Deniece Williams

This week's episode of Questlove Supreme features the beautiful voice of Deniece Williams. After working with Stevie Wonder and Earth Wind & Fire, Niecy broke out into a Grammy-winning solo career that has spanned decades and multiple genres.

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(September 24, 2021) One of the true musical darlings in the 1970s and 80s, Deniece Williams brought her crystalline soprano voice and her underrated songwriting skills to the R&B world, topping the charts with such diverse, irresistible songs as "Silly," "Black Butterfly" and countless other gems. She then followed with an equally impressive Gospel career that helped establish her as one of the great voices of her generation.

Variety. Diversity. Inclusion. Artistic expression. In an era of reckoning, those are lofty ideals that all should aspire to. But when the shallow and narrow-minded deem themselves as the only tastemakers that matter, those who don't 'fit' the 'standard' have to go with the flow or forge their own paths. Navy caught our interest by choosing the latter, and that truth is expressed in her latest single and musical mantra, "One Shot."

April 15, 1978 – Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams hit #1 with “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late”. By the time 1978 rolled around, Johnny Mathis had already been a superstar for more than two decades, and one of the biggest selling artists of the entire century. On the other hand, 27 year old Deniece Williams (16 years Mathis’s junior) was an up-and-coming singer who had broken out as a solo artist just three years earlier, but had quickly established herself as a uniquely gifted vocalist.

The “NJPAC Backstage” series, which has been offering online interviews throughout the pandemic, will continue with interviews by Latoya Dawson with neo-soul singer-songwriter Anthony Hamilton, Feb. 18; rapper and actor Redman, Feb. 25; and pop and gospel singer Deniece Williams, March 4. All the interviews will begin at 7 p.m. on Facebook.com/NJPAC.