We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Chanel St Sin . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Chanel below.

Chanel , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you share a story with us from back when you were an intern or apprentice? Maybe it’s a story that illustrates an important lesson you learned or maybe it’s a just a story that makes you laugh (or cry)? Looking back at internships and apprenticeships can be interesting, because there is so much variety in people’s experiences – and often those experiences inform our own leadership style.

Wanting to be a performer takes a lot of skill risk, but mostly passion. You have to have a passion and I say that because you have to love what you do or you just wanna enjoy it that goes with any job. My journey started with classes and I wanted to learn from everybody that I possibly could that I saw as a hero in my eyes and I did research and I sought out my teachers and it probably was the best thing that I’ve ever done for myself.. I learned so much from these performers I learned history I learned execution of how to create an act I learned you don’t have to be the one with the most expensive costume. But you do have to have passion and what you do and for yourself. I learned movement and I learned how to listen to my body and I learned a lot about myself.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

So I got my start as Chanel St Sin as a kitten, which is a stage helper, (a bedazzled roadie as I call it). And it really was from watching a show and realizing that’s what I wanted to do. It was the most mesmerizing thing that I’ve ever been a part of or seen in my entire life. I fell in love with Burlesque. And truth be told it probably save me from myself because I had a poor body image. I was very self conscience and it really made me love myself and realize how beautiful I was. I’m very proud of the awards that I’ve won the people that I’ve come in contact with in the networking that I’ve been able to do. I’m also proud of the things that I’ve learned because I’ve been able to do my own shows and now that I am beating Cancer, I am hoping to have a monthly show full-time..

Have you ever had to pivot?

Covid really took us all my surprise, and I lost my venue during the course of Covid. I also learned that I had cancer and everything took a backseat to breast cancer. I think all of us all over the world and Burlesque had to pivot at this point and just wait for Covid to stop and I know I was lucky to have a photographer friend who helped me through the rows of not being able to create for stage, but I was able to create for camera and I started having a lot of fun getting published in magazines, and still using my creative juices to create themes for this new career path . I’ve always known that I still wanted to do Burlesque until I can’t do Burlesque anymore and now that I am surviving cancer I can’t wait to see where I go in Burlesque. I’ve rebranded myself where are used to be Chanel St Sn I’ve changed my stage name to Rue Bee D’Vil.

How’d you meet your business partner?

My business partner now is one of my best friends. I absolutely adore Valar DuBose I met her through her clothing company before Covid and then I realized after Covid but she was a performer and I got to graces stage with her during my come back. And we got to talking and decided that we had the same passion and the same drive and we created a show at the Key Houston on Main Street together.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Instagram.com/Ruebeedvil
• Facebook: Facebook.com/Thechanelstsin
• Other: Theruebeedvil TikTok

Image Credits
Bill Hunton Photography Unorthodox Artography Green Desert Productions