About Us & NickiAbout FTLB
For The Love of Barbie or FTLB is a blog dedicated to Nicki Minaj. We are in no way affiliated with her, or claim to be her. We simply love her and show just how much we do through tumblr.
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About Nicki Minaj
Quick Facts:
- Full Name: Onika Tanya Maraj
- Stage Name: Nicki Minaj
- Also Known As: her nickname “Nik”
- Date of Birth: December 8, 1984
- Birth Place: Southside, Jamaica Queens, NYC
- Current Residence: Atlanta, GA
- Siblings: 2 brothers and 1 sister
- Real Eye Color: Brown
- Natural Hair Color: Black
- Height: Around 5”4?
- Tattoos: One on her arm that says “God is with me always” in chinese.
- Piercings: None.
- Sexuality: While some songs and interviews have implied that Minaj is bisexual, she has said that she does not date nor have sex with women, but added “I don’t date men either.” In another interview she commented, “I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don’t tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don’t have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I’m gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined. The point is, everyone is not black and white. There are so many shades in the middle, and you’ve got to let people feel comfortable with saying what they want to say when they want to say it.”
- Race: Afro-Trinidadian and East Indian descent
- Occupation: Rapper, Singer-Songwriter
- Years Active: 2004-present
- Genres: Hip Hop, R&B, Rap (But Nicki reckon’s she’d venture out into other genres too like techno with D. Guetta or Pop)
- Website: www.MyPinkFriday.com
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/nickiminaj
- Labels: Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, and Universal Motown
Alter Egos
Harajuku Barbie, Martha Zolanski, Roman Zolanski, Cookie, Theresa (the Healer of her fans), Rosa, Dexter, Nicki the Boss, Nicki the Ninja, Nicki Lewinski
Biography
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1984), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is an Trinidadian rapper and singer-songwriter. In August 2009, Minaj signed to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown.
Minaj was born on December 8, 1984 in Trinidad. Nicki Minaj was born to parents of Indian and Afro Trinidadian descent. Minaj lived in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago with her grandmother until age five, because her parents were looking for a place to live in the Queens borough of New York City. Her mother would occasionally visit, and one day, when Minaj was five, her mother picked her up to move to Queens. According to Minaj, her father drank alcohol, took drugs, and once tried to kill her mother by setting the house on fire. She attended Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School 210, where she played the clarinet. She graduated from LaGuardia High School. At LaGuardia, a school specializing in music and the visual and performing arts, Minaj participated in the drama program. She had initially planned to sing at LaGuardia, but lost her voice on the day of the audition. She once worked at a Red Lobster restaurant in the Bronx.
Minaj created some mixtape tracks, and appeared in XXL magazine. In 2008 she won the Female Artist of the Year award at the Underground Music Awards. Minaj released Beam Me Up Scotty, another mixtape, in April 2009 which received positive coverage on both BET and MTV.
Minaj’s debut album, Pink Friday was released on November 19, 2010. A buzz single, “Massive Attack”, was released in April. In August 2010, Minaj released “Your Love” as the first official single from her debut album. The single peaked at 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, 7 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and topped the Rap Songs chart. Minaj became the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002. In October 2010, Minaj became the first artist to have seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart simultaneously.
