Queen Latifah Takes a Chair as The Voice Lands Its Season 30 Lineup

The Grammy-winning rapper, singer, and actress joins Kelly Clarkson, Adam Levine, and Riley Green for NBC's milestone thirtieth season of its long-running singing competition.

Queen Latifah has been confirmed as the fourth coach on The Voice Season 30, per Deadline.
She joins returning coach Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine, who came back to the show after a years-long absence.
Country artist Riley Green rounds out the panel as a first-time coach.
Season 30 will air on NBC; a premiere date has not yet been announced.
Latifah's credits span rap, R&B, film, and television, making her one of the most decorated entertainers to sit in the coaching chairs.

The red chairs have been filled before, but rarely with this kind of resume facing the stage. NBC confirmed this week that Queen Latifah is joining The Voice as a coach for Season 30, completing a panel that already had some weight to it.

Latifah — Grammy winner, Oscar nominee, hip-hop pioneer, and by this point a full institution — will take a seat alongside Kelly Clarkson, a Voice fixture who has won the show as a coach multiple times; Adam Levine, the Maroon 5 frontman who returned to the series after departing in 2019; and Riley Green, the country singer stepping into the coaching role for the first time.

The booking was reported by Deadline on Wednesday. Specific episode counts and a premiere window for Season 30 have not been released, though the show typically slots into NBC's fall schedule.

For The Voice, now in its third decade on air, the Latifah addition gives the panel a reach into R&B, rap, and pop that the current roster alone does not cover. Her own recording history stretches from the 1989 debut All Hail the Queen through the Chicago soundtrack, which earned her the Academy Award nomination in 2003.

Production on Season 30 is expected to begin later this year.