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choir and later moved on to roles in musicals in her high school years. After quitting college, she established herself as a songwriter and back up singer, penning tracks for Mary J. Blige and adding her voice to recordings by Color Me Badd and Pebbles. Faith Evans's work eventually attracted the interest of Sean Puff Daddy Combs, who made Faith Evans the first female signing to his Bad Boy label and produce her 1995 self-titled debut; the album reached #2 on the R&B charts and featured three popular singles, including the duet with her friend Blige, Love Don't Live Here Anymore. That same year she married fellow Bad Boy recording artist Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace (whom she had known for nine days) .After he was assassinated, Evans contributed to a tribute tune, "I'll Be Missing You," which won a Grammy in 1998. The next record of her own, Keeping the Faith, came out the same year and earned Evans another Grammy nomination for the tune "Love Like This." She also got a Grammy nod for her contributions to Whitney Houston's Heartbreak Hotel album, placing her squarely in the R&B mainstream.



In the early 2000s, Faith Evans founded her own production company, Pedigree MGI, with second husband/manager Todd Russaw and released a third album, Faithfully. The album earned Evans another two Grammy nominations, ultimately went platinum, and proved her durability. Evans rebounded in 2005 from drug possession charges with the album, The First Lady, her Capitol Records debut. With the help of the single "Again," the album reached the top ten of Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, and entered the Billboard 200 at number two. A Christmas album followed soon after, but no matter the season, Evans had already demonstrated that she is hot, hot hot.