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The Kennedys did their best to shelter Evans from some of the harsher realities of life in 1970s Newark, which was suffering economically in wake of the 1967 riots. 'Unfortunately,' Evans wrote, 'some of the characters in and out of the house were just as suspicious as the people my grandparents were trying to protect me from on the street.'Д®vans became obsessed with her mom's record collection on visits to Florida, rifling through albums by Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire and Anita Ward. She did the same at her Aunt Hope's house in Linden, Jersey, a few miles away from the Kennedys' home. Between her aunt and her mom, she was exposed to everything from Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell to 1980s house acts like Gwen Guthrie, CeCe Rogers and Colonel Abrahams. When Evans was 14, she sang in a touring gospel group, The Spiritual Uplifters, which performed in New York, Philadelphia and Connecticut. Its organizer, Sister Wilson, had some music-industry contacts and landed Evans a minor role in a Boogie Down Productions video for the 1989 single 'You Must Learn,' in which she played a student.

It was her first brush with the world of hip hop.

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#FAITH EVANS YOU USED TO HULKSHARE FULL#ДЇirst Lady of Bad Boy RecordsДЄfter graduating from high school in 1991, Evans attended Fordham University in New York City on a full scholarship to study marketing but dropped out after a year. Soon after, she had her daughter, Chyna, with the music producer Kiyamma Griffin. The young family moved to LA for a while, but the relationship didn't work out, and Evans returned to Newark as a single mom, moving back in with Mae and Bob Kennedy. She found regular session work, earning $2,000 per week singing background vocals on demo tapes for R&B artists including Al B Sure and Christopher Williams. This got her noticed by a young impresario, Sean 'Puffy' Combs, who had set up a label, Bad Boy Records, in 1993. Through Combs, Evans co-wrote lyrics for Mary J. Blige, and songs for Usher's self-titled debut album, released in 1994. That year, she became the first female artist to get signed by Bad Boy Records. In the summer of 1994, Evans met another up-and-coming artist, Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G, at a photo shoot for Bad Boy - and within a mere eight days of knowing each other, they were married. The ceremony was on August 4th in Rockland County, upstate New York the bride wore a sleeveless white dress, the groom wore jeans and Timberlands. #FAITH EVANS YOU USED TO HULKSHARE FULL#.

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