Queen Latifah

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell has just released its spectacular lineup for the highly anticipated 2024 edition. The renowned eight-day event, scheduled to take place from April 25 to 28 and May 2 to 5, promises an unforgettable celebration of music, culture, and diversity that draws nearly half a million fans from around the world to the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans each year.

Appearing on the ‘Today’ show this morning because of their new film ‘Joyful Noise,’ Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah took the descriptor “cross-genre” just one step further. When host Ann Curry pointed out that hip-hop and country had an intersection in the two artists, Parton innocently said, “We never thought about that. We just thought it’d be rap stuff,” and then she jumped right into a rap wit