Faith Evans

Faith Rene Evans is an American singersongwriter, record producer, 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 platinumcertified studio albums between 1995 and 2001, including Faith , Keep the Faith and Faithfully .

Evans was born on June 10, 1973, in New Jersery to an African American mother, Helene Evans, a professional singer. Her father, Richard Swain, who was Caucasian, was a musician who left before Evans was born . A halfyear later, 19yearold Helene returned to Newark, New Jersey and left Faith with her cousin Johnnie Mae and husband Orvelt Kennedy, the foster parents of more than 100 children they raised during the time that Faith lived with them. Faith had known Johnnie Mae and Orvelt Kennedy as her grandparents. It was not until a couple of years later that Helenes career floundered and she tried to take Evans back home. Faith, however, was afraid to leave what shed been used to, and instead, Helene relocated next door.

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