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Jada Shada Hudson

barbadian-Canadian drag performer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ123115329 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jada Shada Hudson is the stage name of Dwight Giraud, a Barbadian-Canadian drag performer who competed on season 3 of Canada's Drag Race and season 1 of Canada's Drag Race All Stars.

Career

Jada Shada Hudson is a drag performer. She has performed at drag shows in Toronto.

Jada Shada Hudson competed on season 3 of Canada's Drag Race, ultimately placing as runner-up. She impersonated Saucy Santana for the Snatch Game challenge. Before the final episode, Jada Shada Hudson had won one challenge and placed in the bottom twice. She has also appeared in the CBC Gem web series Queens.

Personal life

Giraud was raised in Bridgetown, Barbados. He relocated to Canada in 2009.

Editorial summary

“Jada Shada Hudson” enters the record as barbadian-Canadian drag performer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jada, Shada and Hudson can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jada, Shada and Hudson.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jada Shada Hudson” 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.