Born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970, Queen Latifah began her career as a rapper who made her impact rapping about the Black American experience, specifically bringing awareness to issues ...

I had somehow managed to earn her confidence enough that I was being introduced to Dana Elaine Owens, a woman that may look, talk and act like Queen Latifah, but who in many ways was the polar ...

But the former Dana Elaine Owens of Northern New Jersey stands taller than the competition, as much for her regal bearing as for the -Oscar nomination for her opportunistic prison matron Mama ...

No, she’s not, she’s simply stating the way things are. After all, this is Queen Latifah, a.k.a. Dana Elaine Owens from Newark, N.J., who signed with Tommy Boy Records at age 17; released ...

55 years ago today, Dana Elaine Owens was born — though you more likely know her under the moniker she’s used to become a ...

It simultaneously announced a new era in the genre and that a then-19-year-old named Dana Elaine Owens would be ushering it in. The release contained the single “Ladies First,” a feminist ...

Queen Latifah‘s mom Rita Owens didn’t know what to think of her famous daughter’s stage name. Latifah, who was born Dana Elaine Owens, sits down with Cynthia McFadden for the journalist’s ...

Born Dana Elaine Owens in New Jersey in 1970, Queen Latifah’s groundbreaking emergence into the rap music scene in the late 1980s paved the way for her to be cast on Living Single, which would ...

The popular screen star, 48 - real name Dana Elaine Owens - confirmed the news in a poignant statement to People magazine on Thursday morning. She said: "It is with a heavy heart that I share the ...

The award-winning rapper, singer and actress has been taking her career to new heights for more than three decades Born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970, Queen Latifah began her career as a ...