Faith Evans

Faith Evans, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional actress and author. She became the first female artist to be contracted with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. She has released four regular studio albums, one holiday album, and thirty-four singles. N

In 1995, Evans contributed backing vocals and writing skills to Mary J. Blige's My Life and Usher's self-titled debut album. Her debut album, Faith, was released in August 1995 and featured the singles "You Used to Love Me" and "Soon as I Get Home". The album was certified platinum with 1.5 million copies sold.

After The Notorious B.I.G.'s murder in March 1997, Combs helped Evans produce her tribute song named "I'll Be Missing You", based on the melody of The Police's 1983 single "Every Breath You Take". The song, which featured Combs, Evans, and all-male group 112, became a worldwide number-one success and debuted on top of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1997, scoring that for eleven weeks. The next year, Evans was featured on "Heartbreak Hotel", a collaboration with singers Whitney Houston and Kelly Price.

Evans' second album, Keep the Faith, was released in October 1998 and went platinum and produced the singles "Love Like This" and "All Night Long". Evans' third album was Faithfully and was released in 2001. The album was certified platinum and featured the single "I Love You".

The First Lady was her fourth album and was released in April 2005, It climbed at number two on the Billboard 200 and #1 of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, becoming Evans' best-charting album to date. It was certified gold by the RIAA. At the end of the year, Evans released A Faithful Christmas, a holiday album of traditional Christmas songs and original tracks.

In October 2010, Evans released her fifth studio album, Something About Faith ,which debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard 200, number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number one on the Independent Albums chart. The album included the single "Gone Already" which spent over thirty-three weeks on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.