Sapphira Cristál is a classically trained opera singer, composer, and drag queen known for her theatrical lip sync style and six-octave vocal range. She was the runner-up and Miss Congeniality on season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, where she showed her incredible versatility as a performer, including winning the first challenge with her very special rendition of O mio babbino caro.

Sapphira holds 16 pageant crowns—including Miss'd America 2020/21. She has performed nationwide, notably appearing twice at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival: first in 2019, when she sang on the same bill as Stephanie Blythe, and again in 2023, when she was featured as a headlining artist. In the drag sphere, Sapphira is renowned as a charismatic host who commands the room and establishes a special, intimate connection with her audience. Philadelphia magazine named her 2023’s Best Drag Queen Who Actually Sings.

In 2024, she was thrice the guest artist in Madonna’s Celebration Tour, and she debuted her original operatic production, Soundcake, with Monét X Change and Thorgy Thor at Lincoln Center. Afterward, she brought her one-woman show, The Cristál Ball Tour, across North America.  Most recently she brought her show, Sapphira Cristál Presents: One Slue Over The Cuckoo's Nest to City Winery and appeared at New York City’s famed 54 Below. She has also starred in in RuPaul’s Drag Race Live in Las Vegas and recently starred in several Pride events including Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Pride Block Party at ICON Stage and Central Alabama’s Pride Fest. Most recently, she joined fellow Drag Race favorites Ginger Minj and Jujubee on tour across the country in Hokus Pokus Live!, an autumnal Hocus Pocus parody.