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Introducing Carmen Electra - Profile and Photos
Profile: Carmen Electra
Carmen was born April 20, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carmen is a celebrity performer, singer, and dancer. Growing up in White Oak, Ohio, at the age of nine, she was selected for the School for Creative and Performing Arts. While studying there, she took singing lessons, and by her teenage years, she was dancing in musicals and doing her own choreographing for the school's theater. Carmen's goal was to eventually make it out to Los Angeles and get a recording contract. Carmen moved to Minneapolis to stay with her sisters, and began modeling for the Target department stores. Four years later, she moved to L.A., and changed her name to Carmen Electra. Soon, after her arival in LA, she met the celebrity star performer known as Prince. For all practical purposes, she had just been discovered. In 1992, after auditioning for Prince, Carmen was signed to his Paisley Park Records label. Despite the fact that Prince took her under his wing, her first album was a dud. Carmen reinvented herself and appeared on the Nickelodeon show, "ALL THAT". In March of 1996, Carmen took a huge step forward and posed nude for Playboy. She also performed in a video for Playboy, "Playboy Cheerleaders", in which she sings the show stopper, "2-4-6-8". In 1996, Carmen hosted MTV's Loveline, and following this performance, on October 4, 1996, Lisa Berger, MTV's senior vice president announced that Carmen had been selected to replace Jenny McCarthy on MTV's innovative show, "Singled Out". Carmen, now a red hot sexy celebrity, signed on to replace Pamela Anderson on Baywatch. Carmen has also appeared in a comic book, appeared as a national spokesperson for Budweiser and recently filmed a small role in the independent feature "Dust and Stardust", a movie about making it in Hollywood.
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