Corpus Christi native to compete on HBO Max’s ‘Legendary’ – Riverside, California
Riverside, California 2022-05-19 12:32:32 –
When it came to making life-changing decisions in 2008, Charles Roy arranged the pros and cons.
He was planning to graduate from Ray High School and had to choose between staying in Texas for college education or moving to Los Angeles to attend the private Loyola Marymount University.
Roy said the only downside to the latter was living expenses. Everything else was professional.
“I told myself,’I’m not going to stop my fear,'” Roy said. “In addition to the leap of faith, I started a new life with a *** ton of student loan.”
Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Roy, 31, has been in the world of dance since high school. Roy, who has been playing sports since he was able to walk, exchanged precision with pirouettes in touchdowns and tracks.
He started a hip-hop dance group at Ray, Teens of Crank, and started attending a dance studio with his cousin Alexis Anderson Chavez, who is now a dance professor at El Paso Community College.
In the fall after graduating from high school, Roy booked a gig in LA to perform with pop R & B singer Rihanna at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.
Fourteen years later, Roy will be joining HBO Max’s Vogue Reality Competition Streaming Series “Legendary.” The program aims to give LGBTQIA + ballroom house members a chance to compete for nine balls, a dance, vogue and walking event, and win $ 100,000.
Ballroom is a subculture born in New York City by the African-American and Latin LGBTQIA + communities. Participants create models in dance, fashion, walk, pose, performance, lip sync, and numerous drug and performance contest categories to win prizes and trophies.
The third season will premiere on Thursday.
Roy’s house, the House of Ada, is the first gender-incompatible house to compete in the show. My home is from Portland, Oregon.
A home is a place where a family of selected friends live together and form a relationship or community separate from the family from which they came from.
“We are essentially a house full of immigrants,” Roy said. “I’m from Texas, but the story of African Americans is one of the scariest immigrant stories in itself.”
Members of other homes come from a mix of nationalities and races, including Mexico, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indians, whites, and blacks.
“Our home reflects where the ballroom came today,” Roy said.
He said Roy joined Ada’s house in 2020. He met his father, Daniel Giron, in 2018 while “fighting” on the ballroom floor at a trendy tournament in Los Angeles.
“Our chemistry was dynamic, which guaranteed to lift the energy in the room,” Giron said.
Roy said people are looking forward to seeing the “legendary”. He said he and his new family were approaching for competition.
“The show was very challenging, especially during the pandemic,” Roy said. “Just before we got there, the cases were increasing again. No one had to be quarantined to get sick. And when we got there, we were quarantined again. I had to do it. “
Roy said the show was emotionally challenging.
“If you experience hard and overwhelming things, you will be intimate with everyone,” Roy said. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Roy’s stage persona, Virgo, is a force to be considered, Gilon said.
“He encourages us as a team player, but leads with love and loyalty as friends,” Giron said. “He quickly gains the trust and respect of all members of the house and is often regarded as another parent in the group.”
Roy’s cousin Anderson Chavez said he was excited to see where Roy would go in 10 years. She said she was proud that he was a real self.
“As a gay black man, he’s in a difficult career area to succeed,” Anderson Chavez said. “It’s not only great that he takes the world first, but he represents young individuals around the world as well as he does,” he said.
Roy said when he was young that no one respects someone like him, but it’s an honor to be that person for others.
“I wasn’t sure what I was doing and who I was in high school,” Roy said. “I didn’t know what I was doing now. I wish I could meet such a different person. I’m a black, gay, vague woman.
“The biggest thing I got to where I am now was in the face of fear. If fear is the only drawback, it’s a realistic reason enough to risk living my dreams. Not. That one choice led me here. Don’t choose to be afraid. “
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