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Onika Tanya Maraj, know by her stage name Nicki Minaj, was born in 8 December 1982 in Saint James (a suburb of Trinidad and Tobago's capital city Port of Spain). Her parents are mixed Indian and Afro-Trinidadian ancestry and she lived in Saint James with her grandmother until age five, because her parents where looking for a place to live in the Queen borough of New York city at the time. Her mother would ocasionally visit, and one day, when Minaj was five, her mother picked her up to move to Queens. According to Minaj, her father drunk heavily, took drugs and once tried to kill her mother by setting the house on fire.

She attended Elizabet Blackwell Middle School 210, where she played the clarinet. She graduated from LaGuardia Highschool. At planned to sing at LaGuardia, but lost her voice on the day of the audition.