Born Onika Tanya Mara, better known as Nicki Minaj, she began her career in 2007 as a simple backing vocalist. In 2010 she released her first album entitled “Pink Friday” which went platinum in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. With her second work, “Pink Friday: Roma Reloaded”, released in 2012, she achieved another Platinum in Ireland. In this period, her first exceptional collaborations came out with Eminem in “Roman’s Revenge” and with Drake in “Moment 4 Life”.

It was in 2014 that Nicki Minaj became a truly international phenomenon: her third album, “The Pinkprint”, was released, twice Platinum in the USA and the UK. The album includes the gold record hit in Italy “Anaconda”. In 2018 it was time for “Queen”, the artist’s fourth album, which received two platinum records in Canada and the USA. In 2023 the highly anticipated fifth album entitled “Pink Friday 2” was released, from which the single “The Last Time I Saw You” was extracted. Also from 2023 is the song “Barbie World” together with Ice Spice, contained in the album “Barbie: The Album”, soundtrack of the film of the same name.

Nicki opened the new year, during which she will return to sing in Italy almost ten years after her last live in the Peninsula, with the single “Big Foot”, a diss track in response to Megan Thee Stallion, released surprisingly on January 29, 2024 .

The singer has now established herself as an artist who loves to provoke and over the course of her career she has already accumulated numerous awards, including 7 consecutive Bet Awards, 9 American Music Awards and 10 MTV Europe Music Awards. Nicki Minaj is not afraid to show how much her music has evolved and she continues to demonstrate it thanks to her successes, also approaching genres other than her own.