Canada born singer and Prince protégé Vanity died in Fremont, Calif. Monday (Feb. 15). She was 57.
Vanity, born Denise Katrina Matthews, died in a hospital, reports TMZ. She was diagnosed with intestinal inflammation known as sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis and had opened a Go Fund Me Account last September. She had also been diagnosed with kidney failure brought on by a crack addiction in the ‘90s.
Last year, she wrote about being in excruciating pain but keeping the faith:
So pray for me now for i am believing in complete healing of this body longing to be healed made whole my heart..I have my vision, i keep it close. I repent daily my sins, my faults and my shortcomings. He has brought me out of so many fires, oh so many, 23 years alive after the doctors pronounced i would be dead way back then 1992…I lift my head up high to the sky and do thank my Jesus that He has kept me thus far and even as much as this body would love to be with Him in Heaven right this minute… for He is my true love and King over my life…even as the Apostle Paul yearned also to be with Him in the Heavenly’s ….As well David the King..we have our duty and i will serve my generation…i am happy to live and declare my testimonies with joy unspeakable believing for Him to pull me thru.
The lead singer of the ‘80s group Vanity 6, perhaps best know for the hit “Nasty Girl,” was an undeniable beauty with acting credits that include the cult classic, The Last Dragon.
Following a 1994 crack overdose, she claimed to have had a vision of Jesus telling her to drop the Vanity persona. She became a born again Christian and devoted her life to religion, speaking at churches all over the U.S.
Watch her in The Last Dragon below.
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