Carmen's
talents were evident when she was a child, as she was
to attend the School for Creative and Performing Arts
at only nine years old. In school, Carmen began taking
singing lessons and practicing her vocal talents. By her
teen years, she was performing in musicals (as a dancer)
and doing her own choreographies. Her ultimate ambition
was to go to Los Angeles and sign a record deal. By the
age of fifteen, Carmen was well on her way to realizing
her dream.
Carmen then
moved to Minneapolis, where she lived with her sister,
and worked as a clothes model for Target department
stores. After four years, Carmen moved to Los Angeles,
change her name, Tara Leigh Patrick to Carmen Electra,
and only one week after doing all this, Carmen ran into
musical talent, Prince.
Since Prince
liked Carmen's style, he signed her to a Paisley Park
Records label deal in 1992. Unfortunately, despite all
of Prince's efforts in helping Carmen by promoting her
and her new album, her music career failed miserably.
Her single Go-Go Dancer flopped miserably when it was
released. Three years later, Carmen had renewed her
image and appeared on the Nickelodeon show, All That.
She also posed for Playboy and did a video for them,
entitled Play boy Cheerleaders, and Carmen shows off
her "musical" talents by singing "2-4-6-8".
