Nicki Minaj’s father, Robert Maraj, died, following a hit-and-run accident. Nicki Minaj is breaking her silence about her father’s death, Robert Maraj, for the first time.
Despite writing she wasn’t ready to “discuss the passing” of her father yet, the rapper, born Onika Tanya Maraj, broke her silence in a personal message on her website.
“I can say it has been the most devastating loss of my life. I find myself wanting to call him all the time. More so now that he’s gone,” Minaj wrote. “May his soul rest in paradise. He was very loved & will be very missed.
Who was Nicki Minaj’s father Robert Maraj?
Mr, Maraj, 64-year-old, was crossing the street in Long Island when he was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene in February. According to Minaj’s representative Joseph Carozza, he was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead the next day.
Maraj was of mixed Afro and Indo-Trinidadian ancestry. Maraj was from Saint James, Trinidad, and Tobago. When Nicki was a little girl living with her grandmother in Saint James, Robert and his wife, Carol Maraj, was living in America, looking for work and a house in Queens, New York City. After finding a home, Minaj moved to Queens with her parents at the age of five.
