by Jason AnkenyR&B singer/songwriter Vesta Williams shot to success with her 1986 hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"; Vesta 4 U, issued two years later, launched another smash, "Congratulations." Subsequent efforts were less successful, however, and after 1993's Everything-N-More, she left longtime label A&M a five-year hiatus preceded the release of Vesta's next LP, Relationships, and the covers set Distant Lover followed in 2007.