Faith Evans

She can be featured on the hit single with rapper Twista titled "Hope" on the Coach Carter soundtrack.
. Now signed to Capitol Records after her tenure with Bad Boy ended in 2003, she will release her fourth album, The First Lady this spring. They appeared onstage together at an exclusive block party in New York City that month, hosted by Dave Chappelle. They later were granted misdemeanors and paid for their crime. In September 2004, it was announced that The Fugees have settled their differences and are currently working on a new album. In 2004, Evans and her husband got into trouble when the couple was arrested for having marijuana in their car. Though the Fugees remain tight-lipped about the exact reasons, most fans believe that a serious personality conflict between Hill and Jean contributed to their breakup following The Score.

The video was a remix of the song, which featured extra raps from Missy Elliott, in addition to Loon, and garnered substantial MTV2 play throughout the summer of 2002. After each member found success in other ventures, the Fugees failed to reform. "Burnin' Up", the album's third single, featured Bad Boy rapper Loon and was successful on urban radio, despite failing to make the pop charts. After 1997, the Fugees all began solo projects: Hill started work on her critically acclaimed The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Jean began producing for a number of artists (including Destiny's Child and Carlos Santana) and recorded his debut album The Carnival, and Michel, with Mya and Ol' Dirty Bastard, recorded the single "Ghetto Superstar" for the soundtrack to the Warren Beatty/Halle Berry film Bulworth. The next single, a tender ballad called "I Love You", was released in early 2002 and achieved moderate pop success--a first for a Faith Evans single. The Fugees won two 1997 Grammy Awards: The Score won for Best Rap Album, and "Killing Me Softly With His Song" won for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. In late 2001, Evans released her third album, which spawned the successful urban single "You Gets No Love". The album also included a re-interpretation of The Delfonics' "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)" in their hit single "Ready or Not".

The same year, she was featured on Carl Thomas' single, "Can't Believe". The Fugees were known for their unusual choice of covers and sampling sources on both albums; The Score, for example, included covers of "No Woman No Cry" (Bob Marley & the Wailers) and "Killing Me Softly (With His Song)" (Roberta Flack), which was their first and only #1 pop hit. members Ja Rule, Vita, and Cadillac Tah. Despite the relative failure of their first album, The Score became one of the biggest hits of 1996 and was one of the first hip hop albums to incorporate reggae in a major way. In early 2001, Evans released "Good Life", a single from the Fast And The Furious soundtrack, which featured rap from Murder Inc. The trio released their first LP, Blunted on Reality, after a long period of performing, but the album failed to live up the expectations of fans who attended their concerts. The album's third single, "Never Gonna Let You Go", was less successful. Hill and Jean each went on to successful solo recording careers, while Michel focused mainly on soundtrack recordings and film acting.

Diddy, both of which failed to catch on with mainstream radio despite performing substantially at urban radio. Deriving their name from the term "refugee", the group is noted for the integration of soul and reggae into their work, and recorded two albums--one of which, The Score, was a multi-platinum and Grammy-winning success--before going their separate ways after 1997. It produced the singles "Love Like This" and "All Night Long", featuring P. Both Jean and Michel are of Haitian heritage; Hill is an African American native of South Orange, New Jersey. Evans' sophomore album, Keep The Faith, was released in 1999. The members of the group are leader/rapper/producer Wyclef Jean, rapper/singer Lauryn Hill, and rapper Pras Michel. Although Evans had had previous urban successes, this song was the first that mainstream America heard of her. The Fugees are an American music group, popular during the mid-1990s, whose repertoire includes primarily hip hop, with elements of soul, and Carribean music (particularly reggae).

Diddy in recording "I'll Be Missing You", a touching song which sampled The Police's "Every Breath You Take" and acted as a fitting tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G. Fugees Lyrics (http://www.lyricscafe.com/f/fugees.htm). After her husband's murder in early 1997, Evans joined 112 and P. Fugees Fansite (http://user.aol.com/Snicka/fugee2.htm). The album also contained a duet with Blige on a cover of Rose Royce's disco hit, "Love Don't Live Here Anymore". 1996: "Ready or Not". Its singles, "Soon As I Get Home", "You Used To Love Me", "Come Over", and "Ain't Nobody" became smashes at urban radio that year and into 1996. 1996: "Killing Me Softly (With His Song)" (US #1).

With Diddy's full concentration on Evans, the First Lady of Bad Boy's debut album, Faith Evans was released in early 1995. 1995: "Fu-Gee-La" (US #29). Diddy started to spend more time working on Faith's upcoming album than work with Blige at the time who was visibly upset over what she saw as a disrespect on Diddy's part, she parted from Diddy in 1995 but would be present on Faith's first album writing several singles for her as Faith had done on Blige's 1994 album, My Life. 1994: "Vocab". (who was one of Diddy's closet friends) slowly became closer, P. 1994: "Nappy Heads" (US #49). As Evans and B.I.G. 1996: The Score.

Blige and Aaliyah, Evans sang the chorus on the popular remix of B.I.G.'s single "One More Chance". 1994: Blunted on Reality. Along with other premier female soul singers at the time, Mary J. Diddy's successful Bad Boy record label. Faith Evans was considered an R&B superstar for much of the early and mid '90s, as part of P.

She is most often remembered for being the widow of the late rapper, Notorious B.I.G. Faith Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an R&B singer from Newark, New Jersey, who achieved fame in the early 1990s.