Denise "Vanity" Matthews has Died

Last Dayz

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Back again, i don't want to believe it.

She's my #1 favorite celebrity woman of all time, out of all the bad chicks that i've seen on screen she is the one i always wanted to find a girl who looked like.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...g-death-shortly-Melbourne-concertconcert.html



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Prince pays tribute to late girlfriend Vanity in first show on Australian solo tour
FEBRUARY 17, 20166:05AM
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First review: Prince got deep and emotional in his first Australian solo show

Cameron AdamsNews Corp Australia Network
REMEMBER when musicians became superstars because of their talent?

Prince may be the last of his kind.

Australia is the surprise first global leg of his Piano and a Microphone solo tour, a tour which didn’t exist a month ago but will be talked about for years.

Armed just with a piano and that immense talent, Prince put on the kind of concert you just don’t expect to see from a superstar. It was spontaneous and intimate. It was like a private piano party, just with 2000 people watching. It was pure Prince.

His first Melbourne show at the State Theatre was particularly emotionally charged — Prince admitting he’d just found out about the death of Denise Matthews, aka Vanity, his ex-girlfriend from the early ‘80s and protoge when she fronted the band Vanity 6.

“Someone dear to us has passed away, I’m gonna dedicate this song to her,” Prince said before playing a touching version of Little Red Corvette with a touch of Dirty Mind — songs from the era when they were together.

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The State Theatre goes purple for PrinceSource:Supplied

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First sign of new Prince merchandiseSource:Supplied

Prince reworked his classic The Ladder to replace the name ‘Electra’ with ‘Vanity’ — so the lyrics ran “This Prince, he had a subject named Vanity who loved him with a passion, uncontested.”

After an encore Prince returned to the stage noting “I am new to this playing alone. I thank you all for being so patient. I’m trying to stay focused, it’s a little heavy for me tonight. Just keep jamming ... She knows about this one.” That introduced a truly incredible version of The Beautiful Ones, another song from the Vanity era (she was the original choice for lead in the Purple Rain movie), the song ending with Prince changing “my knees” for “Denise ... Denise”.

Unusually chatty and candid, he continued going off script. “Can I tell you a story about Vanity? Or should I tell you a story about Denise? Her and I used to love each other deeply. She loved me for the artist I was, I loved her for the artist she was trying to be. She and I would fight. She was very headstrong cos she knew she was the finest woman in the world. She never missed an opportunity to tell you that.”

Prince then opened up about a fight where he threatened to throw Vanity in the pool. She said “You can’t throw me in the pool, you’re too little”. He then asked his six foot bodyguard Chick to do the dirty work for him.

“I probably shouldn’t be telling this story,“ he said, “but she’d want us to celebrate her life and not mourn her.”

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Poster anyone: fans snapped up merchandise from the brand new Prince tour.Source:Supplied

The show mixed hits (Money Don’t Matter 2Nite, If I Was UR Girlfriend, How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore) and covers (Bob Marley’s Waiting in Vain) with deep cuts, including the recently reclaimed 1992 song A 1000 Hugs and Kisses and new tunes Big City, Satisfied and When She Comes.

Fan favourite Sometimes It Snows in April had slight touches of Purple Rain in it, while he dusted off I Love U In Me, a b-side from the Batman era — the kind of thing fans dream of hearing.

Only Bruce Springsteen puts on these kind of spur-of-the-moment shows where you know every concert will be drastically different.

During one song he tapped his feet to make a beat, demonstrating he was wearing shoes that flash and light up, similar to the ones kids have. He may well be the only adult that can pull them off.

The show was delightfully loose. “Space is part of the music,” he noted at one point.

After an encore Prince asked “Mind if I jam a little?” Not when that jam becomes a medley of Raspberry Beret, Paisley Park, Starfish and Coffee and a jaw-dropping version of Adore, again for Vanity. You really felt you were watching something special, a glimpse into his heart that would never be repeated.

The adoring crowd partied like it was 1979 — phones weren’t allowed or used, and there were no media photographers. It lives on only in memory.

Prince is obviously a genius, but he’s got another commodity that’s been lost today — mystery. He’s the kind of artist who decides to tour on a whim, then reinvents his catalogue on a piano and blows your mind.

It was only the use of an iPad on top of his piano, with lyrics he constantly scrolled through, that reminded you he’s human and uses modern technology too.

“Can’t nobody do it like Prince,” he says at one point. Amen.

Prince plays two more shows in Melbourne tonight before moving to Sydney and Perth.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...r/news-story/d80310448ef160275398c7f36d2f221d
 

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Rest in peace.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_(singer)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vanity-dead-prince-discovery-dies-865763

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/prince-collaborator-vanity-dead-57-7378544





Born Denise Katrina Matthews in Niagara Falls, Ontario, she was the daughter of Helga Senyk and James Levia Matthews.[6] Her mother is of Polish and Jewish descent and was born in Germany, while her father was of African American, Hawaiian and Native American ancestry.[7]





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SmilinShark

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My heart goes out to her family,her church members,and every one who worked with her musically.She brought a unique perspective to female artistry.She allowed her inner beauty and love for Christ to outshine the glitz and glam trappings of Hollywood stardomR.I.P
 

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Vanity was everything during my teenage years.I could never get enough of her.She always had that sexy voice and style and men always wanted to be by her side and either save her or save her from herself.Any time Action Jackson or The Last Dragon pops up during channel surfing i have to stop and watch RIP Lovely Lady
 

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Prince Pays Tribute to Vanity, His Former Protégé, at a Solo Concert in Australia

Denise Matthews, better known as Vanity, the protégé of Prince and lead singer of Vanity 6, died on Monday at the age of 57. During his
Piano and a Microphone solo-tour concert in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday night, Prince repurposed several of his songs as tributes to his onetime love. "I just found out a little while ago that someone dear to us has passed away," Prince said early in the set, "So I'm gonna dedicate this song to her." After that, he performed a slowed-down rendition of "Little Red Corvette" with a segue into "Dirty Mind," both of which were written when the two were together. The tributes continued as Prince performed "The Ladder" with the name "Vanity" exchanged for "Electra," with the new lyrics, "This Prince, he had a subject named Vanity, who loved him with a passion uncontested." Later he made similar adjustments to Purple Rain's "The Beautiful Ones," shifting "I'm begging down on my knees" to "I'm begging Denise, Denise."

Prince continued to go off-script throughout the night, launching into an extended anecdote about about the musician, actress, and model between songs:

Can I tell you a story about Vanity? Or should I tell you a story about Denise? Her and I used to love each other deeply. She loved me for the artist I was, I loved her for the artist she was trying to be. She and I would fight. She was very headstrong 'cause she knew she was the finest woman in the world. She never missed an opportunity to tell you that.

Prince explained that he once threatened to throw Vanity into a pool during a fight. "You can't throw me in the pool, you're too little," Vanity responded. After which Prince had a bodyguard do the dirty work. "I probably shouldn’t be telling this story," he said, "but she’d want us to celebrate her life and not mourn her."
http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/prince-pays-tribute-to-vanity-at-solo-concert.html
 

XXXplosive

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Just watched The Last Dragon yesterday for the first time ever (yeah, I know I'm late).
Didn't realize how truly fine she was and the fact that she was half black.

RIP
 

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Back again, i don't want to believe it.

She's my #1 favorite celebrity woman of all time, out of all the bad chicks that i've seen on screen she is the one i always wanted to find a girl who looked like.

:crymeariver::crymeariver::crymeariver::crymeariver:
I've been listening to "Mechanical Emotion" nonstop.
She has that "it" when it comes to completely sensual vibe.
The way she does the whisper singing is amazing.

I'll bet she stayed sexy even in her"church girl"reinvention.
Thank goodness for YouTube.
 

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Apollonia: Vanity was an 'inspiration'

The woman who replaced Vanity in Prince's classic movie "Purple Rain" called her an "inspiration" and one of the first true 1980s divas.


Singer and actress Apollonia Kotero told The Associated Press that she and Vanity first met in the late '80s, after Kotero had idolized her for years.

"She was an inspiration to me, just like she was to all the ladies that followed," Kotero said in a phone interview from Los Angeles.

Vanity, whose legal name was Denise Matthews, died Monday at 57.

Although it had been years since the two of them had talked, Kotero said they kept in contact through social media.

"She was a pioneer, a strong woman, she was a diva, the princess of funk ... the audiences absolutely adored her," Kotero said.

Kotero stepped in for Matthews after the late singer resigned from Vanity 6 before the filming of "Purple Rain." The group was renamed Apollonia 6 for the movie and released the song "Sex Shooter."

Like Matthews, Kotero would eventually leave Prince's camp and go on to a television and movie career, including a role in the TV soap opera "Falcon Crest."

Kotero said she still has the famous Rolling Stone magazine with Prince and Matthews on the cover, and seeing that magazine was a life-changing moment for her. She said she immediately felt "like these people were my family."

"And I thought, I wish I could do that someday," Kotero said, her voice breaking. "I want to be like them, I want to be special like them."
 

will_right

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Yeah she was def fine..l liked her as well...I wonder how prince is taking this..R.I.P. she was kinda special to a lot of people I'm sure :(
 
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