Faith Evans: Faith
Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Faith Evans was already a successful songwriter before mini-mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs signed her as a solo act to his Bad Boy label. This is probably why Faith is such a seamlessly constructed and thematically cohesive album debut.
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