Queen Latifah is set to host the 47th Annual Grammy Awards on February 13th at Los Angeles' Staples Center. The event will be broadcast live on CBS.

One of the first successful female hip-hop artists, Latifah made her name with her 1989 All Hail the Queen, which called for respect for women within the hip-hop and African-American communities and set the stage for blockbuster acts like TLC.

In 1991, she crossed over to film with a role in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, and went on to garner Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for the role of Mama in the movie adaptation of Chicago.

Last year, at age thirty-four, the New Jersey native underwent yet another transformation: from rapper-turned-actress to rapper-turned-actress-turned-jazz singer. Her collection of standards, The Dana Owens Album (after her real name), included collaborations with Al Green and Herbie Hancock.

"Actually, I sang all my life," Latifah told Rolling Stone at the time. "And between the movies Living Out Loud and Chicago, I felt like the timing was good."

This year, Latifah stars in Wayne Wang's Last Holiday, as a terminally ill woman who decides to take a vacation in Europe; the comedy Beauty Shop, with Alfre Woodard, Mena Suvari and Kevin Bacon; and as Auntie Em in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, alongside R&B star Ashanti's Dorothy.