You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-Nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (37 page)

“Where You Are” with my boys, as Aurora in
Kiss of the Spider Woman
, 1994

Into the Woods
curtain call with John McMartin on Broadway, 2002

With Rick Valenzuela at the International Ballroom Championships, Boston, 1998

Performing the national anthem at Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, Arizona (Steelers vs. Cowboys), January 1996

With my fabulous band and crew on our national tour with Luther Vandross, 1997

Vanessa Williams & Friends: Christmas in New York
TV special with Luther Vandross and Shania Twain, 1996

Christmas concert with Plácido Domingo and Tony Bennett, in Vienna, 2000

Me and Mom in Chicago with megamogul Oprah Winfrey

Sting surprised me in the studio with background vocals when I covered “Sister Moon.”

At the Jackie Robinson Awards honoring the legendary Lena Horne, New York, 1984

Arnold presented me with the Lena Horne Award at the Soul Train Music Awards, Los Angeles, 1996

Always classy and elegant, the legendary Diahann Carroll played my mother in
The Courage to Love
, on location in Canada, 1999.

And the sizzling siren Eartha Kitt played my mom in
And Then Came Love
, New York, 2006.