Faith Evans

Faith Renée Evans born June 10 1973 is an American singersongwriter 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 Entertainment recording company during 1994 for which she released three platinumcertified studio albums between the years 1995 and 2001 During 2003 she ended her relationship with the company to contract with Capitol Records Other than her recording career Evans is known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher The Notorious BIG Wallace whom she married on August 4 1994 a few weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photoshoot The turbulent marriage resulted in Evans involvement in the East CoastWest Coast hip hop feud dominating the rap music news at the time and ended with Wallaces murder in a yetunsolved driveby shooting in Los Angeles California during March 1997 A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff Daddy and the band 112 named Ill Be Missing You became Evans bestselling song to date and won her a Grammy Award during 1998 Also an avocational 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 during 2008 and won a 2009 African American Literary Award for the Best BiographyMemoir category Description above from the Wikipedia article Faith Evans licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia