Artist: Vesta Title Of Album: Seven Year Of Release: 2013 Label: Bronx Bridge Entertainment, Inc. Genre: R&B, Soul Quality: Mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps Total Time: 41:25 Min Total Size: 105 Mb Tracklist: 01.Water On the World 02.Better Days 03.Silly 04.What Is This 05.Hold On 06.Five Ways 07.All You Girls 08.Dedicated 09.Can We Talk About It 10.Truth of the Matter 11.Rewind “We didn’t have a name at the time,’ said Devon Collins owner of Stimuli Films which is releasing the seventh album of the deceased vocal legend. “This goes back a long time. We been friends for years and she asked to do a record in 1995…we stayed in touch. I was in L. A. talking about starting a record label…and Vesta’s name came up and while we were there Vesta called me.” As I listened to the story behind the last recorded music of Vesta Williams, told by Devon and the album’s producer Tony Nicholas, it became clear to me she – if even subconsciously – knew her days here were coming to a completion. “She still had that voice…to put out a good record,” he pointed out. “We had just completed it and I asked her several times (about the title) and she kept saying, ‘Seven represents completion.’ She really wanted that ‘home’ feel. It was really an important album to her.” Edwin Nicholas, Devon Collins and Kahlil I. Pedizisai produced the “Seven” project for Vesta who began singing as backup for Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Stephanie Mills and Anita Baker. She released her own album in 1989 titled “Vesta 4U.” Her third album “Special” garnered a #2 R&B Chart topper for the single of the same name. Other hits that came out of her previous six recorded album releases include “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” and “Sweet, Sweet, Love.” “She knew something. A lot of the things she said only now make sense,” Tony said about Vesta. “She really wanted to give back. We brainstormed a social campaign around…young women.” “I kept asking her, completion of what?” Devon added. “She was adamant that in seven months she wanted it to come out.” Vesta Williams “Seven” just released its first single “Better Days,” a powerful and uplifting farewell gift. (Eunice Moseley) |