Lucky Diamond Rich

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Lucky Diamond Rich
Born 1971
New Zealand
Occupation performance artist, street performer
Known for being 100% tattooed
Website
http://www.luckyrich.com/index.htm

Lucky Diamond Rich (born 1971, New Zealand) is "the world's most tattooed person" (a title formerly held by Tom Leppard), and has tattoos covering his entire body, including the inside of his foreskin, mouth and ears. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.[1]

He is also a performance artist and street performer whose act includes sword-swallowing, unicycling and juggling.

Lucky Diamond Rich

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[edit] Inspiration and first tattoo

As a young boy, he read about and began to have recurring thoughts of the most tattooed men and women. It did not go much further than just a thought until he got his first tattoo, it was of a small juggling club on his hip.[2]

[edit] Other achievements

He is an accomplished sword-swallower. Along with the Space Cowboy (real name Chayne Hultgren) he was jointly the first person to perform a double-sword swallowing while suspended upside-down. [3]

He is credited as "Lucky Rich" on vocals for the 1998 5-track "Skin" EP by the band "Primitive Ghost". The lineup included Baby Lemonade (Vocals), Michael Sheridan (Guitar), FAB (Percussion), Bryan St. James (Programming) and Ollie Olsen (Programming). A video clip for the title track "Skin" was screened on ABC rage (TV program) 4 September 1998 [4]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Guinness World Records, Most Tattooed Person, http://www.guinessworldrecords.com/records/human_body/body_beautiful/most_tattooed_person.aspx, retrieved 2007-05-07 
  2. ^ brown, Thom, An Interview with Lucky Diamond Rich by Thom Green of Mantra, http://www.mantratattoo.com/features/luckyrich/interview2004.php, retrieved 2007-05-07 
  3. ^ http://www.swordswallow.com/records.php
  4. ^ Rage, ABC, ABCTV RAGE playlist 4 September 1998, http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/archive/1998/19980904.htm, retrieved 2007-08-26 

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