Who is Onika Tanya Maraj?

Who is Onika Tanya Maraj?^[3][4] The rap world knows her by her stage name Nicki Minaj. Minaj is a Trinidadian hip hop recording artist.^[5] In August 2009, Minaj signed to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown.^[6]

Minaj was born on December 8, 1984 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago^{[7][3][4][8][9]} to parents of Indian and Afro Trinidadian descent.^[10][11] She lived in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago^[12] with her grandmother until age five, because her parents were looking for a place to live in the Queens borough of New York City. Her mother would occasionally visit, and one day, when Minaj was five, her mother picked her up to move to Queens.^[3] According to Minaj, her father drank alcohol, took drugs, and once tried to kill her mother by setting the house on fire.^[13] She attended Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School 210, where she played the clarinet.^[3] She graduated from LaGuardia High School.^[14][15] At LaGuardia, a school specializing in music and the visual and performing arts, Minaj participated in the drama program.^[14] She had initially planned to sing at LaGuardia, but lost her voice on the day of the audition. She once worked at a Red Lobster restaurant in the Bronx.^[14]

Early life

Music career

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2004–09: Career beginnings and mixtapes

Minaj created some mixtape tracks, and appeared in XXL magazine.^[6] In 2008 she won the Female Artist of the Year award at the Underground Music Awards.^[16] Minaj released Beam Me Up Scotty, another mixtape, in April 2009 which received positive coverage on both BET and MTV.^[17][18]

2010–present: Pink Friday

Minaj's debut album, Pink Friday was released on November 19, 2010.^[19] A buzz single, "Massive Attack", was released in April.^[20] In August, Minaj released "Your Love" as the first official single from her debut album. The single peaked at 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, 7 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and topped the Rap Songs chart. Minaj became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List^[21] and the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002.^[22] In October 2010, Minaj became the first artist to have seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart simultaneously.^[23]

Musical style and image

Image

In an interview with Vibe Minaj discussed her sexual image stating, "[w]hen I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot... and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing."^[24] In an interview with Interview, Minaj commented on her sexual image again stating, "I made a conscious decision to try to tone down the sexiness, I want people—especially young girls—to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You’ve got to have something else to go with that.”^[25]

Alter egos

While growing up Nicki was surrounded by constant trouble and fighting between her parents.^[26] To escape her real life problems she would create characters and live her life through them.^[26] In an interview with New York she stated, “[t]o get away from all their fighting, I would imagine being a new person. "Cookie" was my first identity—that stayed with me for a while. I went on to "Harajuku Barbie", then "Nicki Minaj". Fantasy was my reality.”^[26]

For her debut album, Minaj created another alter-ego named "Roman Zolanski".^[27] She stated that in songs like "Bottoms Up" with Trey Songz it is not Nicki rapping, but instead Roman Zolanski, and claims that Roman is her "twin sister". Roman has been compared toEminem's alter ego Slim Shady, and on the song "Roman's Revenge" from Pink Friday, Minaj and Eminem collaborate, using these alter egos.^[28] In songs such as "All I Do Is Win (Remix)" it is Nicki rapping.^[27] Minaj stated that on her debut album, fans will get to "meet" Nicki, Roman and Onika.^[27]

On November 18, 2010 Nicki Minaj assumed a different alter-ego named "Nicki Teresa".^[29] Wearing a colorful scarf around her head, she went around as the "healer to her fans" as she visited them at The Garden of Dreams Foundation at Fuse studios in New York City.^[30]

Influences

Minaj has stated that artists who have influenced her musical style include Lil Wayne, Lauryn Hill, Jadakiss, Natasha Bedingfield, Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim and Missy Elliott.^[31][32]

Personal life

While some songs and interviews have implied that Minaj is bisexual,^[33][34] she has said that she does not date nor have sex with women,^[35] but added in an interview with Out magazine, "I don’t date men either".^[36] In an interview with Vibe she commented, "I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don’t tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don’t have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I’m gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined."^[37] She reiterated her dislike of being labeled in an interview with OUT, saying: "The point is, everyone is not black and white. There are so many shades in the middle, and you’ve got to let people feel comfortable with saying what they want to say when they want to say it."^[36]

During an interview in the May 2010 issue of Details, Minaj was asked if she felt hip-hop was becoming more gay friendly. She responded, "I think the world is getting more gay-friendly, so hip-hop is too. But it's harder to imagine an openly gay male rapper being embraced, people view gay men as having no street credibility. But I think we'll see one in my lifetime."^[34]

Discography

Main article: Nicki Minaj discography

• Pink Friday (2010)

Award and nominations

• 2008 Underground Music Awards
  
  • Female Artist of the Year (Won)^[16]

• 2010 BET Awards^[38]
  • Best Female Hip-Hop Artist (Won)
  • Best New Artist (Won)
  • Best Group (Young Money) - (Won)
  • Best New Artist (Young Money) - (Nominated)
  • Viewer's Choice: "BedRock" (Young Money feat. Lloyd) (Nominated)

• 2010 Teen Choice Awards^[39]
  • Choice Breakout Artist – Female (Nominated)

• 2010 MTV Video Music Awards
  • Best New Artist: "Massive Attack" (feat. Sean Garrett) (Nominated)

• 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards
  • Rookie of the Year (Won)
  • Made You Look (Won)
  • People's Champ (Won)
  • Hustler of the Year (Nominated)
  • Lyricist of the Year (Nominated)

• 2010 MOBO Awards
  • Best International Act (Nominated) ^[40]

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Who is Melissa Katherine Rycroft?

Who is Melissa Katherine Rycroft? The entertainment world knows her as Melissa Rycroft from Dallas, Texas, is a reality television contestant and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. She was a drill team officer at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas where she graduated in 2001. She participated as a contestant on the thirteenth season of ABC's The Bachelor, and CMT reality TV series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. She was a contestant on the eighth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Rycroft was named to People magazine's list of World's Most Beautiful People 2009 and was also named as #99 on Maxim's list of "Hot 100 of 2009".

                                                         

Who is Stephanie Courtney?

Who is Stephanie Courtney? Millions of people best knows her for playing the advertising character Flo for Progressive Insurance^[2] She  is an American actress and comedienne. and is noted for her recurring roles on several television shows including: the voices of Renee the Receptionist and Joy Peters on the Adult Swim comedy Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004–2006); Marge on the AMC drama Mad Men (2007); and Diane on the ABC comedy Cavemen (2007). Courtney is a senior member of The Groundlings improvisational theater in Los Angeles, California.

Early life and education

Courtney was born February 8, 1970 in Stony Point, New York. She graduated from Binghamton University in 1992.^[3] Graduated from North Rockland High School.

Career

In addition to her role as quirky, chipper insurance salesperson Flo in a series of commercials for Progressive Auto Insurance (2008–2010), Courtney has appeared in ads for Skittles (2008), Wienerschnitzel (2005), SC Johnson Glade products, and General Mills breakfast cereal. (2009–2010)

She has also appeared in such major motion pictures as Blades of Glory, The Heartbreak Kid, and in the indie comedy Melvin Goes to Dinner,^[4] for which she and the ensemble cast were awarded the Copper Wing at the 2003 Phoenix Film Festival. you know that Courtney is an actress and comedian?

Did you know that a Facebook page called "Flo, The Progressive Girl" had garnered a little over 1 million fans? 

Courtney was also a member of the improv team Sliced Bread who were competitors on World Cup Comedy, a show similar to Whose Line Is It Anyway, on the former PAX Network (now known as the Ion Network).
She has also appeared on an episode of Angel in season 2, entitled "Dad."

Personal life

In 2008, she married Scott Kolanach, the lighting director at The Groundlings Theatre.^[1]
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Who is Stephen Victor Tallarico?

Who is Stephen Victor Tallarico? The Entertainment and music world knows him as Steven Tyler, he is an American musician, actor, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the frontman and lead singer for the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Tyler was also known for his heavy drug and alcohol abuse, though he completed drug rehabilitation in 1986 and maintained sobriety for over 20 years until he started abusing painkillers in 2009 and has since returned to rehab. During his high-energy stage performances, he usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand. He was recently named 99th on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers. and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Aerosmith, and he was the presenter when AC/DC won the place in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. He is also ranked 3rd on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.

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Who is Kate Elizabeth Winslet?  The Entertainmnet  world knows her as Kate Winslet, she is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She is the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). Winslet has been acclaimed for both dramatic and comedic work in projects ranging from period to contemporary films, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicised indie films. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been nominated for an Emmy Award for television acting.

Who is Brook Busey?

Who is Brook Busey? The entertainment world knows her by the pen name Diablo Cody,^[1] She is an American screenwriter, stripper, writer, blogger, journalist, and author.
She was first known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her Pussy Ranch blog and her 2006 memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. Cody achieved critical acclaim worldwide for the script of the 2007 film Juno, winning the Academy

Award for Best Original Screenplay.


A dramedy created by Cody, called United States of Tara, based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, was picked up for 12 episodes (including pilot) by the U.S. cable TV network Showtime, the Canadian channel The Movie Network and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.^[2][3] After four episodes aired, the show was renewed for a second season.^[4] Two days after the second season premiere, it was renewed for a third season. ^[5]

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Who is Demetrius Flenory? The Drug and Trafficking world knows him as Big Meech? Big Meech is the  leader of The Black Mafia Family (BMF). The BMF  was a drug trafficking organization originally based out of Detroit, Michigan. Started by the Flenory brothers, Demetrius and Terry, by the year 2000 they had established multi-kilogram cocaine distribution cells in cities throughout the United States. Through their Los Angeles-based drug source, they had direct links to Mexican-based drug cartels.^[1] They established two main hubs for their operation; the Atlanta, Georgia hub was operated by older brother Demetrius, while the Los Angeles, California hub was operated by Terry.

Around 2000, they began to try to legitimize and enter the Hip-Hop music scene, starting a company called BMF Entertainment. Through BMF Entertainment they helped promote a number of artists, including Young Jeezy, as well as BMF Entertainment's sole artists, Bleu DaVinci. Before their entrance into the music business, they were known to associate with a number of high-profile hip-hop artists, including Jay-Z, Fabolous, and Bun B.
In 2005 the Drug Enforcement Administration indicted members of the Black Mafia Family; ultimately securing convictions of running a Continuing Criminal Enterprise against the Flenory brothers. Both would be sentenced to 30 years to life.^[2] Subsequent indictments would eventually target over 150 members of the organization. Prosecutors would allege the organization made over $270 million over the course of the conspiracy.

Who is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar?

Who is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar? The Cricket World knows Tendulkar as an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket.
He is the only player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket. In 2002, just 12 years into his career Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards. In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven. He is sometimes referred to as Little Master or Master Blaster.

Tendulkar is the first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has 94 centuries in international cricket. On 17 October 2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form of the game, having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket. He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history and 200 runs in a one-day international match. In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously. Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009, and has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour.

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