You have a pair of new albums in production, one of which features duets with your late husband Biggie**. Arguably, Faith’s most recognizable - and maybe, most misunderstood - single is “Soon As I Get Home,” the subject my latest Oral Hit-story. This year, the album’s celebrating its 20th anniversary*, and you can catch Faith singing its greatest hits and those from her other albums on tour this year. It’s a beautiful, highly soulful album on which it’s clear how great of a guy he was, despite his fallacies (which all of us have). Certainly, she’s definitely paid tribute to him in the past - most notably, on her Grammy-winning tune, “ I’ll Be Missing You”- but maybe the greatest single tribute to him, when he was alive and they were first in love, is Faith. Too many times the events surrounding his death have been used to define Evans’ career. While we could recap the events surrounding Evans’ separation from her late husband and his March ’97 murder, we’re going to leave that to your Google-searching skills. That would be her then-husband Biggie, whom she married not long after signing to Bad Boy. Spend a little time with the songs, and you’ll realize she’s singing many of them to somebody. Maybe the best place to capture Evans’ genius is on her debut. Evans’ effortless mezzo soprano makes Hozier sound like a hoser: Instead of singing about taking you to church, her entire catalog actually puts you inside one she’s the French inhale of the R&B world. She is truly one of her generation’s most talented songwriters, with a tremendous ear for a hook and unique vocal timbre, unmatched by most of her peers (Mariah Carey and the late Whitney Houston included). If you’re unfamiliar with Evans’ music, it will make for a happy discovery. Founded the previous year by Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, the powerhouse label would go on to release some of the most influential hip-hop and R&B records in music history, including Evans’ 1995 debut, Faith and 1994’s Ready to Die, from her rapper husband, Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. ![]() Yes, faithful reader, it’s whoopee-making time, or as we like to call it, “Tuesdays.” Our soundtrack? One endless loop of Faith Evans today and forever, she’s your DJ of Doin’ It, Queen of Gettin’ Obscene, First Lady of Fu…well, you get the picture.īack in 1994, around the time when hip-hop artists like Warren G ruled the airwaves, Evans was signing on as the first female solo artist on Bad Boy Records. ![]() Red rose petals form a path leading into your bedroom, and when you enter, _ is there in bed waiting for you. ![]() You open the front door to find an ocean of lit candles, shadows dancing on the walls. You fiddle around in your pocket for your keys and finally find the right one.
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