Faith Renee Evans was born on June 10,1973 and is an American singer, songwriter and actress.
20 Facts About Faith Evans
2.
Also an actress and writer, Faith Evans made her screen debut in the 2000 musical drama Turn It Up by Robert Adetuyi.
3.
Faith Evans was born on June 10,1973, in Lakeland, Florida, to an African American mother, Helene Faith Evans, a professional singer.
4.
Faith Evans's father, Richard Swain, was a musician of English and potential Italian descent who left before Evans was born; Evans has said "I've heard people mumble something about him being Italian, but I don't know for sure".
5.
Faith Evans had known Johnnie Mae and Orvelt Kennedy as her grandparents.
6.
Faith Evans was afraid to leave what she had "been used to," and instead, Helene relocated next door.
7.
Newly contracted to Bad Boy Records, Evans was consulted by executive producer Combs to contribute backing vocals and writing skills to Mary J Blige's My Life and Usher's self-titled debut album prior to starting work on her debut studio album Faith.
8.
Faith Evans became a success based on the singles "You Used to Love Me" and "Soon as I Get Home".
9.
Faith began dating Russaw during her and Wallace's separation and after Wallace died, Evans became pregnant by Russaw.
10.
Almost entirely written and produced by her, Faith Evans considered the album difficult to complete as she initially felt discouraged about the progress at first.
11.
Also enjoying commercial success, it eventually went platinum and produced the top ten singles "Love Like This" and "All Night Long" prompting Faith Evans to start an 18-city theater tour with Dru Hill and Total the following year.
12.
Faith Evans named the imprint Prolific Music Group and hired top talent to build the record label from scratch.
13.
Faith Evans began recording songs with Keyshia Cole, Redman, Snoop Dogg and Raekwon, among others for the labels freshman album.
14.
Faith Evans signed a deal with independent record label E1 Entertainment later that year.
15.
In May 2020, Evans was arrested for felony domestic violence against Stevie J She was released on bond and the charges were later dropped.
16.
In 2021, Faith Evans competed in season six of The Masked Singer as "Skunk".
17.
In 2009, Faith Evans announced that she had been working on a synopsis for her own situation comedy that would be based largely on her life but with a more comedic aspect.
18.
In November 2010, several sources stated that Faith Evans would portray Motown star Florence Ballard of the Supremes in an upcoming biopic, Blondie: The Florence Ballard Story.
19.
In 2014, Faith Evans showed support for Little Kids Rock by donating items for auction to raise money in support of music education in public schools.
20.
Faith Evans said that some of her biggest musical influences and favourite singers are gospel singer Karen Clark-Sheard, Shirley Murdock, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker and Aretha Franklin.