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Queen Latifah 's new album Trav'lin' Light will be released by famed jazz label Verve Records in conjunction with Flavor Unit Entertainment. Produced by three-time Grammy® winner Tommy LiPuma and by Geffen Records chairman Ron Fair, the album is the long-awaited follow-up to Latifah's critically-acclaimed and Grammy® nominated release The Dana Owens Album (2004).

Trav'lin' Light is Latifah's second foray into the realm of jazz, soul, and blues. Once again, she embraces a sultry and saucy mix of fabled female vocalists who've inspired her. Exploring the songbooks of PeggyLee, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae,Roberta Flack, Mary Wells, Phoebe Snow, and more, Latifah adds her warm vocals and playful personality to a hand-picked mix of familiar classics and forgotten jewels.

Like its predecessor, the album features contributions by a number of stellar artists. On Trav'lin' Light, Latifah is joined by neo-soul singers Jill Scott and Erykah Badu, piano and keyboard pioneers George Duke and Joe Sample and bass virtuoso Christian McBride. Engineered by 15-time Grammy® winner Al Schmitt, the album also features Jeff Hamilton (drums), Anthony Wilson (guitar) and John Clayton (arrangements). Furthermore, Latifah realized a lifelong dream of recording with Stevie Wonder, who contributes harmonica on one track.

Audiences will see Latifah in the most highly anticipated film of the Spring Hairspray as Motormouth Maybelle with John Travolta and Michelle Pfeifer. An acclaimed television and film actress, Grammy® Award-winning rapper and now a critically lauded singer, Queen Latifah highlighted her multitude of talents in the recent film adaptation of Chicago. As Mama Morton, she emerged as a formidable singer and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe® nomination and a SAG Award nomination. Latifah has also starred in such films as Life Support , which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, the box-office hit Bringing Down the House and Living Out Loud, in which she sang the Billy Strayhorn classic "Lush Life" (produced by Mervyn Warren of Take 6).

Track Listing:

1.	Poetry Man
2.	Georgia Rose
3.	Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
4.	Don't Cry Baby
5.	I Love Being Here With You
6.	I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
7.	Trav'lin' Light
8.	Sugar In My Bowl
9.	I'm Not In Love
10.	What Love Has Joined Together
11.	How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side)
12.	Gone Away
13.	I Know Where I've Been ("Hairspray")

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