Faith Ren�e Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and author. Born in Lakeland, Florida and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Evans moved to Los Angeles in 1993 for a career in the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Sure, and Christopher Williams (Christopher Williams (singer)), she became the first female artist to be signed to Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs (Sean Combs) Bad Boy Entertainment label in 1994, on which she released three platinum-certified studio albums between the years of 1995 and 2001. In 2003, she left the label to sign with Capitol Records.

Next to her recording career, Evans is widely known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace (The Notorious B.I.G.), whom she married on August 4, 1994, three weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photoshoot. The turbulent marriage led to Evans involvement in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop feud (East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry), dominating the rap scene (rap music) at the time, and ended with Wallaces murder in a yet-unsolved drive-by shooting (Notorious_B.I.G.#Murder_case) in Los Angeles, California in March 1997. A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff Daddy and 112 (112 (band)), entitled "Ill Be Missing You," became Evans biggest-selling hit to date and won her a Grammy Award in 1998.

Also an avocational actress and writer, Evans made her big screen debut in the 2000 musical drama Turn It Up (Turn It Up (film)) by Robert Adetuyi. Her self-written autobiography Keep the Faith: A Memoir was released by Grand Central Publishing in 2008 and won a 2009 African American Literary Award for the Best Biography/Memoir category.