Real name: Carole Raphaelle Davis

Effective period / Period of releases: 1989 - 1993

model, actress, singer/songwriter and author

Davis signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1989 and released her first album, Heart of Gold, which Nile Rodgers produced. Her single "Serious Money" (a cover of The O'Jays hit "For the Love of Money") was a dance hit, and the video was number one. It became the original theme song for the hip-hop music video show Rap City on BET. Davis's singing career was brief, but it's worth mentioning that she co-wrote the lyrics (together with Prince) of Slow Love released on Prince's Sign "O" The Times album, and her recording is available as the B-side of Serious Money and on the CD edition of her Heart Of Gold album. She was rumored to be offered the lead in Purple Rain but turned it down.

Davis posed for the Playboy (1978) and Penthouse (1980) magazines under the name Tamara Kapitas and became 'Penthouse Pet of the Month' and 'Pet of the Year'. An actress and author, she has made guest appearances in television shows such as The A-Team, Star Trek: Voyager, Sex and the City, Angel and more recently in 2 Broke Girls and Madam Secretary along with several minor film roles.

More recently, she has been an activist in her native Europe against anti-semitism and animal cruelty.