By anushree garg | February 21, 2014 0 Comments

Net Worth: $185 million

Profession: Author, Record Producer, Actress and Song Writer

Introduction

Faith Evans was born on 10^th June 1973. Her complete name is Faith Renee Evans. Florida is the birth place of Evans. After her birth her parents shifted in New Jersey. She is a multitalented woman. She is not just and American song writer, author, actress, and record producer. She is a very creative woman. In year 1993 she shifted to Los Angeles for her music career. She has started her career in year 1993. Previously she used to work for Christopher Williams and AI B. Sure. She was the first female artist who got collaborated with Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs Bad Boy Entertainment Company. After her collaboration she released three very popular albums. The albums which she released were platinum certified and the names of the albums were Faith, Keep the Faith and Faithfully. In year 2003 she got collaborated with Capitol Records. In year 2005 her album named The First lady was released. The album was highly appreciated and she earned a lot of money through this album. She released one more album in year 2007 under the same label. The name of the album was a faithful Christmas. After the release of this album she created her own and independent label named Prolific/E1 Music. In year 2010 she released an album under her independent label. The name of the album was “something about faith”. she is very focused towards her work.

 

Personal Life

On a photo shot of Bad Boy Evans met Christopher. Christopher was a rapper of New York City. The complete name of Christopher is Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G” Wallace. They fell in love with each other. They got married on 4^th August 1994. Unfortunately her husband was murdered in Los Angeles. He was murdered on 9^th March 1997. And so she is also known as the widow of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G” Wallace. After their marriage the couple was graced with a child. Even after their marriage Wallace was said to have many affairs. After the death of Wallace, Evans started dating Russaw. During their affair Evan got pregnant and their child was born on 8^th June 1998. They named their son as Joshua. Evan and Russaw got married on 22^nd March 2007. After their marriage Evans gave birth to one more child who was named as Ryder Evan Russaw.

 

Acting

From her childhood Evans had some interest in acting as well. She used to appear in stage plays and many other things which are related to drama. She started her career with some significant roles in movies. She worked in movies like Turn It Up. It was a nice movie and Robert Adetuyi directed it. Other actor like Pras Michel, Jason Statham, and Ja Rule were the part of this movie. She played a very significant role in the romantic comedy of MTV named The Fighting Temptations. She was a night club singer and a single mother in this film. The film was directed in Columbus and Cuba.

 

Awards and achievements

She has won many awards for her incredible work. In year 2002 she was nominated for best female R&B artist in BET Awards. She was nominated for many tags in Grammy awards. In year 2003 she was nominated for best R&B album. In was nominated for many other tags like Best R&B album, Best R&B Female Vocal performance, Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Performance by Duo or Group in Grammy Awards. She won two Lady Soul Awards for Best Female R&B Album (Faith) and Best R&B Artist (You Used to Love me).she even won an MTV award for best R&B video for “I’ll be missing you”. She also won the Soul Train Award for the same video. She also won an American Literary Award for best Biography.

 

Tours

She has performed in many tours. In year 1999 she performed in the tour named keep the Faith Tour. Then in year 2005 she went on The First Lady Tour. She has performed in two more tours which were named as something about the Faith Tour and An Evening with the Faith. Her tours are highly popular. She receives a lot of appreciation from each of her tour. She has even earned a lot of money through these tours.

 

Richness

Faith Evans has a successful career. She earned all her money with the success of her career. The estimated worth of Faith Evans is said to be $185 million. She leads a quite luxurious and lavish lifestyle. Her career including singing, acting, and writing has given her a great success. She has written a book named “Keeping the Faith”. The book is said to be the best seller and hence it made good money in the market. Furthermore she is a philanthropist. She has raised many funds for education of students. She is said to be the highest paid singer in the world. She owns many restaurants in different places. She has a Fat Evan Burger Chain in Washington. She has even launched her own brand of vodka named as Pure Wonder-evans. She has also featured a perfume which has got extremely popular. Her perfume is said to be the top selling perfume in the market.