I just been trying to get my history together." The album title borrows from the same-titled album track. The feel is 'Faith has grown.' That's what I hope people get from it. While it took almost two years to finish Faitfully, Evans noted in a 2001 interview with MTV News that it reflected her music studies of the past five years, saying: "It took months and months of studying the songs, going back, putting in the elements. Producer duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were also asked to contribute to Faithfully but declined after hearing previously produced material which they found too good to come up with better material. While Combs and in-house producer Mario Winans would craft the majority of the album production, Evans also collaborated withīattlecat, Bink, Buckwild, Hozay Clowney, Kip Collins, Havoc, The Neptunes, Vada Nobles, Michaelangelo Saulsberry, and frequent contributor Chucky Thompson on Faithfully. After sending them to Combs, he urged them to come to Miami to start recording sessions for the album with him and his team, which Evans called "really enjoyable." Diddy" Combs being involved in several projects, including his second album Forever (1999), Evans and Russaw started working on new songs their own.
With her label Bad Boy Records nearing transition from distributor Arista Records to Universal Music and mentor Sean "P. Band, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and others, sitting around and playing them to learn about their techniques and performances. Before recording songs, the pair spent a year studying the work of classic R&B, pop, rock, and jazz artists such as Steely Dan, Michael Franks, Chicago, S.O.S. Faithfully spawned four total singles, including " You Gets No Love", " I Love You" and " Burnin' Up." Faithfully was Evans' last album to be recorded under the Bad Boy imprint before her departure in 2003.Įvans worked closely with her husband and manager Todd Russaw on her third album. It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary R&B Album and debuted and peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard 200, selling 101,000 copies in its first week, and went on to sell more than 834,000 copies, eventually reaching gold status in the United States. The album earned generally favorable reviews from most critics who called it her best effort yet, though others were critical with its length and the amount of ballads on Faithfully. The result, a sample-heavy album, which the label described as "old school flavored," features production by Mario Winans, Buckwild, Vada Nobles, Michael Angelo Saulsberry, The Neptunes, Battlecat, and others, with material ranging from ballads to dance tracks that built upon the contemporary R&B, funk music and hip-hop genres. Band, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughn during the production of Faithfully. A reflection of her musical studies, Evans was inspired by a variety of classic R&B, pop, rock, and jazz artists such as Chicago, S.O.S. It was released by Bad Boy Records on Novemin the United States. Faithfully is the third studio album by American singer Faith Evans.
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