Carmen was born Tara Leigh Patrick but later changed her name when the
artist formerly known as Prince told her she looked like a Carmen
after she signed with his record company. Her last name also changed
and means a greek goddess. She was born on April 20, 1972 in White
Oak, Ohio near Cincinatti. At age five she entered in and won her
first dance contest. She went on to be in over 100 tap and ballet
contests. She attended the School for Creativity and Performing Arts
at age 9. She also went to Princeton High School in Sharonville. Click
here to go to my Betcha' Didn't Know This page about Carmen
Electra.Later on in her life she signed with Prince's music company
Paisley Park Label and became one of his Protege's. Her first album
was self-titled and she released a single Go-Go Dancer after many
delays. The album never took off because of problems with executives.
It was remixed and new tracks were added and finally released in July
of 1992. Her video had came out in March 1992.
After that she occasionally appeared as a dancer in Prince's Glam Slam
Clubs and also performed in front of the October 28 1996 MTV Rock N'
Jock B-Ball Jam audience.Then she appeared in the May 1996 Playboy
issue. She made a video called Cheerleaders for Playboy also. Then she
got her big break when just three weeks after auditioning for Singled
Out she was offered the job. On February 10 1997 she became Co-Host of
Singled Out. Since then she has been in many TV and Movie appearances
including Good Burger, Loveline, Baywatch, All That, Baywatch Nights
and of course Singled Out. Click here to go her Accomplishments
Page!She also had a relationship with one of the members of Cypress
Hill, B-Real. He was producing her second album appropriately titled,
Carmen Electra II.But after the break up who knows what happened to
the album. Click here to check out more news on Carmen Electra.
Now she's shooting a calender by Landmark due out at the end of 1997.
Can't wait for that one. She's also in the running to star in her own
network primetime show. What the theme will be is still unknown but
MTV Productions is testing her out in many different show genre's like
Sitcom, Sketch Comedy, Drama, Etc.