Stacia L. Brown: Vesta Williams ‘Unsung’: An Uplifting, Heartbreaking Look At An R&B Dynamo (TV Squad)
One of the biggest black pop culture shocks of2011 was the sudden passing of
Vesta Williams in September at age 53. Her unexpected and untimely death was
just one in a long string of mysteries surrounding her life. What happened?
Where had she been? Why hadn’t she hit it bigger?
Tonight’s season premiere of TV One’s “Unsung” will answer all those questions
and more. Vesta Williams showed early promise with a hit record, “Once Bitten,
Twice Shy” on her debut album. With a lyric like, “Your name is Dracula/You
suck the life right out of me,” she couldn’t lose. But it wasn’t until her
next album that she became a folk heroine for black women everywhere with the
single, “Congratulations.” Sistas still remember where they were when they
heard that song for the first time–or when they first dusted it off and
played it on repeat, after experiencing the gut-wrenching heartache of a love,
not just lost to them, but married to someone else.
It seems inconceivable that someone who could convey betrayal and loss so
beautifully would lose the opportunity to claim the fame and fortune she
seemed destined to achieve. Vesta had just …
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