Sasha Colby was born in Waimānalo, Hawaii, as the youngest of seven children.[8][9][10] She was raised in a conservative Jehovah's Witness household.[11] As a teenager, she secretly did drag, locking herself in the bathroom and wearing her sister's clothes.[12] The first transgender woman she met was her mother’s hairdresser, Tammy.[2] Her father died by suicide in 2016, six years prior to the filming of Sasha’s appearance on Drag Race.[13]
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Sasha Colby has been described as a "beauty queen", a "drag legend",[14] and a "pageant legend".[15] She won the Miss Continental competition in 2012.[8][16]
Colby has Native Hawaiian and Irish heritage. While on Drag Race, Colby performed a lip-sync to "Zombie" by The Cranberries to honor her Irish heritage and the trauma of seeing the Warrington bombings on the news as a child. Additionally, the performance was a tribute to how "Zombie" helped her cope with witnessing her parents' struggles with mental illness, especially her mother who had bipolar disorder.[38][39]
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