{"id":17679,"date":"2012-10-07T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=17679"},"modified":"2012-10-07T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:02:18","slug":"harlem-entertainer-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=17679","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Entertainer Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/saharadavenport-231x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17685 alignright\" title=\"saharadavenport-231x300\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/saharadavenport-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17683 alignright\" title=\"Manila Luzom, Sahara Davenport\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/600-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were saddened to hear that Sahara Davenport, one of the more popular contestants on Season 2 of LOGO channel&#8217;s drag queen competition show <em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race, <\/em>and a staple performer at bars and clubs in the city, passed away last week at the young age of 27 from heart failure. A classically trained dancer, Sahara &#8211;who&#8217;s real name was Antoine Ashley&#8211; and his boyfriend Karl Westerburg who was the runner-up on Season 3 and goes by the name Manila Luzon were longtime residents of Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>LOGO will dedicate the first episode of <em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars <\/em>to Sahara&#8217;s memory on October 22nd and a public memorial including tribute performances by Sahara&#8217;s industry friends and entertainers is planned for Friday, November 2, at XL Nightclub in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace, Sahara.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Duz-TN26M0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica;\"><br style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica;\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were saddened to hear that Sahara Davenport, one of the more popular contestants on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[384,124718155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17679"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17697,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions\/17697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}