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*Every year, we lose members of the African American family that have been instrumental and encouraging to our lives. Those that have used their talents to increase our lives are worthy of remembrance and this year the list is filled with dynamic individuals of note. Vesta Williams and Heavy D were huge shocks to everyone [...]
*From one Birthday Bash to another Birthday Celebration, on December 4, 2010, Vesta Williams did a comeback concert to celebrate her birthday at the Punch TV Network studios. Joseph Collins CEO and good friend was honored to help usher in the rebirth of Vesta’s career by opening the doors of Punch TV for her thing [...]
*The family of late R&B veteran Vesta Williams has urged the media to respect their privacy while they await toxicology results that confirm her cause of death. Williams, 53, was found dead in an El Segundo, California hotel room last week. A coroner’s report suggested she died of a possible drug overdose. Her family says [...]
*Industry veteran Norwood Young has released a statement addressing some reports surrounding the death of his close friend Vesta Williams, including speculation that she may have tried to take her life. The singer’s body was found Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 at approximately 4:30 p.m. in a Los Angeles hotel, where, according to Young, she was staying [...]
*A lot of people have been waiting for this information. Funeral Services for singer Vesta Williams will be held at West Angeles Church of God in Christ 3045 S. Crenshaw Blvd. (North Campus), Los Angeles, California Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Further details, such as the start time, will be furnished by the family.
*The first time I saw Vesta Williams was in the mid 1970s at the Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd., singing back up for Bobby Womack. At the time, Womack’s recording career was in the middle of one of its highs, and he put on a rip-roaring set. The Ohio-born Vesta, who at the time might [...]
*The producer of Vesta Williams’first single recently shared with us his last conversation with the late singer in which he says she revealed a struggle with depression and that she was taking medication to treat it. “She said that she was seeing a therapist because she had been depressed,” says David Crawford, a music industry [...]
*Vesta Williams was scheduled to participate in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s 21st DIVAS Simply Singing event next month when she passed away. Deeply saddened at the news, Ralph stated that “We were thrilled in anticipation of having Vesta join the cast of this year’s 21st annual Divas Simply Singing! AIDS benefit concert. Her passing came as [...]
*Music industry veteran Norwood Young says he was in the process of booking his close friend Vesta Williams as the first guest for his new Internet talk show set to premiere next month when he heard the shocking news that her body was discovered Thursday in an El Segundo, CA hotel room. “Vesta was like my [...]
*Upon hearing the devastating news about the death of singer Vesta Williams this morning, her close friend Bowlegged Lou reached out to EURweb’s Lee Bailey to mourn her passing and to share with us his recent conversations with her. In the unedited phone conversation with Bailey below, the Full Force frontman – real name Lucien [...]
*EUR is deeply saddened to hear that singer Vesta Williams has passed away. She was 53 Los Angeles County coroner’s Capt. John Kades says Williams was found dead at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in an El Segundo hotel room. An autopsy will determine the cause of death, but Kades says “this could be a drug overdose.” [...]
*What does this all mean? Did Norwood rob a bank? Norwood Young is an R&B singer and philanthropist, so why would he commit such a sting operation? Well, Norwood or the Gatsby as I call him is one of the most imaginative and creative party givers I have ever met. For the release of his [...]
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