On December 8, 1982, Nicki Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj in Saint James, Trinidad, and Tobago.
Her father is a finance executive named Robert Maraj. Carol Maraj, her mother, was a gospel singer and foreign currency teller. She has two brothers, Brandon Lamar and Michaiah Maraj, as well as two sisters, Ming Maraj and Jelani Maraj.
Nicki’s parents moved to the United States when she was a child. She lived in Saint James with her grandmother until her mother sent for her and her brother when she was five years old.
Her father was a drug addict who was abusive to her mother in particular. In an apparent and futile attempt to murder her mother, he once set fire to the family house.
She had a good ear for music from a young age and played clarinet in her middle school band. Following that, she auditioned for and was accepted to ‘La Guardia High School,’ a magnet school for the arts.
Following an unsuccessful attempt at an acting career after high school, she worked a variety of odd jobs, many of which she was fired from due to obvious poor customer service.
Robert Maraj: What ethnicity is Nicki Minaj’s dad?
Robert Maraj (1956-2021), a Dougla (Afro-Trinidadian mother and Indo-Trinidadian father) financial executive and part-time gospel singer.
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