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Welcome to The Carmen Electra Picture Pages.
This site truly contains only high quality scans of Carmen,
so you can stop searching for Carmen Electra pictures from
now on! For those new to the site, my philosophy on exactly
what constitutes 'high quality' is found here.
At the early age of 9, Carmen Electra (real
name Tara Patrick) began her climb to super-stardom when
she was chosen for the School for Creative and Performing
Arts. She began taking singing lessons and by her teenage
years, she was choreographing and performing musicals for
the school's theatrical ensemble. She also began rapping
and said her goal was "to go to Los Angeles and get
a record deal."
In 1987, at the age of 15, Tara moved to
Minneapolis, where her sister and half-sister lived. To
earn money, she did some modeling for Target department
stores. She was also known to be in Minneapolis during the
1990 filming of Prince's movie, Graffiti Bridge. In 1991,
Tara moved to Los Angeles, California, changed her name
to Carmen Electra, and in less than a week, met Prince.
"I'd been there a week when I went
to this club called Spice, where I was approached by a woman
who said she had this all-girl band that Prince was producing,
and I had the look they were after. But what was really
funny was that there was a Prince lookalike at the club
that night, and I thought she might have been talking about
him and it was all a joke."
In 1992, soon after meeting and auditioning
for Prince, she was signed to his Paisley Park Records label.
Prince took Carmen under his wing, describing her as "this
new girl out of Cincinnati." She was promoted with
ads in Rolling Stone and on MTV. However large the hype,
the success wasn't there.
After posing nude for Playboy in May of
1996, Carmen's career was revived on October 4, 1996 when
it was announced that she would take over from Jenny McCarthy
(also a Playboy veteran) as Chris Hardwick's co-host on
MTV's dating show Singled Out starting February 10, 1997,
for at least 65 episodes.
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