Carmit Bachar (born September 4, 1974) is an American singer/dancer of the modern burlesque pop group, The Pussycat Dolls. Born in Los Angeles, California, with a cleft lip/palate, she is of Israeli/Chinese and Dutch/Indonesian descent and comes from a family of entertainers. Her mother was a dance teacher and her father danced and even once worked with Marcel Marceau.
She competed internationally as a rhythmic gymnast for 10 years, and placed 5th in the Olympic trials in 1992, she even went on to compete in the Gymnastics World Championships. During her career competing on the National Team, she attended Hamilton Academy of Music in Los Angeles, studying music, dance, and also piano and viola. She joined The Pussycat Dolls in 1995, two years after they were first formed by Robin Antin as burlesque troupe.
She has been a member of the Dolls longer than any other performer. Most of the current members, including lead singer Nicole Kea, were cast by Antin in 2002 or 2003, when the group was being transformed into pop recording artists. Bachar has also appeared in several films.
She was in 13 Going on 30, Along Came Polly, The Scorpion King and appeared in 2003's Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle with The Pussycat Dolls. As a freelance dancer she has toured or appeared live with several rock/pop acts. In 1999, she was the "Livin' La Vida Loca" girl in Ricky Martin's world tour.
In 2000 No Doubt's world tour, and appears on stage with Gwen Stefani during "Bathwater" in No Doubt's DVD Rock Steady Live. In 2004 she was a back-up dancer for Janet Jackson during the infamous peek-a-boo Superbowl half-time show. In 2003/2004 she was a dancer for Beyoncé.
She appears in Beyoncé's music videos "Crazy In Love" and "Baby Boy". She was in her tour and 2004 DVD Beyoncé Live at Wembley. In 2006, she is touring with the Dolls in support of their multi-million selling album PCD.
* Carmit loves the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the show In Living Color. * She lists some of her special skills as bungee jumping, rhythmic gymnastics, and conga drums. * Carmit is currently trying to start a non-profit organization for children born with a cleft lip/palate called "Smile With Me.
" * Carmit help to found a "multi-genre cabaret" in 2001 called "The Zodiac Show". Originally a recurring party in a photo studio, "Freedom" (as it was first called) soon grew too large for a house party. Carmit and friends soon took "Freedom" to the next level and started booking events with the dancers who came to the party.
"The Zodiac Party" now runs a sexual cabaret show on a regular basis. Ashley Roberts (born 14 September 1981) is an American singer/dancer in the modern burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls, and a glamour model. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
She began dancing at the age of three, and singing at the age of eight. Her father was a drummer who played for the Mamas and the Papas. He later became a car dealer.
Her mother was a Pilates instructor. During high school summer breaks she had travelled to the West Coast to study modern dance. After high school she moved permanently to Los Angeles.
She appeared in TV commercials and a Counting Crows video. Within six months of her move she was also a Pussycat Doll. Her nickname in the band was "barbie doll", but realizing that there already was a "barbie doll", changed it to "angel doll".
Noting that when she sings she has a Marilyn Monroe-type voice, she says her onstage character is "flirtatious but innocent. She's a fun free spirit. I guess I'm 'the blonde' in the group but," she adds with a smile, "it ain't natural
Scherzinger was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Filipino father and a Hawaiian/Russian mother and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky with stepfather Gary Scherzinger, mother Rosemary and sister Ke'ala.
There she began her life as a performer, attending the Youth Performing Arts School at duPont Manual High School and performing with Actors Theatre of Louisville. Scherzinger majored in theater arts at Wright State University, but put her studies on hold in 1999 to sing backing vocals for the rock band Days of the New. In 2001 she competed in the premiere season of The WB's television show Popstars, on which she earned a spot in the all-girl pop group Eden's Crush.
The group's 2001 single "Get Over Yourself" peaked at #1 in sales and hit the top five on Billboard Hot 100. "Love This Way" was the second single chosen from the Popstars album; however, their record company folded and the group disbanded. In 2003, following her stint with Eden's Crush, Scherzinger joined The Pussycat Dolls burlesque troupe, who were being re-cast as recording artists.
She had first seen them performing on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2002, where Carmen Electra sang "Big Spender" from the musical Sweet Charity. In 2006 Scherzinger said "It caught my eye because I'd played Velma Kelly in Chicago in college. The Pussycat Dolls now have world-wide status as a popular singing group; their Billboard top five hits include "Don't Cha" and "Stickwitu".
The album PCD went platinum in 2006. Scherzinger is the only group member with a songwriting credit on the album. She has also done background vocals for Days of the New, Will Smith, and Shaggy.
Jessica Sutta (b. 15 May 1982) is an American dancer, singer and actress, best known as a member of the successful pop group The Pussycat Dolls. Born in Miami, Florida, of Irish-Japanese-Russian-Polish and Catholic-Jewish heritage, Sutta started dance classes at the age of three.
She went to the New World School of the Arts at age fourteen to study dance. She suffered an injury to both knees and switched to theater studies, before finally returning to dance. She joined the Miami Heat dance team in 1999 and became captain in 2001.
She also acted in the Swedish TV soap opera Ocean Ave. , which is shot in Florida. In 2002 Sutta moved to Los Angeles, and as a freelance dancer appeared in music videos for Will Smith, Craig David and Gloria Estefan, among others.
She came to the attention of choreographer Robin Antin who cast her in the re-vamped Pussycat Dolls in 2002. Subsequently, the Dolls' recordings have sold millions worldwide and as of 2006 the group are touring Europe She made her feature film debut in the 2003 film Chasing Papi; despite her Filipino and Russian ancestry, she played the role of "Miss Puerto Rico". She also appeared on the television shows My Wife and Kids and Half Half,and had an extra position in the movie Love Don't Cost a Thing.
Scherzinger was once engaged to Nick Hexum, the lead singer of the popular alternative rock band 311. Their 2002 hit single "Amber" was written for Scherzinger. In 2006, she is touring with The Pussycat Dolls and has plans to record a solo CD.
Some reports claim she will leave the group, while others say she will alternate her solo career with her role in the Dolls. A solo song, "Steam," was 'leaked' in May of 2006. It was produced by B.
Cox
Melody Thornton (born September 28, 1984) is an American singer/dancer in the modern burlesque pop group The Pussycat Dolls. Melody was born in Phoenix, Arizona to a Mexican mother and an African-American father. Her talent was first discovered at an elementary school talent show when she sang "Without You".
She left High school and saw the Pussycat Dolls on MTV and heard they were auditioning for a new band member. Melody went along to the audition and made sure she was noticed and was welcomed aboard in December 2003. Her powerful vocals have been compared to Christina Aguilera
Kimberly Wyatt is an American singer/dancer of the modern burlesque pop group, The Pussycat Dolls.
Her life is considered quite inspiring by many. Born in Warrensburg, MO, a tiny farm town near Kansas City, MO. Her father is a trucker and her mother goes on the road with him.
Having danced since she was seven, by the time Wyatt was 14 she was earning scholarships to study in New York each summer, from the Joffrey Ballet to the Broadway Dance Center. Graduating high school at 17, she promptly flew to Las Vegas to audition for cruise ship and casino shows. Landing a revue on Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas, then the largest cruise ship in the world, she was able to visit most of Southern Europe.
In 2001, she moved to L.A., despite an offer from the Hubbard St.
Dance Co. in Chicago. "All I knew was that L.
A. is where dancers got jobs and L.A.
was the dot MapQuest led to. My parents thought, 'Oh my God, what is she going to turn into out there?'" In 2003, Antin was the choreographer for a video for Nick Lachey's solo album when she met Wyatt.
Antin asked her that night to join The Pussycat Dolls. "I had only seen a poster for them," Wyatt recalls. "I remember falling in love with the girls.
Not many acts let you be sexy and still be about girl power.""Small town Middle America is different from the coasts," she says, "and all the girls come from big cities. I have a different perspective.
They love my stories about towns where the fancy clothing store is Wal-Mart." Down-home Southern girl Kimberly Wyatt also happens to be, according to Robin Antin, "the sexiest dancer I have ever seen in my life." Says Wyatt, "I'm a lot shyer than most of the girls, but my personality onstage is full-out.
I really go for it." All the information here was inspired by the biographical text in the official´s PCD web site, some of the links which can give some further information about this issue are placed underneath
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