Faith Evans
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Faith Renée Evans is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Lakeland, Florida, and raised in New Jersey, she relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 in pursuit of a recording career. Evans initially performed as a backing vocalist for R&B singers Al B. Sure! and Christopher Williams, and by the age of 20, signed with Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records as the label's first female artist in 1994. Following her uncredited appearance on labelmate the Notorious B.I.G.'s single "One More Chance", she released her debut studio album, Faith (1995), to critical acclaim and moderate commercial reception. Evans then guest performed alongside 112 on Combs' 1997 single "I'll Be Missing You," which won Best Rap Performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards and became the first hip hop song to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. Her second and third albums, Keep the Faith (1998) and Faithfully (2001), peaked at numbers six and 14 on the Billboard 200, respectively, and saw further critical praise.
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Lakeland, Florida, USA
Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career with the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Sure and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to be contracted with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy…
Known for
- Sean Combs: The Reckoning — Self (archive footage)2025
- Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Self - Christopher's Wife2021
- Hopelessly in Love: Faith Evans and Notorious B.I.G. — Faith Evans2020
- True to the Game 2 — Self2020
- The Masked Singer — Skunk2019
- The Masked Singer — Self2019
- Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story — Self2017
- Girls Trip — Faith Evans2017
- Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G. — Self2017
- Marvel's Luke Cage — Faith Evans2016
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1973
Discography
Member of
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Key facts
- Born
- Faith Renée Evans , ( 1973-06-10 ) June 10, 1973 (age 53) , Lakeland, Florida , U.S.
- Origin
- Newark, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- Fordham University (no degree)
- Genres
- R&B hip-hop soul
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter actress
- Works
- Faith Evans discography
- Years active
- 1994–present
- Labels
- Rhino E1 Prolific Capitol Bad Boy Arista BMG
- Spouses
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- Children
- 4, including C. J. Wallace
- Website
- faithevansmusic .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Renée
- Family name
- Evans
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lakeland
- Spouse
- Stevie J
- Child
- C.J. Wallace
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- contemporary R&B
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Official website
- www.faithevansmusic.com
- Image
- Faith Evans 1998.jpg
- Voice type
- soprano
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- Commons category
- Faith Evans
- date of birth
- 1973-06-10
- topic's main category
- Category:Faith Evans
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
- social media followers
- 399000
- writing language
- English language
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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Encyclopedic overview
Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Lakeland, Florida, and raised in New Jersey, she relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 in pursuit of a recording career. Evans initially performed as a backing vocalist for R&B singers Al B. Sure! and Christopher Williams, and by the age of 20, signed with Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records as the label's first female artist in 1994. Following her uncredited appearance on labelmate the Notorious B.I.G.'s single "One More Chance", she released her debut studio album, Faith (1995), to critical acclaim and moderate commercial reception. Evans then guest performed alongside 112 on Combs' 1997 single "I'll Be Missing You," which won Best Rap Performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards and became the first hip hop song to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. Her second and third albums, Keep the Faith (1998) and Faithfully (2001), peaked at numbers six and 14 on the Billboard 200, respectively, and saw further critical praise.
Evans parted ways with Bad Boy in favor of Capitol Records in 2003. Her fourth album, The First Lady (2005) peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and topped the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while her fifth album, A Faithful Christmas (2005)—a holiday album—failed to chart and served as her final release on a major label. After a hiatus, she released her sixth album, Something About Faith (2010) independently, followed by her seventh album, Incomparable (2014). With a career spanning three decades, Evans has sold over 20 million records worldwide.
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