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Vanity is the most popular stage name used by singer/actress/model Denise Katrina Matthews (born January 4, 1959 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada). January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Skyline of Niagara Falls, Canada, as seen from the Embassy Suites hotel. ...
She is sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith or D.D. Winters.
She is a sister of Canadian model Patricia Matthews.
Matthews appeared in B-movies such as Tanya's Island and Terror Train. In 1982, she met Prince who re-named her Vanity (saying he saw his female reflection when he looked at her) and she became the lead singer of singing group, Vanity 6, that same year. Prince produced the group's biggest hit "Nasty Girl". Their trademark was explicit sexuality in their lyrics, performances and attire. After one album, Vanity decided to leave her role in Vanity 6 and the proposed film Purple Rain in 1983. Vanity signed a lucrative record deal with Motown Records in 1984. She recorded two albums Wild Animal and Skin On Skin. She also starred in a handful of movies, including The Last Dragon and she starred opposite Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone in the 1988 action thriller Action Jackson. She also played a villain torturing Nancy Allen's character in 1990s amnesia-plot TV movie Memories of Murder (the film has appeared on the Lifetime channel). She appeared in an episode of Miami Vice in its third season. She posed for Playboy in 1988. The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ...
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Vanity 6 was a female vocal trio assembled by Prince in the early 1980s. ...
Purple Rain is a 1984 movie directed by Albert Magnoli and written by him and William Blinn. ...
Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan (Motor City), where it achieved widespread international success. ...
For the docudrama of the same name, see The Last Dragon (docudrama) Berry Gordys The Last Dragon is a 1985 martial arts parody film, featuring a predominantly Black cast, produced by then-Motown Records CEO Berry Gordy and directed by Michael Schultz. ...
Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an actor, formerly a professional American and Canadian league football player. ...
Craig T. Nelson (born Craig Richard Nelson on April 4, 1944 in Spokane, Washington) is an American actor. ...
Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe and Emmy winning American actress, producer, and former fashion model. ...
Action Jackson is a 1988 action film, starring Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone, directed by Craig R. Baxley. ...
Nancy Allen (born June 24, 1950 in New York City died October 12, 2006) was an American film actress. ...
Miami Vice S4 is out on uk DVD 13TH AUGUST For the 2006 movie, see Miami Vice (film). ...
The first issue of Playboy. ...
After being turned on to cocaine, which resulted in near-fatal kidney failure, Vanity gave up her stage name and became a born-again Christian and evangelist on August 16, 1997. She travels America, and currently resides in California. Cocaine (see also: crack) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...
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Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ...
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
In 2005, Vanity 6's "Nasty Girl" was redone in a tribal style by dance performer Inaya Day. Matthews is currently working on finishing her novel Blame it on Vanity. http://www. ...
jus like my ass For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ...
Inaya Day (real name: Inaya Davis) is an American singer best known for her vocal work on house music tracks such as Horny by Mousse T. // Early Career Inaya Day was born in New York City and started singing in church in Brooklyn. ...
Personal life
Matthews was engaged to Mötley Crüe bassist, Nikki Sixx, in the 1980s. She joked during interviews that her new stage name will then be Vanity 6 (Sixx) again. They never married. Mötley Crüe (IPA pronunciation: ) is a popular American glam metal band from Los Angeles, California. ...
A bassist is a musician who plays a double bass or electric bass (also referred to as bass guitar). ...
Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr. ...
Matthews was married to pro football player, Anthony Smith, from 26 March 1995 - 1996. They are divorced. Anthony Smith (born March 30, 1926) is, among other things, an explorer, author and former Tomorrows World television presenter. ...
March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years). ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Matthews has a German mother and an African-American father. Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ...
According to Matthews' offical site, in the past she suffered 250 over 190 high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blood clots to the brain, blindness, deafness, and was diagnosed as having three days to live before she repented and found Jesus. This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ...
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