Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens - better known to the public as Queen Latifah - is an American actor, rapper and a singer. Her career as a musician as well as a film and television artist has won an impressive two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Image Awards. She also won a Grammy Award along with six additional Grammy nominations. Queen Latifah is the daughter of Newark New Jersey native. Her parents are Lancelot Sr. who was a policeman, as well as Rita teacher at Irvington High School. Latifahs parents split up at the age of Latifah was 10 years old. aged, was 10 years old. Latifah went to Catholic school in Newark New Jersey and was raised through her family's Baptist Church. Latifah was her stage name at the time she reached the age of eight. It means very sensitive in Arabic. Latifah is 5-foot-10" tall forward on her high school team was always a tall girl. She performed the song "Home" from The Wiz in the course of a show in her high school. Latifah began her career as a beatboxer with her band, the Ladies Fresh rap band. Latifah is among the first participants of Flavor Unit, which was in the beginning a group composed of MCs led by DJ Mark the45 King. Mark James (aka DJ Mark the45King) recorded a sample of Queen Latifah her rap Princess of the Posse. The song was sent to host Yo! MTV Raps Freddy. Dante Ross of Tommy Boy Music was signed by Latifah after hearing the song. Her first single, Wrath of My Madness, in 1988.





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