What Happened to Vera Amrull? Rupaul Drag Race Gives out Tribute to Raja’s Mother
In Baldwin Park, California, Raja Gemini was born in the United States. Hamka, an Indonesian lim and philosopher, was the younger brother of their late father, Abdul Wadud Karim Amrullah.
When they were three years old, their family relocated to their parents’ country of origin, Indonesia, where they lived for six years until coming back to the United States.
Raja started out in the drag scene when they were sixteen years old by going to clubs in Los Angeles with their buddies. They belonged to a drag subculture that drew influence from the punk and goth movements.
Early in the 1990s, they spent the first few years of their drag career as Crayola, a club kid.
After spending two years studying art at California State University, Fullerton with a focus on art direction and illustration, they made the decision to get into makeup artistry and female imitation.
