2020-10-05

Qya Cristál

Qya Cristál (Provincetown, Massachusetts) 

Qya Cristál is a singer, musician, and drag performer based in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She is former Miss Gay USofA Massachusetts 2018, and 4th Runner up for Miss Gay USofA 2018, as well as the winner of the Boston Drag Idol 2019. She holds a degree from Berklee College of Music and has performed in venues across the North Eastern Drag community. She has put on her own one woman shows and performed at events in venues including House of La Rue, Provincetown and Jonathan Hawkins Richardson’s Broadway on the Beach at Crown & Anchor. Through her creative work, she seeks to share messages of love, peace, and acceptance, as well as to continue to show support for her LGBTQIA+ family and assert that Black/Trans/POC Lives Matter. 

Interviewed by Tamar Sella, 10/05/2020.

Tamar Sella

Music; United States; Covid-19 Pandemic

Provincetown, Massachusetts

Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Society for Ethnomusicology