NICKI MINAJ

Nicki Minaj, pseudonym of Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, was born on December 8, 1982 in Port Spain and is a Trinidadian rapper, singer and former model.

Although she began rapping in 2004 in the HoodStars group with Safaree Samuels, her solo career in the music world began in 2007 with the help of US rapper Lil Wayne. His first studio album, Pink Friday (2010), achieved considerable success in Anglo-Saxon countries, with three platinum records in the United States, one platinum in the United Kingdom and one in Australia.
Her most successful single was Super Bass, which sold over ten million copies in the United States alone.



The second album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, was released in 2012 and guaranteed the rapper a greater international success, driven by Starships, the first single from the album, which has sold over seven million copies worldwide, becoming thus the most popular single of the overseas singer.
After more than two years of hiatus from the music scene, the rapper returns with the third album The Pinkprint (2014), containing the hit Anaconda; the release of the fourth studio album, titled and critically acclaimed Queen, dates back to 2018. In 2020 she gets her first number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, thanks to the remix of the song Say So by Doja Cat and the single Trollz in collaboration with 6ix9ine.

Nicki Minaj was the first female artist included in the list of the best rappers according to MTV, a broadcaster that in 2022 awarded her the prestigious Video Vanguard Award as part of the annual MTV Video Music Awards. Regarded by the editor of the New York Times as "the most influential female rapper of all time," in 2016 she was included in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time.
Over the course of her career, she has received ten Grammy Award nominations, eight American Music Awards, eleven BET Awards, one BRIT Award, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards and was the recipient of the Billboard's Women in Music award. 2011 Rising Star. She is also the fourth highest-selling female artist in music history and the highest-selling female rapper of all time, with twenty million singles as the lead artist, sixty million collaborative singles and over five million. of albums around the world.