Biography
Dashaun Wesley is an American dancer, actor, choreographer, ballroom performer, host, and pundit. He has hosted the voguing competition series Legendary and appeared on the television shows America’s Best Dance Crew and Pose. He is commonly referred to as the “King of Vogue”.
Age
He is 39 years old as of 27 August 2023. He was born in 1984 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
Family – Education
Wesley was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. He started dancing at age four. Wesley originally discovered voguing at the age of 14 and later became involved in the ballroom scene as a teenager. When he was 19, his mother died from HIV/AIDS.
Partner
Wesley is gay and resides in L.A.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $ 2 million.
Legendary
Dashaun hosts the show and serves as the MC Chanter. He was once a part of the House of Xclusive Lanvin, the first runner-up from Season 1. In Legendary, Wesley and Leiomy Maldonado are the only ballroom-related characters on the main panel. Thus, during the show, he teaches the others and the viewers about the world of ballroom dancing and asks the judges what qualities they should look for when the candidates compete in episodic balls. He is also the MC and Chanter for the competitors.
Pose
Wesley is an actor who appears as Shadow Wintour in the FX series Pose’s Season Two episodes Worth It, Never Knew Love Like This Before, What Would Candy Do?, Love’s in Need of Love Today, Revelations, and In My Heels. Shadow, along with Silhouette, is the reigning King of Vogue, as well as a former member of the House of Wintour who has joined the House of Khan.
Shadow and his dancing partner Silhouette gave a public performance at the Piers before being welcomed to the House of Wintour, led by Elektra. Accepting this invitation, he and Silhouette began attending balls in the voguing categories for their house. Shadow also assisted in the preparations for his fellow member Ricky in the vogue category versus Damon Evangelista. Wesley is an actor who appears as Shadow Wintour in the FX series Pose’s Season Two episodes Worth It, Never Knew Love Like This Before, What Would Candy Do?, Love’s in Need of Love Today, Revelations, and In My Heels.
Shadow Khan, along with Silhouette, is the reigning King of Vogue, as well as a former member of the House of Wintour who has joined the House of Khan. Shadow and his dancing partner Silhouette gave a public performance at the Piers before being welcomed to the House of Wintour, led by Elektra. Accepting this invitation, he and Silhouette began attending balls in the voguing categories for their house.
Ballroom
Wesley started ballroom dancing as a teenager in the late 1990s, and ever since then, he has hosted and commented at balls in addition to competing regularly. His first experience voguing “in front of a big crowd” was in 2005 or 2006. He started emceeing balls in 2003. Wesley has been a part of several houses, such as the House of Evisu, the House of Latex (which he joined in 2000), and the House of Lanvin, where he was a father. The House of Basquiat, which made its premiere on the second season of Legendary in 2021, is founded by him and is named after him. He appeared at Washington, D.C.’s 2023 Capital Pride march alongside the House of Garçons. He is a ballroom legend who achieved icon status in 2018.
Career
In 2009, Wesley contended on the fourth time of America’s Best Dance Team as an individual from the gathering Vogue Development. In 2013, he showed up as an artist on Hit the Floor. In 2015, Wesley showed up in the film Enchantment Mike XXL, for which he additionally trained Channing Tatum in voguing. Sometime thereafter he was a group part in The Wiz Live! Wesley played Shadow Wintour (otherwise called Shadow Khan) in seasons two and three of Posture on FX. In 2020, he was declared as the host of the HBO Max dance hall rivalry series Amazing, and filled in as host and MC over the show’s three seasons. In 2022, he was highlighted in Billy Doorman’s exhibition at the BET Grants.
In 2013, Wesley was highlighted as an artist in the music video for Fergie’s melody “A Little Party Never Killed No one (All We Got)”. In 2015, he proceeded as a vogue artist and reporter for FKA Twigs’ show “Congregata”. Wesley was an artist for Rihanna’s 2016 Enemy of world visit and highlighted in Teyana Taylor’s 2018 K.T.S.E. visit. He likewise showed up in the music video for Taylor’s melody “Work this Pussy”.
Wesley is an individual from MikeQ’s name Qween Beat and was included on the track “Stroll” on its 2016 assortment Qweendom. In 2023, he was highlighted on the melody “Goliath Bird in a Man Suit” on the cast recording of the off-Broadway melodic Lewberger: The Wizard of Friendshi