Daphne Rubin-Vega (born November 18 1969 in Panama City, Panama), also known simply as Daphne, is a dance music singer and actress. She began her musical career as the lead singer for the Latin freestyle group Pajama Party, placing three songs on the Hot 100 in 1989 and 1990. As a solo artist her biggest success is on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where in 1996 she hit #1 with the song "I Found It." She returned to the top of the dance/club play charts in 2003 with a dance version of Elton John's "Rocketman". In 2001 she recorded her debut full-length rock album of original songs ("Souvenirs") but it fell through the cracks when her record company Mercury merged. It is available on her website.
Rubin-Vega performed in the Broadway musical Rent with Wilson Jermaine Heredia, with whom she also starred in the 1999 film Flawless. In Rent she starred as Mimi Marquez, the HIV-positive, heroin-addicted nineteen-year-old who works at the Cat Scratch Club as a stripper. Rubin-Vega left...
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