• Biography

• More ...
• Filmbug Top 100
• Movie Dictionary

Browse ..
A-Z
By Date
By Year
By State
By Country

•  

Born Patricia Kotero on August 2, 1959 in Santa Monica, California, Apollonia Kotero is a swimsuit model, actress and singer. She joined Prince's entourage after the departure of Vanity, Denise Matthews, as lead in the film Purple Rain and as lead-singer of recording group Vanity 6.

Kotero had taken part in nationwide audition to find a replacement for Vanity before being cast by Prince in the role that had originally been given to Vanity. It was at this time that Prince gave Kotero the stagename Apollonia and she also inherited Vanity's former lead role in Prince's girlgroup, with original members Brenda Bennett and Susan Moonsie. Purple Rain eventually became a huge success and Apollonia attained overnight stardom.

The newly renamed Apollonia 6 released one album in October, 1984 and released the hit single Sex Shooter. The band became famous for appearaing on stage in lingerie only. Although the album is credited to a producer named Jamie Starr, it has always been obvious that the album was completely produced by Prince himself.

Apollonia had originally recorded a version of the song Manic Monday for the 1984 Apollonia 6 album. Written by Prince as well, the song would later become a worldwide hit single for the girl group The Bangles. It was rumored that Prince had lost interest in the Apollonia 6 project and therefore removed several hit singles from their album (shortly before its release): namely Manic Monday, The Glamorous Life (which instead ended up on the debut album of drummer Sheila E, and Take Me With U (the duet Apollonia performed with Prince, which ended up on the Purple Rain soundtrack album instead). Take Me With U is Apollonia's highest charting single, reaching #25 on the Top-40 chart in the US.

Apollonia left the Prince camp in 1985 to pursue a role on television in Falcon Crest (1986). She was allowed to appear under her own stage name Apollonia on the show and also performed several solo songs (none of which would later be released).

In 1988 she released her first (and so far only) solo album, simply titled Apollonia on Warner Bros. Records. Containing high energy dance music, the album released two singles: Since I Fell For You and Mismatch. It was produced by several hit producers, such as Ric Wake (Taylor Dayne, Diana Ross), Terry Lupton (Michael Learns To Rock, Jamie Stevens), or songwriter Andy Goldmark (Jennifer Rush).

In the 90's she slowly returned to the show business and did a guest appearance on the US TV show Sliders (with Jerry O'Connell).

Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonia_Kotero