Conchita Wurst grew up in the Colombian highlands surrounded by the sound of swinging powder puffs and the rustling of layers made out of delicate tulle. One day her mother, a popular actress, met by fate her father, Alfred of Knack and Wurst, an even more successful theatre director - and fell in love with him.Within that same year she gave birth to her first daughter Conchita, named after the great-grandmother BarbadaConchita (the Bearded). It soon became obvious that the small “Knackwurst” was determined to become someone great and successful.

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