Her first album released on the label, The First Lady (2005) became her highest-charting album at the time, reaching the top of the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, while the holiday album A Faithful Christmas, released the same year, would become her last release before the company was bought in 2007. In 2003, she ended her relationship with the company to sign with Capitol Records. On the label, she featured on records with several label mates such as 112 and Carl Thomas, and released three platinum-certified studio albums between 19: Faith (1995) and Keep the Faith (1998), and Faithfully (2001). She is most famously known for her marriage to Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Sure! and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to contract with Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment recording company in 1994.

After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Born in Lakeland, Florida, and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 for a career in the music business. Faith Renée Jordan ( née Evans born June 10, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress.