She’s mostly  mistaken for the first ever Black-American fashion model, actress and singer to win Miss America beauty pageant in 1983, because they both share the same name ‘Vanessa Williams’,but while  this Vanessa William isn’t the one that sang the Pochohontas’s ‘Colours of the Wind’ and appeared  in films such as ‘Shaft’, ‘Eraser,” Our Vanessa Williams did feature  in Wesley Snipes’ ‘New Jack City’, ‘Sarafina’,and TV series like ‘Soulfood’ and ‘Melrose Place’.