Soon after, Evans met Christopher Wallace they were married just eight days later. That year, Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs signed her to Bad Boy Records-as its first female signee-and she co-wrote many of the label’s early hits. Sure!, co-writing six songs on Usher’s stellar 1994 debut. But music’s pull was too strong: She dropped out within a year and moved to Los Angeles, where she started writing songs and singing backup for Mary J. As a teen, she sang in a gospel group and was a straight-A student who won a scholarship to Fordham University. Born in Lakeland, FL, in 1973 and raised in New Jersey, Evans was a preternaturally talented singer/songwriter blessed with a buttery soprano and natural elegance. Faith Evans became the glamorous first lady of pop-infused R&B before she was 23 years old, thanks to a meteoric rise in the charts-and her brief, troubled marriage to The Notorious B.I.G.
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