Funeral Services are Confirmed for R&B Chanteuse Vesta Williams

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Funeral Services are Confirmed for R&B Chanteuse Vesta Williams

Vesta Williams funeral services has been confirmed by the family

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.

One of her former producers has come forward to admit that Vesta was depressed and was on medication. The producer of Vesta Williams’ David Crawford 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 veteran who produced Vesta’s first single “Once Bitten, Twice Shy.” “This last conversation she really did sound depressed. In fact, her speech didn’t seem to be clear, and she said, ‘If I’m slurring my words it’s because of the pill she was taking for her depression.’”

Williams was found dead of a possible drug overdose at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in an El Segundo, Calif. hotel room, Los Angeles County coroner’s Capt. John Kades said, adding an autopsy will determine the cause of death, and a toxicology examination will take six weeks to be completed. 

Crawford said Vesta had initially called him about two weeks ago requesting that he participate in her upcoming episode of TV One’s “Unsung.”

“She said ‘I’m going to call [the producers] right now and have them call you, but I had never heard from them, so I don’t know whether that happened or not,” he said in a phone interview on Sunday (Sept. 25). Crawford said he called her back days after that initial phone call to discuss an idea for a gospel song he wanted to produce for her. 

“In the last conversation, she was a little more open about how she was doing and that’s when I found out she was actually living in El Segundo at a hotel and she was saying how tough things were,” he revealed.

Crawford said he never asked what was making her depressed because he didn’t want to pry. “I thought at the time I would eventually get the whole story. I just didn’t want to push.”
In the audio below, Crawford reveals more of her last conversation with Williams – including her declaration that she is drug free.

Audio: David speaks about VESTA!

Well I guess at any rate it’s safe to say that now Lady Vesta is no longer suffering and truly at PEACE! Sleep on songbird and THANKS for your contributions to the R&B Industry!

Details have Emerged in the Death of R&B Chanteuse Vesta Williams

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UPDATE: Details emerge in the death of Vesta Williams and also her upcoming “UNSUNG” episode.

Details have emerged regarding that death of R&B singer Vesta Williams, who was found dead in her California hotel room.

R&B Chanteuse singer Vesta Williams, 53, was found dead in her El Segundo, CA hotel room Thursday night.
According to Los Angeles County coroner's Capt. John Kades, Vesta was found dead at 6:15pm on Thursday night and officials also discovered several empty prescription pill bottles.

Mary Vesta Williams (December 1, 1957 – September 22, 2011) was an American R&B singer. Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was sometimes simply billed as Vesta from the 1990s onwards.[2] Although Williams never had any albums certified gold nor any Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, she scored six Top 10 hits on the US Billboard R&B chart from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. Williams was known for the hits "Once Bitten, Twice Shy," "Sweet Sweet Love," "Congratulations" and "Special.".

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 sister. We’ve been friends for over 15 years and we worked together, sang together, partied together, loved together, and we spoke quite often as family does,” Young told EURWeb’s Lee Bailey in an exclusive phone interview.

With an episode of TV One’s “Unsung” in the works, Norwood said the powerhouse singer “was at another highpoint in her life” when she passed. While TMZ.com is reporting of “multiple bottles of prescription pills – some empty” – found in her hotel room, and that her death is being treated as either an accident or suicide, Norwood insists this was “absolutely not” a suicide. 

Listen: Norwood says her death wasn't a suicide!

Norwood said Williams was living at the hotel where her body was found because she was in the process of moving from her apartment to a new place. He said he knew something was wrong on Sunday when she failed to return his phone call as quickly as she normally does.

In the audio below, Norwood explains Vesta’s excitement over shooting “Unsung” and details the timeline of events leading up to her death.
Listen:Norwood speaks on Vesta and the future!

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 a great shock and we share our heart felt condolences with her family and fans around the world.

‘A planned tribute was in the works for Teena Marie, who passed away suddenly last year after her performance in the 20th DIVAS, which was her final public performance. We will now pay tribute to both of these outstanding artists.”

Other scheduled performers include Kelly Price, Jennifer Lewis, Frenchie Davis, and Niecy Nash. There will also be a reunion of Broadway’s original “Dreamgirls” cast, which includes Ralph, Jennifer Holiday and Loretta Devine.

DIVAS Simply Singing! takes place Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 4401 West 8th Street, Los Angeles. Tickets range from $35 to $250. For tickets and information, go to www.brownpapertickets.com, call (800) 838-3006, or contact the Wilshire Ebell Theatre box office (323) 931-1277.

VIDEO FLASHBACK; Vesta Williams - Don't Blow A Good Thing

For now, law enforcement is treating the death as either an accident or suicide. A cause of death will likely be determined after a coroner's examination has taken place, which could take 6 weeks.

All so so sad! 
R.I.P Lady Vesta and THANKS for your contributions to the R&B Music industry!

BREAKING NEWS:VESTA WILLIAMS FOUND DEAD IN L.A HOTEL!

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R&B Singer ‘Vesta Williams’ Found Dead in Hotel Room

R.I.P. to R&B singer Vesta Williams, who was found dead in a hotel room in Los Angeles. Vesta produced Top 10 R&B hits “Sweet Sweet Love”, “4 U”, and “Congratulations”

Our condolences goes out to her family.

UPDATED AT @3:00 PM
Vesta Williams, the diva known for her powerful voice and 80's hits, was found dead in her California hotel room last night, according to reports. Though news sources have reported the singer was 48 years old,Williams can be seen in a 2010 interview saying she was 53.

TMZ is reporting that bottles of prescription pills were found in the hotel room, and that the authorities are treating the singer's death as an accident or suicide.
Williams scored a big hit with "Congratulations," a song about a woman who is distraught upon learning that her former lover is getting married. "Congratulations," with its vocal acrobatics and dramatic story, became a talent show staple.

In the 1990s, Williams made headlines for her dramatic weight loss. She told Ebony that she started to rapidly gain weight when her singing career began to falter. Williams, who was 5-foot-3, eventually reached a size 26. She said her size was the reason she lost her recording contract. 

"When I lost my record deal and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong," she said. "I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look."

The singer went on to lose 100 lbs, and got down down to a size 6, while finding something of a second career as a songwriter and session singer.

In recent years, Williams had become an advocate for the prevention of childhood obesity and juvenile diabetes.Pray for Vesta’s family and all of us who are FANS of the R&B Songstress!


Celebs have been tweeting like crazy!

For those that do not know who she is..

Here are some vids from the legendary songstress!

"Once Bitten,Twice Shy"

"Congratulations"

"Sweet, Sweet Love"

stay tuned to The Chronicles for any information on funeral services!

R.I.P MY BELOVED SISTA!