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Voguecaught up with model-turned-musician Karen Elson and her husband, White Stripes guitarist Jack White to talk about Elson's debut album "The Ghost Who Walks."

Although Elson was no stranger to the public eye--and had a deep love of music since her youth--she still suffered from intense stage fright at her first-ever solo performance at SXSW in Texas.

Elson describes the confab as "like London, New York, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks all put together, with every musician, band, act, record label, manager, whatever--they're all there.

So it's quite daunting, to be honest, and I was terrified because I thought, God, now I've really got to make this legitimate.

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I felt like they were all sitting in the audience thinking, Come on, model, sing." Still, she finds performing exhilarating. "As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to