Canadian drag entertainer from Montreal, Quebec most noted as a competitor in the first season of Canada’s Drag Race in 2020, also sometimes credited as Kiara Schatzi.
The biracial son of a Black Canadian father and a Québécois mother, Nana-Côté grew up in Quebec City, and moved to Montreal to study film at Concordia University. He began performing drag at Cabaret Mado, including as Mel B in a regular Spice Girls tribute show, choosing the drag name Kiara in reference to the character Kiara from The Lion King.
Kiara appeared on the first season of Canada’s Drag Race, and was eliminated from the competition in the fifth episode after performing a poor impression of Mariah Carey in the Snatch Game challenge; however, her Lip Sync for Your Life performance against Priyanka, to Céline Dion’s cover of “I Drove All Night”, was widely labelled as the best lipsync battle of the season and one of the best in the history of the Drag Race franchise.
In October 2020, Kiara appeared in the video for Cœur de pirate’s single “T’es belle”. In the same month, Kiara released her first single as a vocalist, a bilingual collaboration with Matante Alex and Marc-André Sauvageau titled “Straight to Your Heart” in English and “Droit sur ton cœur” in French.
Kiara also had a small acting role in “The Son”, an LGBT-themed episode of the 2020 television anthology series Little America.
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