Personally Speaking ep. 130 (Vanessa Williams)

In this episode of Personally Speaking, Msgr. Jim Lisante is joined by the Tony, Emmy and Grammy nominee Vanessa Williams. Vanessa’s best known television roles are Wilhelmina Slater on “Ugly Betty”, for which she was nominated three times for an Emmy Award, and Renee Perry on “Desperate Housewives”.  Her platinum single “Colors of the Wind” from Disney’s “Pocahontas” won the Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy for “Best Original Song”. Vanessa will be making her Diamond Series debut at 54Below in New York City in December where she’ll perform music from her catalog of chart topping hit songs, Broadway classics and American Songbook standards. She talks about that, her career, family and the Catholic faith that sustains her.