Latifah was asked by Maya Angelou, who was unable to attend, to recite a poem written by Angelou at the memorial service for Michael Jackson in July 2009.ДЈ0. She also works out with a trainer for kickboxing.Дў9. She was placed on three yearsвЂ™ probation after being convicted.Дў8. In 2002, she was arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles County. In 1996, she was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of a loaded handgun.Дў7. In 1995, Latifah was the victim of a carjacking, which also resulted in the shooting of her boyfriend, Sean Moon.Дў6. In her 1999 autobiography, Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman, Latifah discussed how her brotherвЂ™s death had led to a bout of depression and drug abuse, from which she later recovered.Дў5. A 2006 interview revealed that Latifah still wears the key to the motorcycle around her neck, visible throughout her performance in her sitcom Living Single.Дў4. LatifahвЂ™s work in music, film and television has earned her a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, an Academy Award nomination and sales of over two million records.Дў3. Queen Latifah received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.Дў0. She has long been considered one of hip-hopвЂ™s pioneer feminists.ДЎ9. Latifah received critical acclaim for her portrayal of blues singer Bessie Smith in the HBO film Bessie (2015), which she co-produced, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.ДЎ8. She created the daytime talk show The Queen Latifah Show, which ran from late 2013 to early 2015 on CBS.ДЎ7. In 20, she released two more studio albums вЂ“ TravвЂ™linвЂ™ Light and Persona.ДЎ6. Latifah released her fifth album The Dana Owens Album in 2004, and has since appeared in a number of films, such as Bringing Down the House (2003), Taxi (2004), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2005), Beauty Shop (2005), Last Holiday (2006), Hairspray (2007) and Joyful Noise (2012). Latifah gained mainstream success and acclaim with her performance in the film Chicago (2002), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.ДЎ5. She then starred in the lead role of Set It Off (1996) and released her fourth album, Order in the Court, in 1998, with Motown Records.ДЎ4. Her second album, Nature of a Sista (1991), was her final album with Tommy Boy Records.ДЎ3. The song got the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who signed Latifah and in 1988 issued her first single, вЂњWrath of My MadnessвЂќ.ДЎ0. He gave the recording to Fab 5 Freddy, the host of Yo! MTV Raps. She started beat boxing for the hip-hop group Ladies Fresh and was an original member of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ King Gemini, who made a demo recording of Queen LatifahвЂ™s rap Princess of the Posse.Д©. She performed the number вЂњHomeвЂќ from the musical The Wiz in a grammar school play.ДЁ. Always tall, the 5-foot-10-inch (1.78 m) Latifah was a power forward on her high school basketball team.Д§. Her stage name, Latifah (Щ„Ш·ЩЉЩЃШ© laЕЈД«fa), meaning вЂњdelicateвЂќ and вЂњvery kindвЂќ in Arabic, she found in an Arabic book of names when she was eight.Д¦. Latifah was raised in the Baptist faith and attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey.ДҐ. Her parents divorced when Latifah was ten.Д¤.

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