
Queen Latifah makes her Essence Festival debut at the 2018 event, joining a lineup featuring*Janet Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Miguel and The Roots, among others, when the festival returns to the Superdome*July 5-8
With extensive acting and producing credits from the last three decades, Queen Latifah's landmark hip-hop career was followed by two albums of jazz standards and multiple award nominations for performances in
Chicago and HBO's
Life Support and
Bessie, in which she starred as*blues singer Bessie Smith. She currently stars on the Fox drama
Star.
[content-1] Essence also revealed the nightly lineups for the five stages at the Superdome ? Erykah Badu and Jill Scott, The Roots and Snoop Dogg perform Friday, July 6, Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah perform Saturday, July 7, and Janet*Jackson headlines Sunday, July 8.
Single-night tickets start at $80 and are
available online.