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Carmen Electra

The name sounds exotic and the lady herself doesn't disappoint .

A staple component of the celebrity and gossip mags, Carmen Electra has a personality and body not easily forgotten .

She was born Tara Leigh PATRICK on April 20th , 1972 in White Oak, near Cincinnati ,Ohio , USA.

From the age of 5 she was taking dance classes and she enrolled at the School for Creative and Performing Arts at the age of 9 .

Tara relocated to Minneapolis ,where she lived with her sister and made a living as a model for Target department stores .

In 1990 she moved to Los Angeles.

While dancing in an L.A. nightclub she caught the eye of a talent scout and landed an audition with the hugely successful pop singer Prince .

The Music of Carmen Electra.

Prince ,who was looking to assemble an all-girl rap group for his record label ,auditioned Tara .

She didn't land that job, but Prince liked her so much that he wrote a song for her for a demo album and signed her to his record label , Paisley Park Records.

Prince told her she looked like Carmen from Bizet's Opera of the same name and re named her ,combining it with Electra for her last name after a goddess,from the Greek tragedy ,Sophocles.

And so , Carmen Electra was born.

She released a single called "Go-Go Dancer" , which failed miserably. Getting very little air time. And so ,despite all of Prince's efforts in helping Carmen by promoting her and her new album , Carmen's career as a pop princess was over .almost as soon as it had started ,

Carmen Electra re emerged in 1997 when she was picked as a host of MTV's ' Singled Out ' .

She also gained a world wide audience in the role of Lani McKenzie on the TV series ,Baywatch ,replacing a part vacated by Pamela Anderson .

She played in that show for the 1997 and 1998 series .

By 1998 Carmen Electra was a regular fixture on the covers and in photo layouts of the "laddie" magazines such as Maxim, Stuff and FHM.

From Small Screen to BIG Screen .

Carmen Electra appeared in the slow burner big hit of 2000 ' Scary Movie ' , where she played the lingerie-clad slasher victim , Drew Decker .

Carmen continued with film work: in 2004 she appeared in the Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson comedy, Starsky & Hutch, and lent her voice to the animated comedy, Lil' Pimp. . 2006 produced a return performance for her in Scary Movie 4 .

Carmen Electra is also into 'fitness' video's and dvd's.

You can check out Carmen Electra in "Aerobic Striptease," "Fit To Strip", "Advanced Aerobic Striptease," and "The Lap Dance & Hip Hop."

Enjoy!

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Article Published: Monday 8th January 2007