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Faith Evans Profile |
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Birth Date: June 10, 1973
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Birth Place: Lakeland, Florida, USA
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Birth Name: Faith Renée Evans
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Faith Evans is an American singer-songwriter, record
producer, actress and author. Born in Lakeland, Florida and
raised in Newark, New Jersey, Evans moved to Los Angeles in
1993 for a career in music business. After working as a
backing vocalist for Al B. Sure, she became the first female
artist to be signed to Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy
Entertainment label in 1994, on which she released three
platinum-certified studio albums between the years of 1995
and 2001. In 2003, she left the label to sign with Capitol
Records.
Next to her recording career, Evans is widely known as the
widow of New York rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G."
Wallace, whom she married on August 4, 1994, 3 weeks after
meeting at a Bad Boy photoshoot. The turbulent marriage led
to Evans' involvement in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop
feud, dominating the rap scene at the time, and ended with
Wallace's murder in a yet-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los
Angeles in March 1997. A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff
Daddy and 112, entitled "I'll Be Missing You," became Evans'
biggest-selling hit to date and won her a Grammy Award in
1998.
Also an avocational actress and writer, Evans made her big
screen debut in the 2000 musical drama Turn It Up by Robert
Adetuyi. Her self-written autobiography Keep the Faith: A
Memoir was released by Grand Central Publishing in 2008 and
was nominated in 2009 for an African American Literary
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Other
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Children: Chyna (b. 1993) with music promoter Kiyamma
Griffin, Christopher (b. 1996) with The Notorious B.I.G.,
and Joshua (b. 1998).
Was dubbed the "First Lady of Bad Boy" when she was signed
to 'Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs' 's record label.
She is of biracial ethnicity; her mother's black and her
father's white. She's never met her father, he left when she
was very young.
Her song "Love Like This" was sampled by Fatman Scoop and
the Crooklyn Clan and used on the song 'Be Faithful'. (2003)
Half Italian on father's side.
Gave birth to fourth child Ryder Evan Russaw was [B. March
22, 2007].
Is portrayed by Antonique Smith in Notorious (2009). |
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since October 27, 2009