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Vanessa Williams was chosen to perform "Colors of the Wind" due to the success of her Grammy Award-nominated single "Save the Best for Last". [35] Williams' cover is a pop song [36] which omits the opening lyrics of the original version of the track. [3] The cover features Bill Miller playing the Native American flute. [37]
The lyrics of the song use imagery from the story; the line "Just like a flame, love burned brightly, then became an empty smoke dream that has gone. Gone with the wind", for example, evokes the inferno that consumed Tara. This song is not related to any of the well-known music featured in the 1939 film adaptation of the book. [3]
The soundtrack features two hit singles; "Colors of the Wind" performed by American singer and actress Vanessa Williams, and the film's love theme song "If I Never Knew You" performed by American singers Jon Secada and Shanice. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (for "Colors of the Wind").
Vanessa Williams recently opened up about her latest stage role, which featured some eerily relevant lyrics written in the 1950s.
Vanessa Lynn Williams [1] (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, model, producer, and dancer. She gained recognition as the first Black woman to win the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 .
Greatest Hits: The First Ten Years is the first greatest hits album (sixth overall) by American singer and actress Vanessa Williams, released in the US on November 17, 1998, on Mercury Records. It features eleven of her previous recordings from the ten years starting from 1988, plus a new recording, a cover of Bobby Caldwell 's "My Flame".
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
Vanessa Williams has opened up on the biggest culture shock of her time in the UK so far as she prepares to star in The Devil Wears Prada on London's West End. The Tony-nominated Ugly Betty star ...