Autobiography of faith evans

(1973-)

Who Is Faith Evans?

With her powerful, honeyed soprano and talent for songwriting and record production, Faith Evans is one of R&B's all-time greats, despite her name forever being linked to hip hop through her association with Bad Boy Records and her marriage to the rap legend, the Notorious B.I.G.

Evans became known as the First Lady of Bad Boy after Sean "Puffy" Combs signed her to his influential label in 1994. The same year, Evans married Christopher Wallace — aka the Notorious B.I.G. — and found herself at the center of the bitter East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry, which would claim the lives of Wallace and his great rival, Tupac Shakur, in 1996-97.

Mother to Wallace's son, CJ (Evans already had a daughter, Chyna, and later had two more sons, Joshua and Ryder), she was eventually able to move on with her life and channel her heartbreak into her music — notably on her Grammy-winning tribute to her late husband, "I'll Be Missing You