home to Brooklyn that night and caught him stealing looks at her along the way. Her hard shell would melt when she met the man who would become her first husband at a photo shoot. “I don’t like being played, so I had to step up,” Faith recalls.
#FAITH EVANS AND BIGGIE SKIN#
Blige’s “Everyday It Rains.”Įvans developed a thick skin and tough shell, even carrying an unloaded. Her connection to Griffin eventually led her to Combs, and by 1993 she was writing songs for Usher’s first album and cowriting the lyrics for Mary J. For a time she collected welfare while living with her grandparents, but she ultimately found steady session work, earning $2,000 a week singing background on demo tapes for the likes of Al B. The relationship didn’t last, and Evans returned to the East Coast, a young, gifted and broke single mom. When Faith learned she was pregnant, Griffin insisted she keep the child, and they moved to Los Angeles.
#FAITH EVANS AND BIGGIE FULL#
But she remained focused and earned a full ride to Fordham University in New York-only to give up her education after falling in love with Kiyamma Griffin, a local musician. While still in her teens, she dealt with an STD, had multiple abortions, and became involved with a married man. I’m not that way I’m not trying to have bruises.” Yet Faith was drawn to guys with an edge, like “J.T.,” her first boyfriend, who was older, a drug dealer and abusive. “As a child I always shied away from conflict or when people were fighting,” she recollects in Keeping the Faith. She found her voice at Emmanuel Baptist Church Incorporated in Newark and kept on singing. Music is what took her to the hip-hop life, because it came easy to this complicated girl, born in Lakeland, Florida, to Helene Evans, a Black singer, and a music-loving man (who is rumored to be White, though Faith never met him and doesn’t know for sure), and raised in Newark, New Jersey. If there’s a familiar thread in Evans’s life, it’s her shyness and tendency to avoid confrontation, which is ironic, given her presence during some of the most explosive moments of hip-hop’s heyday. “Everybody’s not going to accept the real story, but it’s my story.” ‘One day, you’re going to have to tell it,'” she explains. King): “‘People don’t know the real story,’ he told me. But why tell her story now? Faith says Russaw encouraged her to write the book (penned with Aliya S. Blige, Missy Elliott and others will give the feeling of “been there, done that.” However, it’s refreshing to see what Faith saw during this music revolution through her often unheralded role as a forceful talent and leading lady in a sometimes tawdry soap opera. Caution: The singer covers ground that’s been widely reported in various hip-hop magazines, so the cameo appearances by rappers Lil’ Kim and Charli Baltimore, Bad Boy Records impresario Sean “Puffy” Combs, Mary J. And although she’s still in laid-back California mode, there’s nothing calm about Keep the Faith (Grand Central Publishing), hitting shelves this month. She’s gearing up for the book tour for her explosive new memoir, which will briefly take her away from her husband–manager, Todd Russaw, and the children (daughter Chyna, 15, and son Joshua, 10, round out the brood). Though Faith wears a full figure well on her 5-foot, 6-inch frame, she says she’s dieting. Placing her shades on the bar and her black Balenciaga bag aside, Faith, 35, makes conversation with the chef as he whips up her raw fish favorites, jalapeño yellowtail and spicy tuna roll, which she’ll wash down with sake, a glass of Sapporo and a ginger ale.
#FAITH EVANS AND BIGGIE MOVIE#
The movie comes out in 2009 and chronicles the life and 1997 death of his father, Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G.
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If he makes the cut, next year he may don a Catholic school uniform, not unlike the costume he wears playing his dad at a young age in the film Notorious. She has just dropped off her son Christopher, 11, at a local junior high school so he can take an entrance exam.
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Today the Grammy Award-winning singer, once known for furs and shiny catsuits, pairs a casual emerald-green sundress with a white capelet and gladiator sandals. Without lipstick, her signature pout isn’t evident, save for the beauty marks that stood out on the cover of her platinum-selling debut CD, Faith. Freckles emphasize her sun-kissed cheeks, and her soft, golden-brown curls have been air-dried, as if she just hopped out of a swimming pool-which, in fact, she has.
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The place is convenient to Evans’s Venice Beach home, and SoCal seems to agree with her. She leaves her black toy-filled Denali SUV, equipped with a car seat for 1½-year-old son Ryder, and smiles as she enters the trendy Marina del Rey restaurant. There may be other working mothers chilling in Naked Sushi at two in the afternoon, but none have lived the life of Faith Evans.