Faith Renee Evans (born June 10, 1973 in Lakeland, Florida and grew up inside Newark, New Jersey) is an R&B singer/songwriter who rose to fame even while under the shadows of her famous late husband, hip-hop icon The Notorious B.I.G.. Evans' father is Italian-American; her mother is African-American.

Biography
When many years perfoming jazz standards at clubs & dropping away from college fallowing her first-month year, the girl of a whiten rocker & R&B backup singer decided to begin a music career, first with a young musician named Kiyamma Griffin, and later with rising hip-hop/R&B record producer Sean "Puffy" Combs, who was forming his own label, Bad Boy Records at the time.

the breadwinner of that label was a large, immature rapper from either Brooklyn, New York named Christopher Wallace. Evans took the liking to the immature rapper because of his charm & the romance resumed around what late became the quick fix marriage Tenner years when meeting every more. Prior to a marriage, though, Evans was signed to Bad Boy & became a number 1 female creative person of the label -- and the virtually all successful creative person 2nd to her newly married man.

Everyone number 1 catch a glimpse at Faith while she was featured on the remix to Biggie's 1995 hit, "One More Chance". Advance, Faith experienced be to broaden as a gifted songster penning hits for Mary J. Blige and Intro. She eventually freed her long-awaited debut in the fall of 1995. A self-titled "Faith" Video became a hit according to the songs "Soon as I Get Home", "You Used to Love Me" & "Ain't Nobody".

the album reached pt status per period a rap war got get raging between Biggie and prolific rapper Tupac Shakur, which turned personal for each when Tupac alleged that he got know Evans. Faith, world health organization was pregnant by using Biggie's child, was outraged because she said she got lone met Tupac for the recording.

A contention turned horrible when Tupac's tragical dying inside September, 1996 at Las Vegas. A few got speculated Biggie could got participate around his demise likewise when a 1994 shooting of Tupac in New York before he was to be within the recording session & this triggered the plot to obliterate Biggie. Per period of her birth to their boy, C.J., inside late 1996, a few's marriage got fallen apart due to the hip-hop contention & rumour of Biggie's philandering.

Faith was there at the Soul Train music awards party in which Biggie was attending on the nighttime of March 8, 1997 in Los Angeles, California. Unluckily, it would become a endure instance Faith would hear from either her married man. Two or three hours fallowing she left the club, news experienced spread that Biggie was gunned down inside a hail of gunfire by an unidentified attacker. Evans was devastated whilst she heard the news of his demise & went across a deep depression.

Puffy helped develop Faith away from her gloom to record the tribute song to Biggie titled "I'll Be Missing You". A song, which featured Puffy, Evans, & Bad Boy Records group 112, would reach a top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1997 and stayed there for 11 weeks. the song won Puffy & Evans a Grammy for even Best Rap Vocal Performance by the Duo or Class action.

A next month, Evans freed her long-awaited watch-higher, "Keep the Faith". Unlike a solemn approach to her number one album, this album spoke of optimism, blast & love. Among its large hits include a Chic-sampled tracks "Love Like This" & "All Night Long". Babyface lended her a hit song using "Never Gonna Let You Go". Outside of her have albums, Evans detected an additional large hit sustaining Whitney Houston and Kelly Price on their hit song, "Heartbreak Hotel", around a equivalent instance.

Fallowing re-marrying & getting the third toddler, Evans freed her third album, 2001's "Faithfully", which included "You Gets No Love" & "I Love You". For the album's promotion, Evans went across the transformation around her physical appearance. Universally the big-compact woman, Evans shed all over L pounds & presented the sexier image that was present for the on line videos to "I Love You" & "Burnin' Up". Fatman Scoop also sampled her vocals on the song "Be Faithful" inside 2003, which reached #1 in the UK. Subsequently, Evans saved the moo profile until late-2004 when she & married man Todd Russaw were arrested for drug possession and camping under a influence. She & Russaw were sentenced to Terzetto years' probation and paid a mulct ([http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3440399.stm BBC News article]).

When the rut of bad news, Evans rebounded to record what numbers of of her fans use at times proclaimed when her strongest record up to now, "The First Lady" (freed in April 5, 2005. Fallowing locating profits by owning her Twista collaboration, "Hope", Evans freed her number 1 song of recently poop around leash years by owning "Again", a biographic account of her life struggles (its 2nd verse mentioned the 2004 incident). "The First Lady" come out commemorating her tenth day of remembrance in the industry & her 1st record in Capitol Records after leaving Badness Son within 2003. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 157,000 copies sold around its number one week, marking her big 1st week numbers of her career. "The First Lady" has been qualified gold purchasable of above 500,000 copies.

Discography

Albums
1995 Faith #22 US (Atomic number 78) 1998 Keep the Faith #6 US (Pt) 2001 Faithfully #14 US (Atomic number 78) 2005 The First Lady #2 US (Gold), #22 UK 2005 A Faithful Christmas (Date release: October 25)

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="4"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

| US Hot 100 | US R&B/Hip-Hop | US Dance | UK Singles Chart |- | 1995 | "You Used to Love Me" | #24 | #4 | - | #42 | Faith |- | 1995 | "Soon as I Get Home" | #21 | #3 | #1 | - | Faith |- | 1996 | "Ain't Nobody" | #67 | #14 | - | - | Faith |- | 1996 | "Come Over" | - | #56 | - | - | Faith |- | 1996 | "I Just Can't" | - | - | - | - | High School High Soundtrack |- | 1997 | "I'll Be Missing You" by owning P. Diddy & 112 | #1 | #1 | - | - | There is no Way Out |- | 1998 | "Love Like This" | #7 | #2 | - | #24 | Keep a Faith |- | 1999 | "Georgy Porgy" by having Eric Benet | #55 | #15 | - | - | The Day In The Life |- | 1999 | "All Night Long" (deed. Puff Daddy) | #9 | #3 | #4 | #23 | Keep a Faith |- | 1999 | "Never Gonna Let You Go" | #17 | #1 | - | - | Keep a Faith |- | 1999 | "Lately I" | - | #78 | - | - | Keep a Faith |- | 1999 | "Heartbreak Hotel" using Whitney Houston & Kelly Price | #2 | #1 | #1 | - | Our Love Is The Love |- | 2000 | "Love Is Blind" sustaining Eve | #34 | #11 | - | - | Let There Become Eve... |- | 2001 | "The Good Life (Remix)" (deed. Slaying, Inc.) | - | - | - | - | A Convenient & A Furious Soundtrack |- | 2001 | "Can't Believe" (exploit. Carl Thomas) | #56 | #14 | - | - | Faithfully |- | 2001 | "You Gets No Love" | #38 | #8 | - | - | Faithfully |- | 2002 | "I Love You" | #14 | #2 | - | - | Faithfully |- | 2002 | "Burnin' Up" (effort. Missy Elliott) | #60 | #19 | - | - | Faithfully |- | 2002 | "Alone In This World" | - | #73 | - | - | Faithfully |- | 2002 | "Brown Sugar (Extra Sweet)" by having Mos Def | - | #95 | - | - | Dark brown Sugar Soundtrack |- | 2003 | "Ma, I Don't Love Her" by using A Clipse | #86 | #40 | - | - | Lord Willin' |- | 2005 | "Again" | #47 | #7 | - | #10 | A 1st Lady |- | 2005 | "Mesmerized" | - | #56 | #1 | #48 | A Number 1 Lady |- | 2005 | "Tru Love" | pending | pending | - | - | A Number one Lady |}

Filmography
Turn It Up (2000) The Fighting Temptations (2003)