Sahara Davenport

Education

After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance, he relocated to New York City, where he began performing regularly at many gay bars and nightclubs throughout the city.

Career

He was best known as a contestant on the second season of A native of Dallas, Davenport began his drag career while attending Southern Methodist University. Davenport has been seen on television on A&East Network"s 15 Films about Madonna, Voom HD"s Magnificent Obsessions, and on American Broadcasting Company"s daytime soap opera One Life to Live. He was featured in the pilot of Judge Karen as an angry Beyoncé impersonator who sues the paparazzi.

Davenport made his art film debut in Kalup Linzy"s video-performance piece "Melody Secretariat Maine Free," which was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Artist

He also appeared in the music videos "Girl Problems" by the group Girl Problems and "Gettin" Over You" by David Guetta and Chris Willis. Davenport joined the cast of the second season of in 2010.

He was pegged as "The Dancer" when in the first episode he had to "lipsynch for your life" against his former college classmate, Shangela Laquifa Wadley. In the fourth episode, Davenport gave a humorous impersonation of Whitney Houston in the Snatch Game challenge.

In the Wedding Dress episode, he was in the bottom two again, but remained safe because of his lipsynch performance to Martha Wash"s "Carry On".

Sahara was eliminated in the sixth episode for not conveying enough of a "rock "n" roll" attitude and being too much of a lady. Antoine died of heart failure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on October 1, 2012.

Achievements

• In the second episode, Davenport became a team leader when he and Pandora Boxx won the mini challenge. Sahara won the second episode elimination challenge by leading his team to earn the most money by pole dancing and selling Cherry Pie gift certificates on the streets of Los Los Angeles