Faith Renee Evans Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles in 1993 for a career in the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Sure and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to contract with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment recording company in 1994, for which she collaborated with several label mates such as Mary J. Blige and Carl Thomas and released three platinum-certified studio albums between 1995 and 2001, including Faith (1995), Keep the Faith (1998) and Faithfully (2001).In 2003, she ended her relationship with the company to contract with Capitol Records. Her first album released on the label, The First Lady (2005) became her highest-charting album at the time, reaching the top of the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, while the holiday album A Faithful Christmas, released the same year, would became her last release before the company was bought in 2007. Following a longer hiatus, Evans released her fifth album Something About Faith on the independent label Prolific/E1 Music in 2010.Other than her recording career, Evans is mostly known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, whom she married on August 4, 1994, a few weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photo shoot. The turbulent marriage resulted in Evans' involvement in the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry, dominating the rap music news at the time, and ended with Wallace's murder in a unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997. A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff Daddy and the band 112, named "I'll Be Missing You", won Evans a Grammy Award in 1998. Also an actress and writer, Evans made her screen debut in the 2000 musical drama Turn It Up by Robert Adetuyi. Her autobiography Keep the Faith: A Memoir was released by Grand Central Publishing in 2008 and won a 2009 African American Literary Award for the Best Biography/Memoir category.
University High School, Fordham University, I'll Be Missing You, Soon As I Get Home, Never Gonna Let You Go
Nationality
American
Spouse
Christopher Wallace AKA The Notorious B.I.G.
Children
Christopher Jordan Wallace, Joshua, Chyna, Ryder Evan Russaw, I'll Be Missing You, Soon As I Get Home, Never Gonna Let You Go
Parents
Helene Evans, Richard Swain, I'll Be Missing You, Soon As I Get Home, Never Gonna Let You Go
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video, Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song, Soul Train Music Award for Best Video of the Year, I'll Be Missing You, Soon As I Get Home, Never Gonna Let You Go
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance, Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, BET Award for Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, MTV Vid...
Movies
Soul Kittens Cabaret, The Fighting Temptations
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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[on her parents and her name] Everybody wasn't always too big on my mother having me. I believe at least probably my father. I don't think he wanted her to have the baby. So I really think that's what made her name me Faith. She had to keep the faith.
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Fact
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Release of her book, "Keep the Faith: A Memoir" by Faith with Aliya King. [2008]
Gave birth to fourth child Ryder Evan Russaw was [B. March 22, 2007].
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Her song "Love Like This" was sampled by Fatman Scoop and the Crooklyn Clan and used on the song 'Be Faithful'. (2003)
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She is of biracial ethnicity; her mother is black and her father is white. She has never met her father, as he left when she was very young. About her biological father, she has said, "I've heard people mumble something about him being Italian, but I don't know for sure".
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Was dubbed the "First Lady of Bad Boy" when she was signed to Sean Combs's record label.
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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).
$20 Million
