Thursday 24 November 2011

Nicki Minaj will get the Rising Star Award

Nicki Minaj will get the Rising Star Award 



On Wednesday, Billboard announced Nicki Minaj will get the Rising Star Award at the upcoming Women in Music Event on Dec. 2. "Pink Friday" helped her become the first female rapper in a decade to top the Billboard 200.
Let us see their little background..Onika Tanya Maraj born December 8, 1982, better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj  is a Trinidadian-born American recording artist signed to Young Money Entertainment. She was born in Saint James, Trinida and Tobago, but moved to the Queens borough of New York City at age five.
Minaj began her music career in 2007 after she released her first mixtape Playtime Is Over. The mixtape was followed by the mixtapes Sucka Free and Beam Me Up Scotty which were released in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Minaj had her first label success after fellow American rapper
Her 2010 debut album, Pink Friday, quickly became a commercial success, peaking at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 and being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release. She became the first artist ever to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her second single, "Your Love", reached first on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart.

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