Posted on 02/15/2016 5:42:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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. ...
Sad
Wasn’t she a Born Again Christian? I think I read something about that a while back.
Yes i think so and imho one of the finest looking woman to walk the planet
VERY young.
Dangit it seem like we are losing young boomer artists daily.
RIP
She was a born-again Christian so she's in the Lord's loving arms.
Go Fund Me? We need Government to take their money when they are young so that they don’t need charity. Debbie Thomas? All those back ballplayers now bankrupt? Now Kanye?
I’m sorry to hear she passed, though I am glad she was able to clean up her life in the 1990s. She got off the drugs, in no small part to her newfound faith, and spent the last 20 years or so of her life sober and apparently quite happy.
RIP.
Remember her from The Last Dragon, she was gorgeous in that. Dumb movie but a lot of fun to veg out to . . .
Excellent
That’s a bit of a shocker. I remember her being in the 1988 movie “Action Jackson”. That one was a disappointment overall, but certainly not her. I have a collection of Premier magazines from about that time (as I was a subscriber back then) and they did an interesting feature article about her.
I remember her from the ‘80s. 57 is still too young these days. RIP.
So sorry to hear this. Beautiful lady—I didn’t know she’d given her heart to the Lord. She’s home now, thanks to Him.
natural beauty
Scary in a way.
Makes you realize how far back the 80s are when someone that young in you mind still, is now just gone.
Gosh, I kind of remember this from the 80s. The poor lady, may she rest in peace.
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