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Captivating Katkat

Filipino drag performer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ122903435
Source-derived summary

Captivating Katkat is the stage name of Katkat Dasalla, a Filipina drag performer and winner of season 2 of Drag Race Philippines.

Career

Captivating Katkat is a drag performer who has worked at O Bar in Pasig, as well as The One 690 Entertainment Bar in Manila. The Manila Bulletin has called her a "seasoned" drag performer, and Nylon Manila has described her as "one of the most prominent" drag queens in the Philippines.

Captivating Katkat was the winner of season 2 of Drag Race Philippines. She was one of the first three trans women to compete on the show, along with Bernie and M1ss Jade So. Captivating Katkat won two challenges, including the Snatch Game challenge (in which she impersonated politician Joy Belmonte) and the acting challenge. She placed in the bottom two of the branding challenge, which saw contestants create shampoo commercials. She lip-synced against Bernie to "The Power" by Ann Raniel, but both were saved from elimination. Captivating Katkat was a top four finalist, before winning.

Personal life

Dasalla is a trans woman.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Captivating Katkat” as filipino drag performer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Captivating, Katkat and Filipino.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 176-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-07-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Captivating, Katkat and Filipino providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q122903435. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Captivating Katkat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.