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FAITH EVANS BIOGRAPHY |
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Raised in New Jersey by her mother and grandparents, Faith Evans
began to develop her vocal talents in the church choir at the
age of two, later moving on to roles in musicals during her high
school years. After graduation, a brief postponement of her
ambitions to become a professional singer was made to pursue a
scholarship at Fordham University, but within a year Faith Evans
would fully commit herself to a career in the music industry.
Faith Evans initially established herself as a songwriter and
background singer, penning tracks for Mary J. Blige and adding
her voice to recordings by Color Me Badd and Pebbles. Faith
Evans's work eventually attracted the interest of Sean Puff
Daddy Combs, who made Faith Evans the first female signing to
his Bad Boy label and produce her 1995 eponymous debut; the
album reached #2 on the R&B charts and featured three popular
singles, including the duet with her friend Blige, Love Don't
Live Here Anymore. That same year she married fellow Bad Boy
recording artist Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace a mere
nine days after being introduced at publicity shoot. Faith Evans
would subsequently appear on his platinum single One More Chance.
In 1997 Wallace was assassinated in the absurd culmination of
feud between East and West Coast hip-hop camps; soon after,
Combs would release the tribute song I'll Be Missing You,
featuring vocal contributions from Faith Evans. The next record
of her own, Keeping the Faith, did not surface until 1998 and
met with somewhat diminshed success from that of Faith Evans's
debut, although the single Love Like This and her contributions
to Whitney Houston's Heartbreak Hotel album would both earn her
Grammy nominations.
In the early 2000s, Faith Evans founded her own production
company, Pedigree MGI, with second husband/manager Todd Russaw
and released a third album, Faithfully. The album earned Evans
another two Grammy nominations and restored some forward
momentum to her career. Several ventures into acting were also
made during this time, including a role in The Fighting
Temptations (2003). |
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