@NICK MINAJ... a woman in a red leather dress standing against a red wall with her hands on her hips Nicki Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj, is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress and model. She was born on December 8, 1982 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. Her father is Robert Maraj, who worked as a financial executive, and her mother, Carol Maraj, was a foreign exchange teller and gospel singer. She has four siblings...