In Memoriam: Prince Proteg? ‘Vanity’ (Vanity 6) Dead at 57… (PHOTOS + VIDEO)

The world has lost another musical icon.

Denise Katrina Matthews, best known for her stage name ‘Vanity,’ has died following a prolonged illness.

She was 57.

Details below…



VIDEO: Vanity 6 – Nasty Girl

According to TMZ, Vanity,?lead singer of the ’80s girl group?Vanity 6, has died after years of battling kidney failure and, more recently, an abdominal illness.

Vanity, whose real name was?Denise Katrina Matthews, passed away in a Fremont, CA hospital on Monday … according to sources close to her family.

A few months ago she set up a GoFundMe page, and said she’d been diagnosed with sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis — an inflammation of the small intestines.

She also battled crack addiction in the ’90s, and after a 1994 OD her kidneys were shot. She had to undergo nearly daily dialysis treatments.

Vanity’s biggest hit came in 1982 with?”Nasty Girl” … a song produced by?Prince.

The group toured with Prince on his 1999 tour, but Vanity quit right after that and was replaced in the group by Apollonia.

She went on to sign a solo record deal with Motown, and starred in movies like “The Last Dragon” and “Action Jackson,” but her career never really took off.



VIDEO: Vanity – 7th Heaven (The Last Dragon)
Vanity?eventually ditched Hollywood, quit drugs and became a born-again Christian in the mid ’90s. She remained active in her local church up until her death.

TMZ reports that Vanity was in church on Saturday evening and told the congregation she was “ready to go home.”



VIDEO: Vanity Interview 1986 (Arsenio Hall)

R.I.P. Denise Katrina Matthews

(January 4, 1959 – February 15, 2016)

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