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Born as Onika Tanya Maraj in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, then raised in Queens, New York, the Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress became a familiar face to the pubic after releasing three of her mixtapes between 2007 and 2009, then signed to Young Money Entertainment in 2009.
In 2010, Nicki’s first ever studio album, Pink Friday, earned a number one spot on the US Billboard 200 as well as her second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Nicki went on to becoming the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously featuring on the US Billboard Hot 100.
In 2014, she released her third album, The Pinkprint, which produced her highest charting single ‘Anaconda’.
Nicki made her first movie debut as a voice artist in Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), then had a role in The Other Woman (2014) and Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016). Last year, she made Time’s 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
‘Nicki received ten Grammy nominations throughout her career, and has won six American Music Awards, eleven BET Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, and was the recipient of Billboard’s Women in Music 2011 Rising Star award.’
