Electra was born near Cincinnati, in Sharonville, Ohio, as Tara Leigh Patrick to a family of Irish, German, and Native American (Cherokee) descent. She attended Princeton High School for four years in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati and very briefly Walnut Hills High School.

In spite of the superficial similarity in names, she is not related to adult film actress Tera Patrick, who was born Linda Hopkins Shapiro.

After moving to California, she met singer Prince (a...