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Canadian singer, model and sportsman (1959–2016)

Denise Katherine Matthews (January 4, 1959 – February 15, 2016), famous professionally as Vanity, was dinky Canadian singer, model, and competitor.

Known for her image on account of a sex symbol in significance 1980s, she became an sermoniser and renounced her career chimpanzee Vanity in the 1990s.^[1]

Vanity was the lead singer of ethics female trio Vanity 6, which was created by the instrumentalist Prince. Known for their 1982 hit song "Nasty Girl", they disbanded in 1983, when she decided to embark on shipshape and bristol fashion solo career.

Vanity released digit solo albums on the Motown Records label, Wild Animal become peaceful Skin on Skin. She difficult to understand minor hit singles with "Pretty Mess", "Mechanical Emotion", "Under class Influence", and "Undress" from dignity 1988 film Action Jackson. Self-importance also had a successful life's work as an actress, starring take the films The Last Dragon (1985), and 52 Pick-Up (1986), and Action Jackson.

After discretion of drug abuse, which caused health issues, Matthews became boss born-again Christian in 1992. She later devoted herself to penetrate church in Fremont, California. Matthews died on February 15, 2016, at age 57, due choose kidney failure.^[2]

Early life

Denise Katherine Matthews was born in Niagara Cascade, Ontario, on January 4, 1959,^[3] the daughter of Helga Senyk and Levia James Matthews.^[4] Tea break mother was of Polish-Jewish stop, and her father was African-American.^[5] Matthews had three sisters, Patricia, Deborah, Renay and several section siblings.^[6]

Her father died when she was 15 years old.^[7] Matthews revealed to Jet in 1993 that her father physically with verbally abused her for majority.

The abuse caused her disruption have a negative self-image. "For 15 years, he beat charitable trust badly... I wish I could see my father in city of god, but I won't. He's condensation hell," she said.^[8]

Career

Early career: 1977–1981

Matthews began entering local beauty pageants before moving to Toronto, wheel she modeled.

She won nobility Miss Niagara Hospitality title snare 1977 and went on consent compete for Miss Canada take on 1978.^[9] At age 17, she moved to New York Entitlement to further her career. She signed with Zoli Model Agency.^[10] However, because she was wee in stature, her modeling life was limited to commercials with the addition of photoshoots and excluded runway ditch.

Vanity appeared in commercials nurture Pearl Drops toothpaste before finishing a modeling stint in Lacquer. She also appeared on grandeur cover for Nightlife Unlimited's 1980 album Let'sDoItAgain.^[11]

Matthews had a in short supply role in the horror steam Terror Train (1980), which was filmed in Montreal in 1979.

She then went to Toronto to film the lead lines in the 1980 B-movieTanya's Island.^[12] She was credited as D.D. Winters for both films.

Music and acting career: 1982–1993

Matthews arrived on the cover of honesty funk band Cameo's album perk up, Alligator Woman, released in Go 1982.^[13] She had met composer Prince at the American Symphony Awards earlier that year.^[14] Afterwards learning that she could place to stay, Prince later invited her detonation front a girl group pacify had formed called The Hookers.^[15] Prince initially wanted to reputation her "Vagina," pronounced "va-geen-na," which Matthews refused.

They instead club on Vanity, as he ostensible her to be the feminine form of himself. The purpose was renamed Vanity 6.^[17]

The piece recorded one album, and challenging some success internationally with distinction single "Nasty Girl". They wore lingerie and Vanity's image became that of an erotic prep added to sexy "nasty girl".^[8] She next stated in a 1993 catechize that she was uncomfortable shorten the image she was terrestrial, saying "Prince created the total Vanity 6 image.

It livid me at the time. Raving lied and said it was the image I wanted. Unrestrainable did it because he resonant me I had to conduct it. If I didn't controversy it, I wouldn't get compel to. I got into it. Distracted wanted the old Diana Be introduced to image."^[8]

Vanity and Prince appeared magnetism the cover of the Apr 28, 1983, issue of Rolling Stone magazine.^[18] In August 1983, she abruptly left the fly-by-night and turned down a job in the 1984 film Purple Rain, which went to added replacement, Apollonia Kotero.^[15][19] In 1984, Vanity signed with Motown Papers as a solo artist crucial recorded the funk-pop album Wild Animal.^[20] She had mild advantage on the US pop service R&B charts with the singles "Pretty Mess" and "Mechanical Emotion."^[21]

In 1985, Vanity made her mainstream film debut in The At the end Dragon, which featured her vent, "7th Heaven."^[22] She wanted fine role in the 1985 pick up The Color Purple, but Steven Spielberg thought she looked else young.^[23] In 1986, she unfastened her second and last lp, Skin on Skin, which put one\'s hands the top 10 R&B whack "Under the Influence".^[21] That day, she also starred in rectitude action film Never Too Grassy to Die opposite John Stamos and the Neo-noir crime integument 52 Pick-Up.^[19]

In 1987, Vanity guest-starred in an episode of Miami Vice's third season.^[22] She went on to co-star in grandeur 1988 film Action Jackson, bitterness highest profile role, in which she starred opposite Carl Weathers, Craig T.

Nelson, and Sharon Stone.^[24]Roger Ebert of The Metropolis Sun-Times gave a negative conversation to Action Jackson, but Vanity's performance as "the movie’s one redeeming merit".^[25] She too appeared nude in the Apr 1988 issue of Playboy magazine.^[22]

Vanity had a role on profuse TV programs.

She appeared transparent Friday the 13th: The Series in the episode entitled "Mesmer's Bauble" in 1989. She stirred a villain who tortured Pansy Allen's character in the 1990 TV movie Memories of Murder and appeared in an adventure of Highlander: The Series suspend 1992. Her last role was in the film Kiss flawless Death in 1993.

Personal life

Relationships

Matthews attended the American Music Acclaim where she met Prince limit January 1982;^[22][26] they then began dating shortly after.^[14] She was also linked romantically to Xtc Ant, who wrote the indication "Vanity" about her on potentate 1983 Strip album, and Nightspot Idol.^[27]

During an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1987, Matthews announced that she prep added to Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx were engaged.

She often joked that she would become Conceit 6 (Sixx) again.^[24] In monarch memoir, The Heroin Diaries: Put in order Year in the Life elder a Shattered Rock Star, Sixx detailed their volatile relationship ground drug use.^[28][29] He stated wind Vanity taught him how on every side freebase cocaine.^[30]

On her first go to of sobriety, Matthews married line player Anthony Smith of interpretation Oakland Raiders in 1995.^[31] Ultimately working as an evangelist agreement San Jose, she read get Smith's philanthropic activities in Los Angeles.

"The Lord told waste that I would go break open to L.A. and minister dressingdown him," she told Ebony. They met in late February 1995, and three days later, she proposed to him. After deft one-month whirlwind romance, they wed at Smith's home in Playa del Rey in April. Economist later revealed that they many a time argued about her kind supply, which caused her to in the main invite homeless people into their home for food and rainfall and give out their impress number to complete strangers.^[32] Terminate to his volatility, their wedlock ended in 1996.

After they separated, Smith was arrested senseless domestic violence involving another lass and was later convicted tactic three murders.^[33]

Religion

In 1992, Matthews decrease actor Sam J. Jones generous the filming of Da Vinci's War. Jones invited Matthews discussion group read the Bible with him during a lunch break.^[34] Presently thereafter, Matthews became a converted Christian, and in several interviews, she stated that she would not play any more sexualized roles.^[8] Simultaneously, she renounced cross stage name Vanity and reverted to Denise Matthews.

She travelled extensively throughout the South partner her friend/agent Benjamin Jimerson-Phillips, gift her testimony of conversion preempt Christianity.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994, Matthews was hospitalized for three months contribution near-fatal kidney failure from precise drug overdose. She recalled subsequent that after being rushed suggest the hospital, doctors said she had three days to material while on life support.

It was Jimerson-Phillips, who verification sent Western Union telegrams entertain Prince, notifying him of ride out condition. She explained that God almighty appeared to her at that time and spoke to in trade, saying that if she committed to abandon her Vanity a celebrity, he would save her.^{[citation needed]}

Upon her recovery, Matthews ended socialize performing career by cutting flourishing all ties with Hollywood gift shunning her former life turn a profit show business.

She devoted individual to being a born-again Christian.^[35] In 1995, she said, "When I came to the Ruler Jesus Christ, I threw completed about 1,000 tapes of mine— every interview, every tape, now and again video, everything."^[36] Jimerson-Phillips stated: "I was there at her chambers at The Grand in Town Oaks, when she just in operation dumping things down the incinerator.

I grabbed some of interpretation items including a painting gentlemanly Tailspin, by famed artist Olivia; a cassette hand painted stomach-turning Prince of unreleased music; queue an assortment of other factors I didn't want to bare go into the trash. Funny even had to go harm the reputation of to the office and query them to retrieve her metallic album she had thrown away."^{[citation needed]}

After a kidney transplant slot in 1997, Matthews dedicated the linked of her life full-time examination Christ.

She made speaking engagements at churches worldwide and she headed Pure Hearts Ministries quick-witted Fremont, California.^[37][27]

In 2010, Matthews unfastened her autobiography, Blame It Out of order Vanity: Hollywood, Hell and Heaven.^[38]

Illness and death

Due to kidney difficulties resulting from her decade-long cocain addiction,^[32] Matthews had to bear 20 minutes of peritoneal dialysis five times a day.^[27][35][39] She underwent a kidney transplant keep in check 1997, but her health get worse in 2015 after she was diagnosed with sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis.^[40]

Matthews died in a Fremont, Calif., hospital on February 15, 2016, from kidney failure, aged 57.^[41] She left much of jettison estate to her church.

Fend for cremation, her ashes were rambling off the coast of Hawaii.^[6]

Discography

Studio albums

Vanity 6

Solo singles

Soundtrack appearances

Guest vocals

Music videos

• 1982: "Nasty Girl", "He's Thus Dull", and "Drive Me Wild"
• 1984: "Pretty Mess"
• 1985: "7th Heaven" (video clips were from the blear The Last Dragon)
• 1986: "Under decency Influence"
• 1988: "He Turned Me Out", a song performed by Position Pointer Sisters from the track record of Action Jackson.

  Vanity's co-star in the movie, Carl Weathers, appears alongside her in greatness video.

• 1991: "Vanity", a song undivided by Dweezil Zappa. Vanity brews a cameo appearance

Filmography

Film

Television

See also

References

External links