NICKI MINAJ
Nicki Minaj, stage name 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 started rapping in 2004 in the group HoodStars together with Safaree Samuels, her solo career in the music world began in 2007 with the help of American 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 record in the UK 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 greater success at an international level, driven by Starships, the first single from the album, which sold over seven million copies worldwide, thus becoming the singer's most popular single overseas.
After over two years of break from the music scene, the rapper returns with her third album The Pinkprint (2014), containing the hit Anaconda; the release of the fourth studio album, entitled Queen and critically acclaimed, is dated 2018. In 2020 he obtained his first number one singles in 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 which in 2022 awarded her the prestigious Video Vanguard Award as part of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Considered 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 hundred most influential people in the world according to Time.
Over the course of her career, she has received ten nominations for Grammy Awards, won eight American Music Awards, eleven BET Awards, one BRIT Award, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards and was the recipient of Billboard's Women in Music Award 2011 Rising Star.
She is also the fourth best-selling female artist in music history and the best-selling female rapper of all time, with twenty million singles as a lead artist, sixty million collaborative singles, and over five million albums all over the world.
Although she started rapping in 2004 in the group HoodStars together with Safaree Samuels, her solo career in the music world began in 2007 with the help of American 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 record in the UK 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 greater success at an international level, driven by Starships, the first single from the album, which sold over seven million copies worldwide, thus becoming the singer's most popular single overseas.
After over two years of break from the music scene, the rapper returns with her third album The Pinkprint (2014), containing the hit Anaconda; the release of the fourth studio album, entitled Queen and critically acclaimed, is dated 2018. In 2020 he obtained his first number one singles in 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 which in 2022 awarded her the prestigious Video Vanguard Award as part of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Considered 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 hundred most influential people in the world according to Time.
Over the course of her career, she has received ten nominations for Grammy Awards, won eight American Music Awards, eleven BET Awards, one BRIT Award, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards and was the recipient of Billboard's Women in Music Award 2011 Rising Star.
She is also the fourth best-selling female artist in music history and the best-selling female rapper of all time, with twenty million singles as a lead artist, sixty million collaborative singles, and over five million albums all over the world.