*We had heard rumblings about her death earlier today, but didn’t have any solid info to report. Now we can. Denise Matthews (a/k/a Vanity), the lead singer of the Prince protege group Vanity 6 from ...

Denise Katrina Matthews, the singer formerly known as Vanity, has reportedly died. She was 57. By Colin Stutz Denise Katrina Matthews, the singer formerly known as Vanity, has died. She was 57.

Denise Matthews, the former Prince protege known as Vanity, who later became a Christian evangelist minister who condemned her pop/rock lifestyle, has died. She was 57. She died at the Washington ...

*Two months before Prince was found dead in his Paisley Park home on April 21, 2016, one of his biggest protégés, the Niagara Falls, Ontario-born beauty Denise Katherine Matthews, whom Prince renamed ...