Vanessa Williams is the kind of grandma you’d expect her to be.
The actress chatted to Et Canada’s Carlos Bustamante about loving being a “mumsy” to 15-month-old grandson Sunny Rise.
Williams’ daughter Jillian Hervey welcomed Sunny in December 2021.
As Bustamante questioned whether Williams was a grandma who’d be “down in the dirt playing,” she replied that she was, adding: “I’m on the floor. I’m [like], ‘Let’s explore, let’s… I’m always singing. ‘Let’s make noise. Let’s go outside.’
“I have a little backpack for him. So we go and explore. [I’m like] ‘Let’s touch the flowers.’ I’m very tactile, and both my parents are music educators.
“So, like, education was always flashcards and ‘look at this’ and go to the museums and going to, you know, theatre and concerts and stuff. So I’m very into experiences.”
Williams continued to say of being a grandma,...
The actress chatted to Et Canada’s Carlos Bustamante about loving being a “mumsy” to 15-month-old grandson Sunny Rise.
Williams’ daughter Jillian Hervey welcomed Sunny in December 2021.
As Bustamante questioned whether Williams was a grandma who’d be “down in the dirt playing,” she replied that she was, adding: “I’m on the floor. I’m [like], ‘Let’s explore, let’s… I’m always singing. ‘Let’s make noise. Let’s go outside.’
“I have a little backpack for him. So we go and explore. [I’m like] ‘Let’s touch the flowers.’ I’m very tactile, and both my parents are music educators.
“So, like, education was always flashcards and ‘look at this’ and go to the museums and going to, you know, theatre and concerts and stuff. So I’m very into experiences.”
Williams continued to say of being a grandma,...
- 6/12/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Lion Babe announced a U.S. tour behind their newly released second LP, Cosmic Wind. The summer trek launches June 5th in Brooklyn, New York and wraps June 25th in Chicago, Illinois.
Some venue information is available on Facebook. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 5th at their website.
Cosmic Wind, which follows the R&B duo’s 2016 debut, Begin, includes the singles “The Wave” and the Raekwon-featured “Western World,” which interpolates the hook from Pet Shop Boys’ 1984 hit “West End Girls.” For the latter track, they issued a...
Some venue information is available on Facebook. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 5th at their website.
Cosmic Wind, which follows the R&B duo’s 2016 debut, Begin, includes the singles “The Wave” and the Raekwon-featured “Western World,” which interpolates the hook from Pet Shop Boys’ 1984 hit “West End Girls.” For the latter track, they issued a...
- 4/2/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Lion Babe and Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon hustle in a saloon and take on outlaws in the new video for “Western World.” The song appears on Lion Babe’s sophomore LP, Cosmic World, which will be released tomorrow. The album is the follow-up to the duo’s 2016 debut, Begin.
In the clip that recalls old Westerns, Lion Babe’s Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman appear on some dusty train tracks while the rhythms from their interpolation of Pet Shop Boys’ classic “West End Girls” comes in. As Hervey strolls the town,...
In the clip that recalls old Westerns, Lion Babe’s Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman appear on some dusty train tracks while the rhythms from their interpolation of Pet Shop Boys’ classic “West End Girls” comes in. As Hervey strolls the town,...
- 3/29/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Lion Babe address modern isolation and find solace on the dance floor in their Pet Shop Boys-inspired “Western World,” which features Raekwon. The track will appear on their forthcoming sophomore LP, Cosmic Wind, due out on March 29th. It’s the follow-up to their 2016 debut, Begin.
“Western World” interpolates Pet Shop Boys’ hypnotic rhythms from their Eighties classic “West End Girls” with added sultry funk twists and buoying hand claps. Singer Jillian Hervey croons about the loneliness and listless repetitiveness found navigating life in a “Western World” where “you...
“Western World” interpolates Pet Shop Boys’ hypnotic rhythms from their Eighties classic “West End Girls” with added sultry funk twists and buoying hand claps. Singer Jillian Hervey croons about the loneliness and listless repetitiveness found navigating life in a “Western World” where “you...
- 3/8/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
New York funk-soul duo Lion Babe ignite a funky, psychedelic dance party in their groovy “The Wave” video. The new song, which features Brooklyn rapper Leikeli47, will appear on the duo’s forthcoming album, Cosmic Wind.
In the vibrant clip, Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman groove alongside dancers as a kaleidoscope of colors swirl around their choreographed moves. “Everybody’s moving through the wave,” Hervey sings, which is as much a lyric as it is a pleasing command coupled with the song’s discofied beats and bass. “Feel the thunder in the bass line,...
In the vibrant clip, Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman groove alongside dancers as a kaleidoscope of colors swirl around their choreographed moves. “Everybody’s moving through the wave,” Hervey sings, which is as much a lyric as it is a pleasing command coupled with the song’s discofied beats and bass. “Feel the thunder in the bass line,...
- 1/25/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Multi-Platinum Recording Artist, Award Winning Actress and New York Times Best-Selling Author Vanessa Williams, as well as her daughter, Jillian Hervey of Electro-Soul duo, Lion Babe, appeared at Burlington’s flagship location in New York City to kick off Burlington’s seventh annual partnership with WomenHeart to #KnockOutHeartDisease.
Vanessa Williams and her daughter, Jillian Hervey
Credit/Copyright: Amy Sussman/Invision for Burlington Stores/AP Images
Both women received their free heart health screenings and shared how heart disease has impacted their family. Vanessa is no stranger to heart disease, having lost both grandmothers to the illness. Vanessa’s parents made a conscious effort to change their heart health history, and Vanessa has carried on this tradition with Jillian and all her children by cooking healthy foods, staying active, and maintaining yearly check-ups.
How to Get Involved: From now until March 31st, consumers can get involved by visiting their local Burlington store and donating at check-out.
Vanessa Williams and her daughter, Jillian Hervey
Credit/Copyright: Amy Sussman/Invision for Burlington Stores/AP Images
Both women received their free heart health screenings and shared how heart disease has impacted their family. Vanessa is no stranger to heart disease, having lost both grandmothers to the illness. Vanessa’s parents made a conscious effort to change their heart health history, and Vanessa has carried on this tradition with Jillian and all her children by cooking healthy foods, staying active, and maintaining yearly check-ups.
How to Get Involved: From now until March 31st, consumers can get involved by visiting their local Burlington store and donating at check-out.
- 2/13/2018
- Look to the Stars
Vanessa Williams‘ grandmother died at 28 from heart disease, so the Ugly Betty actress and her daughter, Jillian Hervey, care deeply about heart health.
They’ve partnered with the WomenHeart organization and Burlington Stores to raise awareness and prevention for heart disease. “I’ve always been involved with heart awareness and heart disease because of my family history,” Williams told People at the Burlington flagship store in New York City on Feb. 6.
“It’s about awareness and taking control of your health,” said Williams. “If there is an issue, don’t be afraid to have the courage to see what it is,...
They’ve partnered with the WomenHeart organization and Burlington Stores to raise awareness and prevention for heart disease. “I’ve always been involved with heart awareness and heart disease because of my family history,” Williams told People at the Burlington flagship store in New York City on Feb. 6.
“It’s about awareness and taking control of your health,” said Williams. “If there is an issue, don’t be afraid to have the courage to see what it is,...
- 2/12/2018
- by Shelby Reitman
- PEOPLE.com
If you’ve long loved collecting Michael Kors handbags but always wished you could put your own stamp on them, today’s your lucky day. The popular designer just launched an interactive shopping experience on MichaelKors.com to allow to personalize handbags from the designer’s Mercer line (which includes a tote, duffle and crossbody bag) with everything from studded shoulder straps and furry pink keychains to city-themed stickers and your initials. And before you wait another second to try them out, the monogramming is complimentary. You already clicked over, didn’t you?
Watch: Blake Lively Stuns in Red Michael Kors...
Watch: Blake Lively Stuns in Red Michael Kors...
- 3/1/2017
- by Kaitlyn Frey
- PEOPLE.com
When you're passing down genes as enviable as these, why not keep it all in the family? Vanessa Williams and her singer-songwriter daughter Jillian Hervey appear on the cover of Essence's January 2017 issue, but they're not the only mother-daughter duo who tend to turn up during your weekly magazine stand perusal while in the grocery store checkout line. Cindy Crawford and budding model Kaia Gerber graced the cover of French Vogue earlier this year (looking more like sisters than a mother-daughter duo to be completely honest), and fellow catwalk queen Kate Moss has also tapped her teen for a gorgeous cover shot. For even more mother-daughter magazine...
- 12/8/2016
- E! Online
Fierceness certainly runs in this family.
Vanessa Williams and her daughter, Lion Babe singer Jillian Hervey, make for a powerful mother-daughter duo on the cover of Essence magazine's January issue.
Watch: Jada Pinkett Smith Shares Pic of Chic 'Date Night' With Daughter Willow at Star-Studded Chanel Show
The 53-year-old actress and singer excitedly posted the cover to Instagram, writing: "New cover alert! Truly proud to be sharing this with my daughter, @LionBabe."
The release of Williams and Hervey's Essence magazine issue comes just a few days after the two attended the VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night event in Brooklyn. "If people call me a diva, I say, 'I got if from my mama,'" Hervey, 27, said upon introducing her mother, who performed her 1992 hit, "Save the Best for Last."
On Instagram, Hervey also revealed that she was wearing Williams' dress to the event, and paid tribute to her famous mom. "A salute...
Vanessa Williams and her daughter, Lion Babe singer Jillian Hervey, make for a powerful mother-daughter duo on the cover of Essence magazine's January issue.
Watch: Jada Pinkett Smith Shares Pic of Chic 'Date Night' With Daughter Willow at Star-Studded Chanel Show
The 53-year-old actress and singer excitedly posted the cover to Instagram, writing: "New cover alert! Truly proud to be sharing this with my daughter, @LionBabe."
The release of Williams and Hervey's Essence magazine issue comes just a few days after the two attended the VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night event in Brooklyn. "If people call me a diva, I say, 'I got if from my mama,'" Hervey, 27, said upon introducing her mother, who performed her 1992 hit, "Save the Best for Last."
On Instagram, Hervey also revealed that she was wearing Williams' dress to the event, and paid tribute to her famous mom. "A salute...
- 12/7/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Even beauty queen Vanessa Williams isn’t immune to Hollywood’s ageist tendencies.
The actress, 53, recalls an incident in which a director of photography didn’t like the way her face was looking on screen.
“The Dp asks my makeup artist, ‘What am I to do?’ ” Williams recounted while speaking to Essence in the January issue for her cover story with daughter Jillian Hervey, on newsstands Friday.
She responded by telling her makeup artist, “This is 53. This is what it looks like. Tell the Dp to learn how to light it!”
Williams also spoke about how she has been able...
The actress, 53, recalls an incident in which a director of photography didn’t like the way her face was looking on screen.
“The Dp asks my makeup artist, ‘What am I to do?’ ” Williams recounted while speaking to Essence in the January issue for her cover story with daughter Jillian Hervey, on newsstands Friday.
She responded by telling her makeup artist, “This is 53. This is what it looks like. Tell the Dp to learn how to light it!”
Williams also spoke about how she has been able...
- 12/7/2016
- by gabrielleolya1
- PEOPLE.com
Vanessa Williams and husband Jim Skrip are celebrating their approaching one-year wedding anniversary by walking down the aisle all over again!
William and Skrip were first married on July 4 last year, but tied the knot again in a Catholic ceremony on Monday.
"Yesterday we took one last walk down the aisle – this time in my little church," Williams wrote on Instagram. "Officially wedded Catholic. Amen! #MyJim."
The 53-year-old picked a Pamella Roland dress for the occasion which featured a subtle v-neck and included a pink sash tied around her waist. Williams wore her hair in a wave and loose chignon,...
William and Skrip were first married on July 4 last year, but tied the knot again in a Catholic ceremony on Monday.
"Yesterday we took one last walk down the aisle – this time in my little church," Williams wrote on Instagram. "Officially wedded Catholic. Amen! #MyJim."
The 53-year-old picked a Pamella Roland dress for the occasion which featured a subtle v-neck and included a pink sash tied around her waist. Williams wore her hair in a wave and loose chignon,...
- 6/1/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- People.com - TV Watch
Vanessa Williams and husband Jim Skrip are celebrating their approaching one-year wedding anniversary by walking down the aisle all over again! William and Skrip were first married on July 4 last year, but tied the knot again in a Catholic ceremony on Monday. "Yesterday we took one last walk down the aisle - this time in my little church," Williams wrote on Instagram. "Officially wedded Catholic. Amen! #MyJim." The 53-year-old picked a Pamella Roland dress for the occasion which featured a subtle v-neck and included a pink sash tied around her waist. Williams wore her hair in a wave and loose chignon,...
- 6/1/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
Vanessa Williams and husband Jim Skrip are celebrating their approaching one-year wedding anniversary by walking down the aisle all over again! William and Skrip were first married on July 4 last year, but tied the knot again in a Catholic ceremony on Monday. "Yesterday we took one last walk down the aisle - this time in my little church," Williams wrote on Instagram. "Officially wedded Catholic. Amen! #MyJim." The 53-year-old picked a Pamela Roland dress for the occasion which featured a subtle v-neck and included a pink sash tied around her waist. Williams wore her hair in a wave and loose chignon,...
- 6/1/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
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