Biography
In the world of many extravagant dancers, rappers, singers and actors there's also one called Nicki Minaj. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago the world of fame got her after her first solo album Playtime Is Over 2007.
Quick Bio
Nicki Minaj was born on December 8th 1982. The place of birth is Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. At the moment she lives in Beverly Hills. Her nationality is American. Nicki Minaj's father was a singer of Gospel as well as an economist that was dealing with drug addiction and alcohol.
Carol Maraj, Nicki's sister, was also singer of Gospel and she worked as an accountant when Nikki was a young girl. She grew up with her older brother Jelani, and her older sister Maya apart from their father. Singer’s mother moved to Bronx New York to attend the university. Thankfully, the entire family began their new life in New York when Nikki was only 5 years old.
Music career
In the beginning of her career Nicki Minaj had a short-term contract that set her off to bigger deals. More precisely Nicki had a short-term contract with company Full Face. She rapped in Quartet by name the Hood Stars. She passed on some of her work to music industry 2007.
She ended up getting a contract with studio house Dirty Money Entertainment. She published her first CD by the name Playtime Is Over. One year later, Nicki published another album called Sucka Free. Thankfully to that project, she was named by the best artist in that year on the word underground music.
Net Worth
Nicki Minaj is the only woman that is placed on the Forbes list hip hop cash Kings in the year 2011 that was the first time she appeared on the food lists when she turned around 6.5 million. The year after she was placed on the 8th place of the same list making 15.5 million in 2013 she managed to come to the 4th place. At present her net worth is estimate at $85 million.
Personal life
With the end of year 2014 Nicki Minaj had broken up a long-term relationship with Safaree Samuels. They were together ever since 2000. Since Nicki Minaj came from extremely dysfunctional family. She created alter-egos so that she could run from reality for a short period of time. The first identity was Cookie and then afterwards she became Harajuku Barbie and in the end Nicki Minaj.
She passed on her alter-ego to her music career so that her in her new songs and music videos. In her songs and her music videos you can see people talking about their life stories, more precisely her alter egos. In November 2010 she created the character Nicki Teresa.
Philanthropy
It's no surprise that one of the greatest things about Nicki Minaj's that is she's a great supporter of education. On her Twitter account she often tells to young people and her fans to make sure that they have a proper education and she encourages them to go to school. She created the program Student Of The Game which is a scholarship program.
This enabled students to go to college with financial aid. It was a great shock and surprise to the entire country and worldwide. People celebrated giving support to this act of kindness.
