Biography
Karen Lee Orzołek, better known as Karen O, is the lead vocalist for the New York art punk band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She was born on November 22, 1978 in South Korea.
Karen O has been noted for her sense of fashion, although all of her stage costumes are designed by her friend, fashion designer Christian Joy. She is also well known for her outrageous antics during live shows. She is known to often spit water or beer, or sometimes grapes into the crowd, and has been seen humping the stage monitors, or suggestively playing with her microphone. Her on-stage antics have been compared to punk legends like Iggy Pop and Patti Smith.
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She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, in the Silver Lake neighborhood.
For the movie Jackass 2, Karen O collaborated with electronic artist Peaches and Johnny Knoxville to record a track entitled "Backass".
Karen was asked by Playboy to pose on their cover. She said on the subject, "If I see footage from our shows, I'm shocked by what I'm doing. But Playboy asked me about being on the cover. That's pretty insane. I may do it in the future." However during an interview with Ripple magazine in November 2006 Karen let slip that she had been the "star" of a pornographic film aged 18. She was quoted as saying that she was "tricked into it" by a former boyfriend, and that as a consequence a Playboy shoot was unlikely.
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