Apollonia Kotero

At 64 years old, Apollonia Kotero has this physical status:

Apollonia Kotero (born Patricia Apollonia Kotero, 1959) is an American singer, actress, former model, and talent manager.

She is best known for co-starring in Prince's 1984 film Purple Rain and as the lead singer of Apollonia 6.

Early life

Kotero was born in San Pedro, California, the daughter of Mexican refugees and the eldest of four children. Victor, her father, was a restauranteur, and Socorro, her mother, was a caregiver for the elderly. She dropped out of school at 16 to pursue a career as a model.

Personal life

From 1980 to 1985, Apollonia was married to Greg Patschull, an aspiring actor and martial artist. During the filming of Purple Rain, she dated singer David Lee Roth. Kevin Bernhardt, actress Kevin Bernhardt, was her second marriage from 1987 to 1997.

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Career

Kotero was a film actress, singer, and a model. Kotero began acting in films and television series including: CHiPs, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Fantasy Island, Matt Houston, and Knight Rider after winning the Miss San Pedro beauty competition and following her stint as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams in the early 1980s. She appeared in music videos for Ray Parker Jr.'s "The Other Woman" and "Shakin'" by Eddie Money between March and September 1982. She appeared in the ABC television film The Mystic Warrior as the Native American woman Wicahpi in May 1984. When she and David Lee Roth, a Van Halen singer, were in Los Angeles on and off, she auditioned for Purple Rain. Roth had followed her modeling career and recruited her for a star of the Cars magazine cover.

When Denise "Vanity" Matthews, the then-leader of Vanity 6, resigned from the organization before Prince's 1984 film Purple Rain was shot, Kotero landed the female lead role. Vanity 6, which was renamed Apollo 6 for the film, also featured supporting singer Brenda Bennett and Prince's then-girlfriend Susan Moonsie. Apollo 6 began a worldwide tour to promote their hit song, "Sex Shooter."

Kotero had written half of the songs and had produced a version of the song "Manic Monday" for the 1984 album Apollonia 6. The album was written and produced by Prince, and it later became a worldwide hit single for The Bangles. The Prince's album "Take Me With U" featured vocals by Kotero, and it debuted at #25 on the Billboard Top 40 charts in the United States.

Kotero left Prince's camp to appear on CBS primetime soap opera Falcon Crest in 1985, portraying Apollonia, the character played by Lorenzo Lamas' girlfriend for ten weeks in a row. She performed several solo albums, including "Red Light Romeo," written and composed by Jon Lind.

Warner Bros. Records released Kotero's eponymously named first solo album, Apollonia, in 1988. "Since I Fell for You," "The Same Dream" and "Mismatch" were three songs from the album.

She continued to appear in films including Ministry of Vengeance (1989), Back To Back (1990), Black Magic Woman (1991), and two Italian films La Donna del Sera (1991) and Cattive Ragazze (1992). She returned to television on shows such as Sliders and Air America (co-starring Lorenzo Lamas, her former co-star in Falcon Crest) and also hosted The Jazz Channel's Latin Beat program. Go For It was also released during this time.

Kotero could also be seen on E!

Carmen Electra of Celebrity Homes, The Test, Rendezview, and MTV Cribs are among her friend's.

Kotero Entertainment, a multimedia entertainment firm established in 2005, contracted a number of producers to produce a children's animated television series as well as feature films. Kotero Entertainment has also started handling young talent, including television and film actress Sascha Andres and young pop singer Nikki Barreras, also known as Nikki B.

In 2009, Kotero's vocals appeared on "When Doves Cry" by Prince on Spin magazine's 25th anniversary tribute to the Purple Rain album, Purplish Rain.

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