Biography of vanity 6
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Vanity (singer)
Canadian singer, model and actress (1959–2016)
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Vanity in 1984 | |
| Born | Denise Katherine Matthews (1959-01-04)January 4, 1959 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | February 15, 2016(2016-02-15) (aged 57) Fremont, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Denise Matthews-Smith, D. D. Winters |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, model, actress |
| Years active | 1977–1993 |
| Spouse | Anthony Smith (m. 1995; div. 1996) |
| Partner(s) | Prince (1982–1983) Nikki Sixx (1986–1988) |
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| Genres | |
| Instrument | Vocals |
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Denise Katherine Matthews (January 4, 1959 – February 15, 2016), known professionally as Vanity, was a Canadian singer, model, and actress. Known for her image as a sex symbol in the 1980s, she became an evangelist and renounced her career as Vanity in the 1990s.[1]
Vanity was the lead singer of the female trio Vanity 6, w
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As beautiful as the night sky, full of twinkling stars, headstrong, charismatic, mysterious and the original ‘’nasty girl’’, today I’m going to talk to you about the original Prince girl: Vanity.
Born as Denise Katrina Matthews in 1959, Vanity developed an interest in modelling in her early teenage years. She participated in beauty contests, competed for Miss Canada and even won the Miss Niagara Hospitality title in 1977. However, just being in beauty contest and having a modelling career only doing photo shoots and commercials wasn’t enough for Vanity and so she moved to New York when she was only 17 years old to pursue a career in acting, modelling on a bigger scale and music.
The first movie Vanity ever appeared in was a horror movie called ‘’Terror Train’’ and later on she was the leading actress in a B-movie called ‘’Tanya’s Island’’. Vanity’s fame began to rise and then, in the early 80s, she’d meet someone who would play a big role in her life. That’s where our story be
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Vanity 6
American musical group
Vanity 6 was an American female vocal trio that gained popularity in the early 1980s. They were protégées of musician Prince. Led bygd singer Vanity, they are known for their song "Nasty Girl".[6] Vanity left in 1983 and the band was reformed as Apollonia 6.
History
[edit]Formation
[edit]In 1981, Prince, himself a rising musical star, suggested that Susan Moonsie and her sister Loreen, along with Cavallo, Ruffalo & Fargnoli employee Jamie Shoop form a girl group that would be called the Hookers. Prince's vision was that the three women would perform in lingerie and sing sensual songs with lyrics about sex, romance, and fantasy.[8] Later, musician Rick James claimed that Prince had stolen the idea for creating a sexy trio in negligees who sang about love, pain, money, and power from him while Prince was the opening act on James's tour in 1980.[9][10] Set designer Roy Bennett's wife Brenda Bennett,