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23 Facts About Lo Carmen
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Lo Carmen was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised amongst its 1970s music and art community, which included Bon Scott and Robyn Archer.
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Lo Carmen is the daughter of rock-jazz-blues pianist Peter Head, member of prog rockers Headband and founder of bohemian country music collective The Mount Lofty Rangers, and Mouse, a textile artist and former film and television seamstress.
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Lo Carmen performed her first original song publicly aged 9, accompanied by her father.
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Lo Carmen told Sunday Life in 2022 'I spent a lot of my childhood sleeping, or reading a book, beneath his piano at gigs I insisted on accompanying him to'.
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The family moved to Sydney's red light district King's Cross and Lo Carmen attended a small alternative high school, dropping out after completing Year 10.
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Lo Carmen's mother made the wedding dress in Muriel's Wedding and Chrissy Amphlett's iconic costumes.
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Lo Carmen cites both Amphlett and Saddington, a close family friend, as major influences.
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Lo Carmen was cast as the "wild and haunted" Freya Olson in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke after the director met her in the pizza bar where she worked, aged sixteen.
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Lo Carmen was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award for her role as Freya, 'arguably one of Australian cinema's most finely developed female characters, evoking the subtle shades of a burgeoning womanliness.
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Lo Carmen told Russh 'With film, you have no power, you just try your best to make somebody else's vision come to life.
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In 1991, Lo Carmen formed 12 piece country band, The Honky Tonk Angels, with Justine Clarke.
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Lo Carmen then formed 'slo-mo disco' duo The Charismatics with Ratcat's Simon Day, where she played bass and sang.
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Lo Carmen played guitar in Day's band 51 Monday, along with Nic Dalton and Alison Galloway.
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In 2000, Lo Carmen formed Slow Hand, an 'obscure country soul covers' band.
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Lo Carmen began focusing on a career as a solo singer-songwriter in 2001 and Slow Hand disbanded in 2002 after releasing a live album on CD only.
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Lo Carmen's bedroom recorded debut solo album Born Funky Born Free was released in 2001, with contributions from Simon Day and James Cruickshank.
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In 2013, Lo Carmen released the album The Apple Don't Fall Far from the Tree, a collaboration with her father Peter Head.
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Lo Carmen has toured and opened shows for Kevin Morby, Gareth Liddiard, Kim Salmon, Eilen Jewell, Magnolia Electric Company, Mess Hall, Paul Kelly, Dirty Three, Renee Geyer and The Secret Sisters in Australia as well as Mick Harvey and Beasts of Bourbon in Europe.
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Lo Carmen continues to periodically perform shows and release music with her father, who often guests on her albums.
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Lo Carmen married actor Aden Young in Zebulon, Georgia, in 2014, after a 10-year relationship.
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Lo Carmen co-composed the score for Young's short film The Rose of BaZiz and appeared in it.
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Lo Carmen has written Loose Connections, a weekly newsletter featuring music and culture essays and recommendations since 2021.