Pantera

After Dimebag's death, a Pantera reunion has become impossible but comments made in public by Phil Anselmo suggest that he had planned on reuniting the band. Her stage name Latifah, meaning "delicate" and "sensitive" in Arabic, was given her when she was eight by her cousin. An audience member, a club employee, and a member of the bands' security entourage were killed before Gale was shot dead by police officer James Niggemeyer (for more on the shooting, see Dimebag Darrell). She stands 5'9". In 2004 Gale shot and killed Dimebag Darrell at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio as they took the stage. In April 2003 she had breast reduction surgery. It is believed that negative comments made by Anselmo in the press about Dimebag inspired Nathan Gale to take his Beretta pistol to a Damageplan performance. Other recent movies Latifah has appeared in are Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business and Taxi.

The break-up of the band was not amicable and invariably a war between Superjoint and Damageplan was waged via the heavy metal and musical press. In 2003, she co-starred with Steve Martin in the marginally well received comedy Bringing Down the House, as a woman who is "mismatched" through a legal advice chat room with Martin's character. After this, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell formed a band of their own called New Found Power which was later renamed Damageplan. In 2003, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Matron "Mama" Morton in the movie musical Chicago. It was thought he would return to Pantera, but didn't and instead formed Superjoint Ritual, who have released two albums. In 1998, she made an album entitled Order in the Court. Pantera irretrievably dissolved after Anselmo left the band to pursue other work with such bands as Down. In 1996 she was arrested in possession of a small amount of marijuana and a gun; she was fined and sentenced to two years probation.

In this release, Pantera took an even more extreme direction. Latifah released an album dedicated to him, Black Reign, which was a hit partly because of a hit single, U.N.I.T.Y. In 1995, she was the victim of a carjacking, in which a friend of hers was shot. Pantera's breakthrough album was 1992's Vulgar Display of Power, which saw the replacement of falsetto vocals with a more shouted delivery and a heavier guitar sound. The extent to which this album grew in popularity can be assessed by the instant success of the 1994 follow-up, Far Beyond Driven which debuted at number one in both American and Australian album charts, the first metal album ever to achieve this, despite the failing fortunes of metal in America at that time. She still wears the key to the bike around her neck. At this point, Pantera's music was still heavily influenced by "classic heavy metal" — with Rob Halford-style vocals and the extravagant riffs and solos of guitarist Dimebag Darrell, though the album also showcased a more extreme style. Her older brother Lance was killed in 1992 in an accident on a bike that Latifah had just bought him. The first really successful record Pantera recorded was 1990's Cowboys From Hell. From 1993 to 1998 Latifah starred on Living Single, a FOX sitcom; she also wrote and performed its theme music.

Pantera then located Phil Anselmo and produced "Power Metal", a tape that had Phil singing some songs that were originally sung by Glaze, as well as a few originals. This debut was critically acclaimed as one of the best hip hop albums of all time and was followed by Nature of a Sista, another well-reviewed album. When Terry balked at the contract he was kicked out of the band. Local DJ Mark the 45 King heard a demo version of Latifah's single "Princess of the Posse" in 1988, gave the demo to Fab Five Freddy, who was then host of Yo! MTV Raps, and Fab 5 Freddy helped Latifah get signed to Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah's first album, All Hail the Queen (1989), when she was 18. Terry Glaze was included in talks to sign with a label that was fronted by Gene Simmons of KISS. She started her career beatboxing for rap group Ladies Fresh. Pantera released three forgotten albums (Metal Magic, Projects In The Jungle and I Am The Night) before ditching singer Terry Glaze in favor of Phil Anselmo with 1987's Power Metal. Latifah's first big success was singing the number "Home" from The Wiz in a school performance of the musical.

They were modern (or so-called "groove") metal. Owens' mother and father, a police officer, divorced when she was eight years old. Formed in 1983, Pantera were one of the most influential Heavy Metal bands of the 1990s. Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970, in Newark, New Jersey), better known as Queen Latifah, is an American Grammy Award-winning rap artist and actress. Pantera was a popular heavy metal band from Dallas,Texas, USA. Pantera: 3 - Vulgar Videos from Hell (1997) (DVD re-release).

3: Watch it Go. The Vulgar Video. Cowboys from Hell - The Videos. Reinventing Hell: The Best Of Pantera [Compilation] - (2003).

Official Live: 101 Proof [Live] - (1997). Reinventing The Steel - (2000). The Great Southern Trendkill - (1996). Far Beyond Driven - (1994).

Vulgar Display Of Power - (1992). Cowboys from Hell - (1990). Power Metal - (1988). I Am The Night - (1985).

Projects In The Jungle - (1984). Metal Magic - (1983). Rex Brown (aka, Rexx Rocker) - Bass. Vinnie Paul (Vincent Abott) - Drums.

Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abott aka, Diamond Darrell) - Guitars. Phil Anselmo - Vocals.