American singer
Born: March 18, 1963
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, actress and ex-model. She became the first African American woman to be crowned Miss America in 1983. Thereafter, Vanessa Williams made her mark as a model, singer, songwriter and actor. Though Miss America title helped kick-start her career, the journey did not come easy. She had to resign her title a few weeks before the end of her reign as Penthouse magazine announced that they would be publishing her nude photographs. She, however, bounced back from the Miss America controversy and pursued a successful singing and acting career. Her debut album, The Right Stuff, was a moderate success; it was foil lowed by eight more studio albums, each of which received commercial success. As an actress also, Vanessa Williams enjoyed success on stage and screen. For her portrayal of Teri Joseph in in the 1997 comedy-drama film Soul Food , Vanessa received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture.
Vanessa Williams’s 5 most popular quotes
- I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
- The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
- Sometimes the very thing you’re looking for is the one thing you cannot see.
- Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.
- You’re always going to have people that are naysayers, that don’t believe in your talent, that don’t believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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