Queen Latifah

Her stage name Latifah, meaning "delicate" and "sensitive" in Arabic, was given her when she was eight by her cousin. He continues to tour and perform to this date. She stands 5'9". His last major hit was 1980's "Hold on to My Love". In April 2003 she had breast reduction surgery. King), taken from the Ruffin Brothers album I Am My Brother's Keeper Ruffin's other hits include "I've Passed This Way Before", "Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got", "Don't You Miss Me A Little Bit Baby", "I'll Say Forever My Love", "It's Wonderful To Be Loved By You" and "Tell Me What You Want". Other recent movies Latifah has appeared in are Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business and Taxi. He also released, with his brother David, a popular cover version of "Stand by Me" (by Ben E.

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. His 1966 hit "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" was a major hit and his most well-remembered song. 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. Jimmy Ruffin (born May 7, 1939 in Collinsville, Mississippi) is an African-American soul singer and older brother of David Ruffin, one of the lead singers for The Temptations. In 1998, she made an album entitled Order in the Court. 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.

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. She still wears the key to the bike around her neck. Her older brother Lance was killed in 1992 in an accident on a bike that Latifah had just bought him. From 1993 to 1998 Latifah starred on Living Single, a FOX sitcom; she also wrote and performed its theme music.

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. 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. She started her career beatboxing for rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah's first big success was singing the number "Home" from The Wiz in a school performance of the musical.

Owens' mother and father, a police officer, divorced when she was eight years old. 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.