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Charmane was born in the Philippines
but moved to California with her family at age two. She grew up in San
Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento, where she went to Natomas High
School. She has seven brothers and one sister. Charmane became a nude
model soon after turning 18 and made her adult film debut in 1998 but left
four years later to manage a night club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her
ex-boyfriend. She recalls that managing the night club was "20 times
harder" than adult films. When not working long hours at the night club,
she managed to do single girl photo-shoots. Charmane has also worked as a
Nordstrom sales girl. Charmane returned to film in 2003 and promptly
opened up a website. Charmane mainly performs boy/girl and girl/girl
scenes but rarely does boy/girl/boy scenes indicating that they were "too
much". She has become one of the top Asian performers in adult film. Like
many performers she dances in strip clubs and made her debut in December
2004 at Club Paradise in Honolulu, Hawaii with Teanna Kai. Her sister was
also in adult film briefly under the name Leah Santiago. As a hobby, she
collects sculptures and paintings, and aims to own an art gallery someday.
As of 2005, she is learning to be a disc jockey. Her contacts with
professional DJs and her background owning a night club have contributed
to this hobby. As a first generation Filipino-American, she understands
Tagalog, although she can barely speak it. Charmane also poses for more
niche fetish pictorials and videos, including those focusing on fishnet
stockings, high heels and smoking. More recently, she has done work as an
import model at various car shows. Charmane is currently a host, along
with Andrea Lowell, of the mobisode series Bikini Cocktail. She was also
an extra in the music video "Bebot" by the Black Eyed Peas. She will
appear (along with porn stars Justine Joli, Charlotte Stokely, Erika
Vution, and Stacey Adams) in the 2009 blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite.
She is married to Kenneth Austin, Who is from Trenton, New Jersey. Kenneth
works in Interactive Marketing. |
