How much is Faith Evans worth?
| Net Worth: | $3 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Singer |
| Date of Birth: | June 10, 1973 (age 49) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
About Faith Evans
Faith Evans, whose full name is Faith Renee Jordan, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and record producer. The Florida-native artist relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1990s to pursue a singing career. During her first years in the music business, she worked as a back-up vocalist for the likes of Al B. Sure! and Christopher Williams, before eventually she focused her attention on her solo career and signed a recording deal with Puff Dady’s label Bad Boy Entertainment.
Throughout her illustrious career, she has sold over 12 million records worldwide. Her discography includes seven platinum-certified albums, and one collaborative album with The Notorious B.I.G. Her first album, from 1995 titled Faith, became the highest-charting album at that time and further boosted her international popularity. Apart from her successful music career, Evans is also known for being the who of one of the most eminent rappers of all time — The Notorious B.I.G.
Shortly after he passed away, the actress and singer created the tribute single “I’ll Be Missing You”, which not only became a mega-hit but also earned the singer her first Grammy Award.
Faith became famous mainly because of her singing and acting abilities. She was born on June 10, 1973, in Lakeland, Florida. Her father was a musician and her mother, and African American was a professional singer. She was raised in a Christian home by foster parents and began singing when she was two years old.
While singing at various churches, Evans impressed the congregation of the Emanuel Baptist Church and was offered to join them.
At the time she was attending the University High School in Newark, encouraged by her biological mother, she joined jazz bands and entered contests, pageants, and festivals where her voice could be praised and noticed. In 1993, she relocated to Los Angeles to further pursue her music career. At first, she worked as a backup vocalist to Al B. Sure! and Christopher Williams and continued to improve her singing skills.
Soon, she caught the attention of Puff Daddy (real name Sean Combs) who was so impressed with her that he agreed to sign her to his label. By joining Bad Boy Entertainment, in 1994, she also became the first female artist to do that. Also that year, prior to starting work on her debut studio album, Faith Evans helped rising stars Mary J. Blige and Usher for the creation of their debut albums as both a songwriter and backing vocalist.
The artist began to become rich after the release of her debut studio album Faith. Around the same time when she signed with the label, she married label mate and rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (real name Christopher Wallace). Her debut album titled Faith was released on August 29, 1995, and received critical acclaim upon its release.
From her first studio project, she was able to earn enough money to be able to live and becoming a professional artist. Mainly from sales, promotions, and guest appearances on both talk shows and realities. The album itself contains gold-certified hits “Soon As I Get Home”, “You Used to Love Me” and in just a few months time, with over 1.5 million copies sold, it received a platinum certification by the RIAA.
In May 1997, two months after the murder of Biggie, Faith produced her tribute song “I’ll Be Missing You”.
The song, which includes her record producer Puff Daddy, as well as the all-male group 112, boosted the singer’s popularity and became a worldwide number-one hit. It debuted and peaked at number one in more than 20 different countries such as Austria, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. In addition to this, the tribute track also earned Faith Evans’ first Grammy Award in the category “Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group”.
The singer’s career hit its peak in the late 1990s. Shortly after she won her first Grammy, Evans collaborated with Kelly Price and Whitney Houston on the song “Heartbreak Hotel”, which received two Grammy nominations. Following her three Grammy nominations, Evans released her long-anticipated second studio album — Keep the Faith.
The sophomore album was just as successful as her first and it earned generally positive reviews by many music critics. Thanks in parts to hit singles such as “All Night Long” and “Love Like This”, the album had commercial success and was certified platinum for selling over 1,000,000 copies in the United States.
To further promote her second album, Faith embarked on her first national tour titled Keep the Faith Tour.
Over the past 20 years, to promote her chart-topping studio albums, Faith Evans embarked on six national tours.
As of now, her most prosperous tour remains The First Lady Tour from 2005, thanks to which she earned an estimated $350-500,000. Simultaneously with releasing new music, since the year of 2000, the skilled artist also focused on her acting skills and has had a few stunts in the film industry.
That same year, she made her screen debut in the musical drama Turn It Up. Since then, she has taken part in several films, television series, and reality shows such as The Fighting Temptations, Girls Trip, R&B Divas, Real Husbands of Hollywood, and RuPaul’s Drag Race. As of the mid-2010s, she’s been one of the familiar faces that have stared in the successful reality Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta as both guest and main cast.
Evans’ Total Net Worth
Faith Evans has earned estimated total career income of $7 million dollars. As Evans has lived between the states of New Jersey, California and New York, she will have had to pay around 43% in taxes on her career income. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $3.99 million dollars, having paid $3.01 million dollars in taxes.
Faith Evans has been married three times and divorced three times. She was married to The Notorious B.I.G. from 1994 until his death in 1997. She then married record producer Todd Russaw in 1998 and they divorced in 2011, and Stevie J between the years of 2018 and 2021. Faith has four children in total and it seems that she has overall, neither gained nor lost from her family matters.
In her personal life she has likely spent $1 million dollars of her career earnings but also earned $500,000 from her investments. She will have also had to pay around $650,000 in business related costs. Therefore, it is estimated that Faith Evans has a net worth of a rounded $3 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Besides gaining a lot of fame as the widow of The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans is one of the most popular R&B and soul singers from the 1990s that made a name for herself with her incredible singing abilities. During her two-decades-long career, she released multiple studio albums and songs that topped international charts and earned gold and platinum certifications.
In addition to singing, she is also a familiar face that can be seen in many television productions. In 2008, the talented writer released her autobiography which, just like her music, quickly became a best-seller and won several awards. Even now, she continues to produce new music with her most latest album being the collaborative album with The Notorious B.I.G. titled The King and I.
