Onika Tanya Marajó (born Onika Tanya Maraj; race. Dec. 8, 1982), better known as Nicki Minaj (born Nicki Minaj) - rapper and singer-songwriter. It was opened by Lil 'Wayne, who, having heard mixtapes «Playtime Is Over», «Sucka Free» and «Beam Me Up Scotty» signed a contract with her in the name of his label Young Money Entertainment in August 2009.
Minaj flows in the veins of a mixture of African and Native American blood. She was born and lived for some time on the island of Trinidad with her grandmother, and in five years the girl moved to Queens, New York (Queens, New York). Childhood Minaj is hardly rosy for her stories father regularly get drunk, took drugs, and once even tried to kill her mother and almost burned for the sake of the house. In New York's LaGuardia School in Manhattan in-depth study of music and the performing arts, the girl participated in the local theater group, interested in singing and dancing.
Onika invented a pseudonym as a child. Constant scandals and quarrels between parents strongly influenced by a little girl, from the problems of the outside world she tried to run away, thinking himself the "new person." The first alter-ego, Niki became a kind of cookie (Cookie), the second - the Harajuku Barbie (Harajuku Barbie), and only later came to light Nicki Minaj. As an adult, Minaj has created itself a new "ghostly double" - by its repeated application in a number of rap songs upcoming album not read it myself, and a Roman Zolanski (Roman Zolanski). The singer promises that the album will include songs at once Nicky, Onik and Zolanski.
Minaj's musical career began in the same way as that of the hundreds of singers before her - she recorded a few demo tracks. In 2008, Onik to win the prize 'Underground Music Awards in the category "Artist of the Year", a year later (April 2009) she was able to release one of their records, «Beam Me Up Scotty»; critics greeted her debut project quite warm .
In August of 2009. Nicky was spotted rapper Young Money on MySpace and signed to his label Young Money Entertainment, which released several mix-clans singer with Young Money and Lil 'Wayne.
The debut single «Massive Attack» Minaj released 13 April 2010 on the song helped the girl to work Sean Garrett (Sean Garrett) and Alex Da Kid (Alex Da Kid). March 16 had a video for the song, filmed in the desert near Lancaster, California (Lancaster, California); supervised the director Hype Williams (Hype Williams). Particularly successful single, unfortunately, to no avail, in the same «US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles» he managed to rise only to 22 th place. Apparently, so the song was not included and was released in November 2010 debut album «Pink Friday».
Following «Massive Attack» followed and release of the first official single - the song «Your Love» hit the airwaves before the release of their debut album - Minaj has performed it on one of their demo recordings. It should be noted that the current moment «Your Love» - the most successful single singer, he managed to get up to 14th place in the «Billboard Hot 100" to the 7th - in the «Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs» and topped the charts «Rap Songs»; way, Nicky became the first female rapper, awarded 1st place in this chart from 2002. The video for the song was filmed Lil Ix (Lil X); aired it out on July 21, 2010. The second single from the album, «Right Thru Me» was released shortly before the actual album.
In the same 2010 Nicky won the BET HIP-HOP AWARDS as the best rapper female.
Several songs and interviews with fans formed a singer almost one opinion about her bisexuality. First, like Nicky has denied this, saying it did not occur, and not have sex with women; later, however, it became known as the men she had no relationship yet. Minaj stated that it applies equally well to people of all beliefs and lifestyles and is not going to condemn anyone, she is a singer in the first place, trying to avoid the strict framework of some definitions. Topic of human sexuality is not just popped up in conversations with Nicky - so, in an interview with «Details» in May of 2010, Minaj argued that hip-hop as a whole is becoming more tolerant of gays - and yet openly "gay" rapper unlikely can currently gain success with the public. 2002
Minaj flows in the veins of a mixture of African and Native American blood. She was born and lived for some time on the island of Trinidad with her grandmother, and in five years the girl moved to Queens, New York (Queens, New York). Childhood Minaj is hardly rosy for her stories father regularly get drunk, took drugs, and once even tried to kill her mother and almost burned for the sake of the house. In New York's LaGuardia School in Manhattan in-depth study of music and the performing arts, the girl participated in the local theater group, interested in singing and dancing.
Onika invented a pseudonym as a child. Constant scandals and quarrels between parents strongly influenced by a little girl, from the problems of the outside world she tried to run away, thinking himself the "new person." The first alter-ego, Niki became a kind of cookie (Cookie), the second - the Harajuku Barbie (Harajuku Barbie), and only later came to light Nicki Minaj. As an adult, Minaj has created itself a new "ghostly double" - by its repeated application in a number of rap songs upcoming album not read it myself, and a Roman Zolanski (Roman Zolanski). The singer promises that the album will include songs at once Nicky, Onik and Zolanski.
Minaj's musical career began in the same way as that of the hundreds of singers before her - she recorded a few demo tracks. In 2008, Onik to win the prize 'Underground Music Awards in the category "Artist of the Year", a year later (April 2009) she was able to release one of their records, «Beam Me Up Scotty»; critics greeted her debut project quite warm .
In August of 2009. Nicky was spotted rapper Young Money on MySpace and signed to his label Young Money Entertainment, which released several mix-clans singer with Young Money and Lil 'Wayne.
The debut single «Massive Attack» Minaj released 13 April 2010 on the song helped the girl to work Sean Garrett (Sean Garrett) and Alex Da Kid (Alex Da Kid). March 16 had a video for the song, filmed in the desert near Lancaster, California (Lancaster, California); supervised the director Hype Williams (Hype Williams). Particularly successful single, unfortunately, to no avail, in the same «US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles» he managed to rise only to 22 th place. Apparently, so the song was not included and was released in November 2010 debut album «Pink Friday».
Following «Massive Attack» followed and release of the first official single - the song «Your Love» hit the airwaves before the release of their debut album - Minaj has performed it on one of their demo recordings. It should be noted that the current moment «Your Love» - the most successful single singer, he managed to get up to 14th place in the «Billboard Hot 100" to the 7th - in the «Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs» and topped the charts «Rap Songs»; way, Nicky became the first female rapper, awarded 1st place in this chart from 2002. The video for the song was filmed Lil Ix (Lil X); aired it out on July 21, 2010. The second single from the album, «Right Thru Me» was released shortly before the actual album.
In the same 2010 Nicky won the BET HIP-HOP AWARDS as the best rapper female.
Several songs and interviews with fans formed a singer almost one opinion about her bisexuality. First, like Nicky has denied this, saying it did not occur, and not have sex with women; later, however, it became known as the men she had no relationship yet. Minaj stated that it applies equally well to people of all beliefs and lifestyles and is not going to condemn anyone, she is a singer in the first place, trying to avoid the strict framework of some definitions. Topic of human sexuality is not just popped up in conversations with Nicky - so, in an interview with «Details» in May of 2010, Minaj argued that hip-hop as a whole is becoming more tolerant of gays - and yet openly "gay" rapper unlikely can currently gain success with the public. 2002
