Meet Salina EsTitties

Today we’d like to introduce you to Salina EsTitties.

Salina, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I was born in the bay area, Northern California, but moved here to LA when I was 17 years old. I came to Hollywood for college and graduated at the age of 20 with a BFA in musical theater. Initially, my dream was to be on Broadway, but Honey didn’t have the coins to make it to New York. And after working so hard in school for the past three years, there is a part of me that just wanted to party. I remember my first time in West Hollywood was during the Halloween festival and I was so enamored with the scene. Needless to say, I got carried away in that nightlife fantasy. Two years of drug use and finding myself homeless at one point and run down to the ground, I got sober a month after I turn 21. Now, this is a really young age to get sober but something told me that everything was happening for a reason. Of course, I left out a lot of the crazy details but I really was going nowhere in my life during that time. When I got sober, it was a new opportunity for me to really chase after whatever I wanted. I found myself auditioning for Scholarship at the edge performing arts center. A professional year-long dance program that usually sets you up for a career in commercial dance here in Hollywood.

From there, I finally had an agent and start auditioning around town and putting myself in the Hollywood entertainment industry game. Well, it looked as though Hollywood didn’t know what to do with me. I started helping a friend who wanted to become a drag queen, and eventually found myself performing in a little competition. This opened up a whole new world of performance for me that allowed ME to make the rules. DRAG really revealed myself to me. I’ve been doing drag now for five years, and I’ve been sober for 8. The fact that I get to call the shots for my creativity and execute my ideas to the best of my ability, with the few resources I have, means the world to me. All the work I’ve done emotionally, spiritually, and mentally have set me up to be the best pillar of sparkling light I can be through my drag.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Now Drag is not an easy career path to take. Actually, I don’t think anyone should ever strive to want to be a drag queen. Hahaha. Now drag is EXPENSIVE! The wigs, the fabric, the makeup, the heels (IN MY SIZE), the time it takes to make a mix, choreograph dances, sew a costume, ITS ALOT. Not to mention cultivating a name in the nightlife scene is not easy to do either. I got really burnt out after doing drag for about two years. Even though I has just won this prestigious competition and was doing well and progressing —— I was kind of lost and broke AF! I had no purpose with my drag at that point of my life I didn’t know why I was doing it & everything just all came to a halt. A fall out with a friend, and some immature drag queen nonsense put me on pause. I had to reevaluate life and why I was doing drag as it wasn’t lucrative and also, I wasn’t having any fun anymore with the drama I found that came with it. I took about six months off and some people even called me “The Queen the quit drag.” I really just needed some time to think and reevaluate. I remember I went home back to Stockton at my parent’s house for Christmas, and on the greyhound bus back to Hollywood, I was listening to a podcast with RuPaul and Oprah. RuPaul had said something along about his purpose in life.

And that purpose was to “Experience Life itself, and share that with others” in that moment I thought to myself, “omg, I got sober at 21 for a reason!!!! There’s a purpose here!!! I have a purpose!!!! My life experience is meaningful and I can share That with the world THROUGH MY DRAG, my creative platform!” In that moment greyhound bus with my headphones on I looked out the window and we were driving through Hollywood and in the sky a shooting star flew by and I just started crying on that bus. I finally had found purpose with my life, and with what I can do with drag here in this lifetime. My drag suddenly had meaning and purpose. And wouldn’t you know the minute I got home on my table in the kitchen was a notebook full of plans I had written down years prior that I wanted to accomplish with my drive. And here I am at the peak of my drag career and it’s only the beginning.

We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
I am Salina EsTitties. Your campy eccentric spicy Latina showgirl!!!!!! At first, people just quit me as a dancing queen because coming off of my dance scholarship program, I was an amazing dancer, so I would really utilize that in my performance. As I affected my art, I found that Drag doesn’t just need to exist in the clubs at the bars. Because I’m sober being at the bars isn’t my favorite place to be anyways, so I found solace in creating opportunities for myself at home. I started to make Parody videos. My first one was a parody of Stephen kings it. This video went viral and I finally found my niche. It has over 1 million views on YouTube and it people still talk about it today. They sent me on my journey to being a campy, comedy queen. I stand out because I don’t put myself in a box I like to venture off and try it all aspects of entertainment through my Drag I’ve been on multiple TV shows and film sets.

This video went viral and I finally found my niche. It has over 1 million views on YouTube and it people still talk about it today. They sent me on my journey to being a campy, comedy queen. I stand out because I don’t put myself in a box I like to venture off and try at all aspects of entertainment through my Drag I’ve been on multiple TV shows and film sets. Last year I performed my own one woman show as part of the short and sweet festival Hollywood. I mostly perform here in West Hollywood but I’ve gotten to perform in New York with some of the best of the best and my Drag aesthetic and brand just continue to grow and get polished as time goes by. I have to say I am the most proud of the fact that I am fearless when it comes to performance. I am willing to put myself out there and look crazy to entertain the children mama.

What were you like growing up?
Growing up, I was a sweet good little kid. I love dancing and singing and putting on little shows. I remember in kindergarten, I had the same kindergarten teacher as my father did, Miss Garfee. We used to have this trunk full of costumes so we can play dress up, and I remember very vividly putting on the Cinderella ball gown and strutting through the classroom and everyone was cheering for me, and when I got to the end of the “runway” miss Garfee was standing over me and said, “Dresses are for little girls take that off right now” I had gotten in trouble and sent to the corner. Looking back at this, I’m like OK wow. In high school, I was the theater kid. In every show performing. I love the movie Fame, High school musical, dream girls all that goodness. I remember I taught myself how to play piano and I just lived for the performing arts. My parents had me when they were 18 so they were both really young and always working when I was little so I had a lot of time to play outdoors and be creative and kind of do whatever I wanted. I was a kid who made the most with what he had which wasn’t much but my imagination and creativity kept me alive.

Contact Info:

• Phone: 2096620822
• Email: jasdepuy@gmail.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/estitties
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