl Sánchez was born in Marseille in 1991. The fine characteristics, a fragile look, the boy is confused with a girl and undergoes the intimidation of his comrades. “I was still ‘or’ never enough ‘,” summarizes over. In the recess patio, try to harden, adopt a “very masculine appearance”, as a way of protecting. Without success.
Childhood parade, itinerant, between Marseille, the Caribbean and Morocco. “Many may think that it is difficult because we don’t have childhood friends, we are walking to the right and to the left, he admits. But, I loved it. I thank my mother for not knowing how to establish more than five or seven years!” This life, he estimates that Nicky Doll gave him “the taste of others” and “the desire to make a difference, an enemy”, a look in which he shares Nicky’s trips In France 5, to know the tails and cultures of personalities that shape those of each country.
A strange representation that counts, at a time when these subjects can be killed. The artist only knows it too well. It is in Tangier that teenager, Karl discovers his homosexuality. To escape the laws that pursue him, he lives in lies, hides his orientation. Somehow: ungrateful age remains a period in which the desire to distinguish sometimes at all costs. “It was a drag queen in power, laugh. I did, I had ascending stripes, it was too much information for the university!”
The majority arrives, and the desire for freedom becomes irrepressible. The BAC in his pocket, Karl Sánchez opens to his mother and his sisters in his sexuality, leaves for the capital and dreams of the life of an artist. “But, I quickly realized that entering music asked for many financial investments,” he said. I couldn’t pay it, I had enough to pay my rent. “
Makeup artist during the day, drag at night
As a livelihood, the young man invents others in Mac Cosmetics – Auto -taough, learns with YouTube tutorials. “I trained my customers, she remembers, laughing. I apologize for the first one, you were right when lifting your eyebrows looking in the mirror!”
Some brushstrokes that Karl also applies to himself. For his first pride in Paris, he moves dragging and finds a way to channel his femininity. “Becoming Nicky Doll taught me to discover who Karl was and affirm myself as a man,” he explains. I was starting to go to sport, take care of myself a little more and my male style. “
Very quickly, the twenty -year -old captures the attention of night promoters, clubs and works in the middle of the night. “It was a way of expressing myself in a hyper punk way, exploring my sexuality, she meditates. Then, as I advance, I began to educate myself about the art of drag and fascinated me.”
“By putting myself in drag, I wanted to claim these bird names, which I no longer see how insults but fulfilled.”
Installed in San Francisco – “For love, serious error” -, Nicky Doll Signs in an agency, fashion makeup and press stars, and rubs the shoulders with the underground midfielder, including the American popes of the night, Suzanne Bartsch. By whim, Drag Queen enrolled in Ru Paul Drag Race, the original version of the program and the last phenomenon in the community in the United States. And he feels like “Ariel in the Little Mermaid”: “He wanted to say many things, but they could not necessarily because of my English level: it goes very fast, it is a competition and we are stressed.”
Deleted in the fifth week, Nicky Doll laments the image of the “Frenchie” in which production and its competitors blocked it. “The codes that Americans have the French do not correspond to those we have of ourselves. (laughs). But I don’t regret anything “
“Do not soften the drag”
Nicky Doll knows it: it is one of the pioneers of the new drag generation in France. At the head of the Drag Race franchise, the presenter measures the duty and political scope of the visibility of the Drag Queens in the public service.
“Drag is not just brightness, it is above all a political act. A Drag Queens program is not alone there to entertain people outside the community, but also to represent and humanize it with people who do not know it.”
One of its greatest pride has been to humanize the trip of queer people. “It was very important not to soften the drag and demonstrate that an artist is based on his sorrows and his joys to get on stage, he points out. There are experiences of positive people for HIV -Lolita banana testified, transgender people who can be happy as a moon that opened in her partner, and grosophobia problems within the community, the size of Big Bertha of the size.”
A role that counts and does not intend to put aside. Maybe touches it differently, with the launch of your first album. “Music becomes my priority,” he says. The next step will be a solo tour. I have many ideas and I can’t wait to be on the boards to sing my music. Alone, this time, and without my whole Drag Queens family. “
Waiting for their concerts, which we expect Lé -Gen -daires -, Nicky Doll acts on stage for the drag Race France tour in Nantes, Lyon, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulouse and Geneva, with a date at the Arena Accor in Paris, on November 6.
Source: BFM TV
