Next came the Top 25 pop, Top Five RBhip-hop singles You Used to Love Me and Soon as I Get Home, which propelled Faith, Evans debut album, to platinum status.Īs Evans solo career was in ascent across 19, her work appeared on numerous high-profile projects, including material from Teddy Thompson, Pebbles, Total, Monifah, Color Me Badd, Horace Brown, A Tribe Called Quest, Case, 112, and Soul for Real. While working on Usher, for which she co-wrote six tracks and sang backup, Evans was offered a Bad Boy contract by Sean Puffy Combs.

Sure, Hi-Five, Christopher Williams, Usher, and Mary J.īlige. Recordings from Evans became less frequent after she scored a fourth hit with the 2005 Capitol release The First Lady, which topped the RBhip-hop chart and was another gold-seller.Įvery few years through the next decade, she added to her discography with another set of rich, adult-oriented RB, including Something About Faith, released in 2010 on her own Prolific label, and the 2017 album The King I, consisting of duets with Biggie.īorn in Lakeland, Florida, Faith Evans grew up in Newark, New Jersey, where she began singing in church at the age of two.Ī high-school honor student, she performed in her schools musical productions and earned a scholarship to Fordham University.Īfter one year, she left the Bronx campus to put her jazz and classical training to use in the field of contemporary RB.įrom 1992 through 1994, she wrote songs andor sang backup for Al B. Evans run with Bad Boy also included the Biggie tribute Ill Be Missing You, a number one pop hit in 1997 and subsequent Grammy winner in the category of Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.

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