Vanessa Williams on the cover of her 2005 album Everlasting Love

Vanessa Lynn Williams^[1] (born March 18, 1963) is an American R&B/pop/theatrical singer and actress. In 1983, she made history when she became the first African American to be crowned Miss America, but then was forced to resign her title in scandal. She then engaged in an entertainment career. Image File history File links Vanessa_Lynn_Williams-Everlasting_Love. ... Image File history File links Vanessa_Lynn_Williams-Everlasting_Love. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... For Popular music (music that is popular, rather than of a specific genre or style), see Popular music. ... Musical theatre (sometimes spelled theater) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... LeAnn Rimes singing in concert A singer is a type of musician who uses his or her voice to produce music. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Miss America contestants visit Andrews Air Force Base in 2003 For the two Golden Age patriotically-themed comic book superheroines, see Miss America (comics). ...

Biography

Early life

Williams was born in Millwood, New York in New York City; she and her brother grew up in suburban Millwood, New York. Both of her parents were half African American, half white. Prophetically, her parents put "Here she is Miss America" on her birth announcement. [Entertainment Tonight December 11 2005] Millwood, New York - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Nickname The Big Apple, The Capital of the World [1], Gotham Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... Millwood, New York - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... White is a color, (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news magazine that is syndicated by CBS Paramount Domestic Television throughout the United States and Canada. ...

Her parents, Milton and Helen Williams, were both music teachers who held advanced degrees in the subject. Vanessa studied piano and French horn growing up, but was most interested in singing. She received a scholarship and attended Syracuse University as a theatre arts major, but later dropped out of college to pursue a career in entertainment. She also won scholarships for being selected as Miss America. A teachers room in a Japanese middle school, 2005. ... A baby grand piano, with the lid up. ... The horn is a brass instrument consisting of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual (a scholar) for the purposes of furthering their education. ... Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...

Miss America

Williams began competing in beauty pageants in the early 80s, and won Miss New York in 1983. She then went on to Atlantic City where she was crowned Miss America 1984 on September 17, 1983, making her the first ever African-American Miss America. Prior to the final night of competition, Williams won both the Preliminary Talent and Swimsuit Competitions earlier in the week. A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. ... Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s - 100s - 110s - 120s - 130s 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 Note: Sometimes 80s is used as shorthand for the 1980s, the 1880s, or other such decades in different centuries. ... Alternate meanings: See Atlantic City (disambiguation) Atlantic City is a city located in USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 40,517. ... Miss America contestants visit Andrews Air Force Base in 2003 For the two Golden Age patriotically-themed comic book superheroines, see Miss America (comics). ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Controversy erupted in the summer of 1984 when it was discovered that in 1982 she had posed nude for photographs — including scenes of graphic exposure and lesbian theming — that were about to be published in the September 1984 issue of adult magazine Penthouse without her permission. After several days of media frenzy, Williams chose to resign her position on July 23, 1984. The crown was given to Suzette Charles (making her the second African-American Miss America), 54 days before the start of the pageant for Miss America 1985. At the time, many believed Williams' reputation would never recover from the scandal. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines or sex magazines are magazines that contain content of a sexual nature, typically regarded as pornography. ... Penthouse is a mens magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combining urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials, that eventually, in the 1990s evolved into hardcore. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Suzette Charles (born March 2, 1963) is an American singer and entertainer. ... This article is about the year. ...

Music career

Soon after, she entered the music industry with her 1988 debut album, The Right Stuff, which reached gold status and earned her three Grammy Award nominations, including one for Best New Artist. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with RIAA certification. ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music... The Grammy for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1960. ...

Her most notable songs include "Dreamin'", "Running Back To You", "Love Is", "The Sweetest Days", "Colors of the Wind", "The Comfort Zone" and "Oh How The Years Go By". However, her biggest hit to date and signature song is "Save the Best For Last", which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks from March 21 to April 18, 1992. In total, Williams has sold six million records and received fifteen Grammy Award nominations. Colors of the Wind is a song by singer/actress Vanessa Williams. ... A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established singer, or band, is most closely identified with, even though they have had success with a variety of songs. ... Save The Best For Last is considered as the biggest hit of Vanessa Williams. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music...

In 2005, Vanessa released her eighth studio album, Everlasting Love, a collection of covers of her favorite 1970s songs. In popular music a cover version is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ...

Acting career

In the 80s, she also began a career in acting with guest roles in tv series, such as The Love Boat, T.J. Hooker and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and roles in made-for-TV movies, such as Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer and The Jacksons: An American Dream. The Love Boat - Opening Title The Love Boat was a TV series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 until 1986. ... T.J. Hooker was a weekly police drama that premiered as a mid-season replacement in early 1982 on ABC-TV and ran on ABC primetime through summer 1985. ... The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996, featuring Will Smith in a fish-out-of-water tale of a streetwise Philadelphia teenager sent to live with rich relatives in a Bel-Air, California mansion. ...

Her other TV appearances include Saturday Night Live, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, LateLine, Ally McBeal and Boomtown. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... LateLine was an American TV sitcom that ran on NBC from March 17, 1998, through March 16, 1999. ... Time magazine, June 29, 1998. ... A boomtown is a community that experiences sudden and rapid growth, normally attributed to the discovery of a precious resource such as gold or silver. ...

She played the nymph Calypso in the 1997 Hallmark Entertainment miniseries The Odyssey, starring Armand Assante. In Greek mythology Kalypsō (Greek: Καλυψώ, I will conceal), or Calypso, was a sea nymph, daughter of Atlas, who delayed Odysseus on her dark and depressing island (Ogygia) for seven years. ... The Odyssey was a 1997 miniseries on NBC. For other uses of Odyssey see Odyssey (disambiguation). ... Armand Assante (born October 4, 1949, New York City, New York) is an American actor born to an Italian American father and an Irish American mother. ...

She later won starring roles in feature movies, such as Eraser, co-starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Soul Food, for which she won the Best Actress award at the NAACP Image Awards, and Dance With Me. Eraser is a 1996 action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vanessa Williams. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and Republican politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ... Soul food is an ethnic cuisine, food traditionally eaten by African Americans of the Southern United States. ... The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music and literature. ...

Her other movies include Hoodlum, opposite Laurence Fishburne, Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (as the Queen of Trash), Shaft, opposite Samuel L. Jackson, and Johnson Family Vacation, alongside Cedric the Entertainer. Morpheus in The Matrix Revolutions. ... Shaft (2000) is a John Singleton directed sequel/spinoff of the 1971 original. ... Jackson in The Man Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Johnson Family Vacation is an American comedy film directed by Christopher Erskin, released on April 7, 2004 by Fox Searchlight Pictures. ... Cedric the Entertainer Cedric the Entertainer (born Cedric Kyles, April 24, 1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri) is an African American actor and comedian. ...

Williams has appeared in several Broadway theatre productions, including major roles in Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1994 for which she received stellar reviews and Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods in 2002. Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Kiss of the Spider Woman is a 1985 film which tells the story of two men in an Argentine prison during the 1970s military government — one a political prisoner, the other in prison for his homosexuality — who learn to respect each other. ... Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. ... Into the Woods is an award-winning musical featuring a score by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. ...

She has also appeared in a number of advertisements for Radio Shack, starting in 2001. Recently Williams has become the spokesmodel for Proactiv Solution. In early 2006 she starred in the short lived UPN drama South Beach. For the fall 2006 season, she will be starring in the new ABC comedy Betty The Ugly. RadioShack Corporation (formerly Radio Shack) (NYSE: RSH) runs a chain of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe. ... Proactiv Solution is an acne treatment system developed by Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields which was launched in 1995. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by CBS Corporation, which also owns the more widespread CBS network. ... South Beach is a primetime television drama that premiered on the UPN network on January 11, 2006. ...

Personal life

Williams is the mother of four children. Three of her children are from her first marriage to her then-manager Ramon Hervey, which ended in 1997. She married again in 1999 to NBA basketball star Rick Fox, previously of the Los Angeles Lakers. They have one daughter named Sasha, born May 2000. The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... Ulrich Rick Fox (born July 24, 1969 in Toronto, Canada), is a former professional basketball player and minor actor. ... The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. ...

After The National Enquirer published pictures of Fox kissing another woman in mid-2004, Fox's representatives announced that the couple had been "headed toward divorce" for over a year.[1] A few months later on August 10, Fox filed for divorce.[2] During some press interviews, Williams casted some doubt on the status of their relationship.[3] But while visiting the Howard Stern radio show in early 2005, she said that while she and Fox were intimate with each other briefly during the holidays, a reconciliation was unlikely.[4] In early 2006, Williams began dating 29-year-old actor Rob Mack, whom she met on the set of her show South Beach.[5] // The National Enquirer (also commonly known as The Enquirer) is a national American supermarket tabloid published by American Media Inc (AMI). ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Howard Stern Howard Allen Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, humorist and author. ...

Her father Milton Williams died in January 2006 at the age of 70.[6] She currently resides in Chappaqua, New York. Chappaqua is a hamlet and census-designated place located in northern Westchester County, New York. ...

Works

Discography

Greatest Hits: The First 10 years

Silver and Gold

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Albums

• The Right Stuff
• The Comfort Zone
• The Sweetest Days
• Star Bright
• Next
• Greatest Hits: The First Ten Years
• Silver and Gold
• Everlasting Love

Singles

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Filmography

• The Pick-Up Artist (1987)
• Under the Gun (1988)
• Another You (1991)
• Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
• The Jacksons: An American Dream
• Eraser (1996)
• Hoodlum (1997)
• Soul Food (1997)
• Dance with Me (1998)
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
• Light It Up (1999)
• Shaft (2000)
• A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)
• Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
• Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
• My Brother (2006)

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Awards

• 1988 Nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("The Right Stuff").
• 1989 Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("Dreamin'").
• 1989 Won NAACP Image Award for Best New Artist.
• Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("Runnin' Back to You").
• 1992 Nominated for 3 American Music Awards for Favorite Female Artist - Pop / Rock, Favorite Female Artist - Soul / Rhythm & Blues, Favorite Album - Adult Contemporary ("The Comfort Zone").
• 1992 Nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Pop Female Vocalist ("Save the Best for Last"), Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("The Comfort Zone").
• 1992 Nominated for 2 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video of the Year ("Save the Best for Last") and Best Cinematography in a Video ("Running Back to You").
• 1993 Won a Billboard Music Award for No. 1 Adult Contemporary Single ("Love Is").
• 1993 Nominated for Grammy Award for Pop Vocal Group ("Love Is").
• 1993 Won Playboy Magazine's - Best Female Rhythm and Blues Vocalist.
• 1994 Won Theatre World Award for Best Debut Performance ("Kiss of the Spider Woman").
• 1994 Won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist.
• 1995 Nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Pop Female Vocalist ("Colors of the Wind"), Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("The Way That You Love"), Best Musical Show Album ("Kiss of the Spider Woman").
• 1995 Won Grammy Award for Best Song written specifically for a Motion Picture or Television ("Colors of the Wind").
• 1996 Won Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for Lena Horne Award (Career Achievement).
• 1996 Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist for "Where Do We Go From Here" from the motion picture, "Eraser"
• 1996 Nominated for Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Action ("Eraser").
• 1997 Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album ("Star Bright").
• 1997 Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album - ("Next").
• 1997 Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Best Actress - Television Movie, Mini-Series, or Dramatic Special ("The Odyssey").
• 1997 Won NAACP Image Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture ("Soul Food").
• 1997 Nominated for Online Television Academy Awards for Best Guest Actress - Syndicated Series ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine").
• 1997 Nominated for Black Film Awards for Best Actress - Motion Picture ("Soul Food").
• 1999 Nominated for A.L.M.A. Award for Best Song from A Movie - "You Are My Home" from the motion picture, "Dance With Me".
• 2000 Nominated for Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Action ("Shaft").
• 2000 Nominated for NAACP Image Award- Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture - ("Light It Up").
• 2001 Nominated for Drama League Award for Most Distinguished Performance ("Into the Woods").
• 2001 Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture ("Shaft").
• 2002 Won Golden Satellite Awards for Best Actress - Miniseries or Movie ("Keep the Faith, Baby").
• 2002 Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress - Television Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special ("Keep the Faith, Baby").
• 2002 Nominated for Black Reel Award for Network/Cable - Best Actress for ("Keep the Faith, Baby").
• 2002 Nominated for Tony Award for Best Performance By a Leading Actress In a Musical ("Into the Woods").
• 2002 Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album - Into The Woods (Vanessa Williams cast recording).
• 2004 Nominated for BET Comedy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Box Office Movie

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Notes

1. ^ Known for most of her career as Vanessa Williams, she ran into name conflict with actress Vanessa A. Williams who was also using the name as her stage name. Screen Actors Guild rules prohibit duplicate naming, so this article's Vanessa Williams sometimes disambiguates herself as Vanessa L. Williams or Vanessa Lynn Williams in acting credits. In the 2000s, a gospel singer Vanessa R. Williams began recording under the name Vanessa Williams as well, making three contemporaneous and similarly aged African American performers with the same name.

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See also

• List of number-one hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

This is a list of number-one hits in the United States by year from the Billboard Hot 100. ... This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazines pop singles chart(s). ... This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by Billboard Magazine’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in U.S. dance clubs. ... This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazines Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. ...

External links

• Official Site
• Fan Site
• Vanessa L. Williams at The Internet Movie Database
• Vanessa Lynn Williams article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
• Evening at the Pops musical biography