Karen Elson

Fashion spread, runway and music video star Karen Elson started working as a cabaret star and backup singer (she contributed vocals to Robert Plant's "Last Time I Saw Her," among other things) in the early '00s, earning a significant amount of praise for her vocal skills. She wrote most of the material for her debut album in secret, hiding what she was doing from her then-husband, Jack White. The White Stripes musical mastermind went on to produce the critically acclaimed album, The Ghost Who Walks, which was released in 2010.