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  CBC - Found Apr. 9, 2009 Kat Von D started tattooing when she was fourteen. Now she's a celebrity tattooist with her own business in Los Angeles and a hit TV show, LA Ink.

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  Toronto Sun - Found Apr. 17, 2009 Kat von D. (HO) With paparazzi lurking around every corner, celebrity trysts can be tricky.

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  Edmonton Sun - Found Apr. 17, 2009 ... like when we're doing it he's like, 'I can't stand to look at it,'' says the heavily-inked Kat von D when asked how her rock-star boyfriend...

• Kat von D not squeamish about love

  London Free Press - Found Apr. 17, 2009 ... like when we?re doing it he?s like, ?I can?t stand to look at it,?? says the heavily-inked Kat von D when asked how her rock-star...

• Kat von D not squeamish about love

  Ottawa Sun - Found Apr. 17, 2009 Kat von D. (HO) With paparazzi lurking around every corner, celebrity trysts can be tricky.

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  MovieWeb - Found Jun. 28, 2009 Like Kat Von D on TLC's LA Ink, Inked's Thomas Pendleton is a legitimate sex symbol -- and a master tattoo artist.

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  Echo Magazine - Found Jun. 26, 2009 Reality Vs. Reality T.V. Kat von D is a woman and she is a tattoo artist. This much can be said unequivocally. Tattoos Muscle In - Hartford Courant Explore All

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• If It’s Broke, Decorate It

  Entrepreneur.com - Found Jun. 24, 2009 Add a whole sheet of decals, and you can channel Kat Von D while you heal.

• Portrait tattoos in vogue

  Hindustan Times - Found Jun. 22, 2009 The best known portrait artist in the world is 27-year-old Los Angeles-based Kat Von D, who also runs a show called 'LA Ink'. Explore All

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• Portraits in vogue among Indian tattoo lovers

  Mangalorean - Found Jun. 23, 2009 The best known portrait artist in the world is 27-year-old Los Angeles-based Kat Von D, who also runs a show called 'LA Ink'.

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Kat Von D
Born	Katherine von Drachenberg March 8, 1982 (1982-03-08) (age 27) Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Other names	Katherine Drachenberg ; Kat von D
Occupation	Tattoo artist

Kat Von D (born Katherine von Drachenberg on March 8, 1982 in Monterrey, Mexico) is an Argentine-German-Mexican American tattoo artist and television personality. She is best known for her work as a featured tattoo artist on the TLC reality television show Miami Ink. A subsequent TLC series starring Von D, LA Ink, premiered August 7, 2007 in the United States and November 11, 2007 in the UK.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Celebrity Fans 3 Musical tastes 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Kat Von D was born in Mexico to Argentinean parents of Italian and German descent. She moved to Los Angeles at age 4 and grew up in the Inland Empire in Southern California. She credits the prominent Latino culture of Los Angeles as being a major influence in her art and style.¹

Kat owns her own make-up line on Sephora, and is the creator of the Musink festival. One of her eyeshadow colours is named, "Orbi" in her True Romance Eyeshadow Palette in Ludwig. She has a book compiling her artworks and tattoos, which was released in January 2009, called "High Voltage Tattoo". The book traces von D's career as an artist, from early childhood influences to recent work, along with examples of what inspires her, information about the show and her shop, her sketches, and personal tattoos. The book goes deep into tattoo process and culture: readers can see up close the pigments, the tools, and the making of complex, even collaborative, tattoos. In a January 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell, von D said about the book: "It's not an autobiography, you know, 'cause I'm too young to do that. But this is just kind of like a picture driven outline of my career as an artist. So, you see everything from my drawings when I was six to tattoos that have never before been seen."² Kat married fellow tattoo artist Oliver Peck in 2003, but divorced in 2007. Since then she's dated a number of notable rockers including Whitestarr drummer, Alex “Orbi” Orbison. Kat's current best-selling book "High Voltage Tattoo" (published by Harper Collins) has a foreword by Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx, whom she is currently dating (since 2008), which she acknowledged in an April 2009 interview on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Celebrity Fans

Kat Von D was immortalized in the Eagles of Death Metal song "High Voltage", which was named after her shop and is featured on their third album "Heart On". In an interview³, Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes said, "I wrote that for Kat Von D, because that girl's bad ass. I was spinning one night, Hollywood rolling, it was like five in the morning, she was still at her shop with a couple of people, her High Voltage shop, and I came rolling in, we had fun. I'm home by seven in the morning and I'm sitting thinking what a rad night that was. I love this job. Bomb, 'High Voltage', and then it came out".

Musical tastes

Von D was classically trained in piano beginning at age 6, and began listening to Misfits, The Ramones, and other punk rock at age 12.⁴ She particularly appreciates Ludwig van Beethoven and Space Station Wagon.⁴ Von D has tattooed herself with the emblems of the bands HIM, Turbonegro, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Slayer, and "Slutallica", a modified Metallica logo.⁴

References

External links

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• Kat Von D Official Website
• Kat Von D at the Internet Movie Database
• Kat Von D at TV.com
• Kat Von D at MySpace
• Kat Von D Interview at PR.com
• Kat Von D at Highvoltagetattoo.com
• Kat Von D Inked Mag interview
• "Marked sensation". latimes.com (LA Times). 2008-01-06. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/08/entertainment/et-laink8. Retrieved on 2008-06-03. 
• Q&A with Kat Von D discussing reality TV, her favorite artists and what's on her iPod
• Kat Von D podcast interview at Juliland.com

Persondata
NAME	D, Kat Von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Drachenberg, Katherine von
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Tattoo artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH