Vanity

Denise Katrina Matthews (born January 4, 1959 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada), known as Vanity (but sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith or D.D. Winters), is a Canadian-born singer, actress, and model.

The daughter of a German mother and an African-American father, she is the sister of Canadian model Patricia Matthews.

Early in her career, 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. Some versions of the story suggest that Prince coined the name Vagina initially, but she refused and renamed herself "Vanity" instead. Later that same year, she became the lead singer of the group Vanity 6. Their trademark was explicit sexuality in their lyrics, performances, and attire. Prince produced the group's biggest hit, "Nasty Girl."

After one album, Vanity decided to leave her role in Vanity 6 and the proposed film Purple Rain in 1983. She signed a lucrative record deal with Motown Records in 1984 and recorded two albums, Wild Animal and Skin On Skin. She also starred in a handful of movies, including The Last Dragon and the 1988 action thriller Action Jackson, in which she starred opposite Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone. She also played a villain torturing Nancy Allen's character in 1990's amnesia-plot TV movie Memories of Murder; the film has appeared on the Lifetime channel. She guest starred in an episode of Miami Vice in its third season; she posed for Playboy in 1988; and, in 1993, she appeared in an episode of Highlander: The Series opposite Adrian Paul.

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.

An evangelist and born-again Christian, she travels the United States and currently resides in Fremont, California.

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Denise Matthews ist mittlerweile bekehrte Christin und schwört ihrem ehemaligen Leben als "Vanity" ab. Darüber hat sie eine Autobiographie mit dem Titel "Blame it on Vanity" ("Schande auf Vanity") geschrieben.

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