The title track solidified Williams' growing reputation for smooth, sexy adult pop, and the album went on to sell over two million copies. Her 1991 sophomore set The Comfort Zone was a star-maker it spawned another R&B chart-topper in "Running Back to You," but the real story was the ballad "Save the Best for Last," a ubiquitous across-the-board smash that became Williams' first number one pop hit.
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The Right Stuff went gold, and Williams subsequently appeared in several TV movies. The title track was a decent-sized hit, and the ballad "Dreamin'" became Williams' first Top Ten pop single, and went to number one on the R&B chart. Williams' debut album, The Right Stuff, was released in 1988, featuring a mix of urban dance-pop and adult contemporary balladry. All the renewed exposure eventually helped land her a record deal with Mercury/PolyGram subsidiary Wing.
Undaunted, Williams began to pursue her first love, singing she backed George Clinton on his 1986 album R&B Skeletons in the Closet, including the single "Do Fries Go with That Shake?" Williams also returned to acting, making her feature film debut with a small role in The Pickup Artist in 1987 the same year, she married her manager, Ramon Harvey.
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Williams had posed for a series of nude photos for Penthouse prior to her historic victory, and when the magazine published them in 1984, the ensuing scandal forced her to resign as Miss America. Unfortunately, her triumph was short-lived. In the meantime, she began entering beauty pageants, with considerable success in 1983, she represented New York in the Miss America pageant and became the first African-American woman ever to be crowned the winner. She loved performing musical theater as a teenager, and won a scholarship to study it at Syracuse University in 1981. Vanessa Lynn Williams was born March 18, 1963, in the upstate New York town of Millwood to parents who were both music teachers. In addition to her broad crossover appeal, she established a parallel acting career in both film and television, and became a highly successful all-around entertainer. Williams not only put the scandal behind her, she all but obliterated it, turning out a series of slick, sophisticated hits that made her one of the most popular adult contemporary R&B singers of her time. When Vanessa Williams began her singing career, she was known chiefly as the Miss America pageant winner who'd been forced to renounce her title for posing in Penthouse magazine.
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