Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Karen Elson, the Ghost Who Walks

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'."
You may be thinking, "who's Karen Elson?" but if you're a fan of the White Stripes then it's likely that you've already seen her.
I love her hair!
Indeed, she is Jack White's latest wife (he "separated" from his sister/wife Meg White a few years back... and that's a WHOLE other can of worms) but she also appeared in the White Stripes music video for "Blue Orchid"!
 

Karen just released her first album The Ghost Who Walks in 2010 and here are a couple samples of her sound. "The Ghost Who Walks" :

And my favorite, "100 Years from Now":

Elson has said: "The  title was a nickname that I had at school. It was one of the nicer nicknames I had for being tall, pale and a little bit haunted." And (conveniently :D) I've found a video that will work as her mini-bio:
 

3 comments:

  1. She's gorgeous! I like her music. White stripes rock too! (punny, muahah) I didn't know Meg and Jack divorced..

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  2. I agree! And all those kids that called her names must be eating their words now.

    Yeah, I was flabbergasted when I someone told me they were married! Here's what Wikipedia says:
    "A topic of intrigue has been the actual relationship between Jack and Meg White. In early interviews, the pair presented themselves as siblings, two of ten. However, the Detroit Free Press produced copies of both a marriage license and divorce certificate, confirming Jack and Meg's history as a married couple. Neither addresses the truth officially and over time, they have become less verbal about the origins of their relationship. Jack White has said, though, that siblings are "mated for life", thus such relationships distract less from the music. Jack mentions them being brother and sister in the documentary Under Great White Northern Lights. In the early 1990s, Meg White worked as a bartender at Memphis Smoke, a bar in downtown Royal Oak (a Detroit suburb), where she first met Jack, then still known under his original surname 'Gillis'. They were married on September 21, 1996 and were divorced on March 24, 2000. Jack took her last name."

    Here's the divorce certificate:
    http://www.gloriousnoise.com/?pg=white_stripes_divorced.php

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