Vanity, whose real name is Denise Matthews, was a Canadian singer who started her artistic career not as a singer but as a model at the end of the 1970s. But her small size prevented her from doing parades and she had to content to appear mainly in advertisements…
It was only a few years later that her singing career took off when she crossed paths with a certain Prince in 1982, who learned that she could sing. This is how he decides to offer her to integrate her into the Hookers, a female group he formed some time before. Group that he will quickly rename in Vanity 6 while renaming the name of the young singer in Vanity because he considers her at that time as his female equivalent...
A trio that will stay in history mainly for the huge Single "Nasty girl" which will also be released in 1982. An adventure that the young singer will quickly leave because she does not recognize herself in this character and especially this image a little too provocative to her taste that Prince made her endorse within this trio...
She therefore resumed her freedom a year later in 1983 and signed with Motown Records the following year in 1984, a label with which she released a first album "Wild animal". Album with a nice success of esteem and which will produce two Singles of great caliber that are "Pretty mess" and "Mechanical emotion".
New album "Skin on skin" two years later in 1986, an album which confirms that the singer is still in the running, notably thanks to the Single "Under the influence".
An album that will be the last because she will turn to religion at the very beginning of the 90s and will adopt a lifestyle totally incompatible with her previous life.
She will leave us on February 15, 2016 at the age of only 57 following kidney failure, kidney failure that she had been dragging for years following her excessive consumption of cocaine for nearly a decade…
To discover or rediscover.
Discography (among others...) :
He’s so dull (Vanity 6) 1982
Make-up (Vanity 6) 1982
Nasty girl (Vanity 6) 1982
Drive me wild (Vanity 6) 1982
Bite the beat (Vanity 6) 1982
3 x 2 = 6 (Vanity 6) 1982
Pretty mess 1984
Mechanical emotion 1984
Samuelle 1984
7th heaven 1985
Under the influence 1986
Animals 1986
Manhunt 1986
Ouch 1986
Undress 1988
Clips :
1982...the title that will reveal her to the eyes of the whole world. Certainly we are not talking about mega success but about success sufficient to show that we exist !
1982...this title will do a little less well than its predecessor but still allows the singer to mark her territory a little more...
1982...it didn't take long for the young Denise to become a real planetary phenomenon. She will get here a first top hit which will project her on the front of the stage in a shattering way to say the least...
1982...a sequel that will not be able to compete with the huge previous steamroller but to equal it would have been a real feat, that's clear...
1982...an adventure which will last only the time of an album and especially only the time of this year 1982. But which will have at least produced a title with the most favorable destiny...
1982... go one last title to close the Vanity 6 adventure. An adventure that will have seen the young Denise hatch and then explode at the highest level...
1984...here she is now in solo mode, it remains to be seen whether she will be able to bounce back in a consistent way after the Vanity 6 adventure...
1984...certainly she will not succeed in reaching the level of success achieved during the previous adventure but its titles will still be talked about and rather well...
1984...a title which will not be released as a Single but which deserved to be. It will at least have been brought to light through this article...
1985...we find her on the soundtrack of the film 'The last dragon', a soundtrack which unfortunately won't bring her more than that...
1986 ... she will succeed in bouncing back in a spectacular way on this title and show by the same that we will still have to count on her in the years to come ...
1986... the relapse behind will be violent to say the least. It must be said that with such an overboosted title, the reaction of the general public was not going to be the most favorable...
1986...a second half of the 1980s which turned out to be much more complicated to manage than expected. Hard law of the trade...
1986...and yet she puts an obvious good will into it, but that is no longer enough to keep her in the race. Attention danger...
1988...new soundtrack this time for the movie 'Action Jackson'. A participation that will go almost as unnoticed as the previous one and which will unfortunately put an end to the adventure...
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