Who am I?

I was born a few years ago in the city of Southampton. I grew up with various different ambitions, I wanted to be a social worker, a singer, an actor and even at one point a nurse!

I first got into Drag when I was 18. A Club I was working in was throwing a "Priscilla" themed night and I dragged up for the very first time. I was Christened "Burly Chasis" and for a while I dragged up at weekends. However when I left the club I left Ms Chasis and drag behind too!

Scroll forward a few years to January 2004 and I was sat in the back bar of a pub in Leeds getting quietly pissed with a friend when the manager was complaining about not having a karaoke host. I piped up that I'd hosted the odd night "down South"... when he said he specifically wanted a drag queen I said I'd done that too! Whether he was desperate, was just willing to give anyone a go or saw something in me that he thought would work I still don't know but he gave me a start and 2 weeks later with dodgy make-up and an even dodgier wig Anna Glypta was born!

I stayed at that pub for three years and during that time taught myself to DJ, got involved with Pride events, caught the performance bug and through working with other Drag Queens steadily improved my look and my act! After three years I left to work at another local bar and it was here at The Viaduct Showbar that I began to truly discover my love for performing cabaret and singing.

Since 2004 I've been honoured with an entry into the Leeds Pride Awards Hall of Fame, become "Creative Controller" of Drag 4 U, judged Drag Idol for three years, appeared on the BBC and Bio, written a regular column fopr a local magazine, featured in the national press, had a successfull summer season in Scarborough and performed and sang in front of tens of thousands of people at Pride events all over the UK.

It's not always been easy doing this job and one picture in the gallery shows that being a bloke in a frock can be dangerous at times and isn't always glamour and glitter but I can honestly say that I LOVE what I do! And hopefully if you've read this you do too!