Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens better known as Queen Latifah is an American performer and actress. Her performance as a singer, music as well as a film and television artist has earned her the distinction of two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Image Awards. She also was awarded a Grammy Award and six other Grammy nominations. Queen Latifah, the daughter of an Newark New Jersey schoolteacher and an Newark New Jersey police officer Lancelot Owens Senior was raised and born within Newark New Jersey. Her parents divorced around the age of ten. Latifah grew up in the Baptist religion and went to Catholic school in Newark New Jersey. In her early twenties, her cousin gave her the stage name Latifah that means gentle and loving in Arabic. Always tall, at 5'10, Latifah was a forward on her high school basketball team. At her school's game, Latifah performed "Home" from The Wiz. Latifah first began to beatbox for the Ladies Fresh. Latifah joined the Flavor Unit's first group, made up of a variety of MCs, as well as DJ Mark 45 King. Mark James aka DJ Mark the 45 King made an unreleased version of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. The recording was given to host Yo! MTV Raps is Freddy. Dante Ross, an employee of Tommy Boy Music who heard the song and made a deal with Latifah in 1988 to release her debut single Wrath of My Madness.





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