Cardi B
Cardi B (born October 11, 1992 in New York ; real name Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar ) is an American rapper and TV personality .
Life
Almanzar was born in 1992 in the Bronx, New York, to a Trinidadian mother and a Dominican father . She grew up in Highbridge , a part of the New York borough of Bronx . As a teenager, she worked in a supermarket in Lower Manhattan , which was her last job before she started working as a stripper . She says she started stripping to escape poverty and it had a positive impact on her. In 2013, she started getting attention from her viral videos that she posted on Instagram and Vine . Almanzar derived the stage name "Cardi B" from the rum brand Bacardi . She was called "Bacardi" by her friends, but after her Instagram accounts were deleted under that name, Cardi B.
Almanzar has been married to the rapper Offset since September 2017 . Their daughter was born on July 10, 2018. In early December 2018, Almanzar announced on Instagram that she broke up with Offset. The two have been a couple again since February 2019.
In March 2019, a video was published in which Cardi B admitted that she had invited men into a hotel room while she was a stripper, drugged them and then robbed them. The video quickly spread on social media. Cardi B defended herself on the grounds that her "behavior at the time was necessary to survive."
Career
She became famous in 2015 as a performer in the reality format Love & Hip Hop: New York . In early 2016, she left the series to start a music career. On March 7, 2016, Almanzar released her first mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 . In September of the same year the album entitled Underestimated: The Album followed , an album produced by the KSR Group as a collaboration between Almanzar, HoodCelebrityy, SwiftOnDemand, Cashflow Harlem and Josh X.
On January 20, 2017 the second mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2 was released . At the end of February, Almanzar announced that she had signed her first recording deal with Atlantic Records . At the BET Awards 2017, which took place in May, she was nominated in the categories "Best Newcomer" and "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist". With the release of the single Bodak Yellow , which was released in June 2017, she achieved a commercial success. The song peaked at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 24 in the UK in October 2017 .
In January 2018 Almanzar released the remix single Finesse in collaboration with Bruno Mars , two months later the single Be Careful was released . On April 6, 2018, she released her first studio album, Invasion of Privacy . It went straight to number one on the Billboard 200.
In 2018, Time news magazine featured her in its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Discography
Studio albums
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Invasion of Privacy Atlantic |
DE39 (3 weeks) DE |
AT21 (2 weeks) AT |
CH20 (2 weeks) CH |
UK5  (32 weeks)UK |
US1  × 3
(… Where.)US |
First published: April 6, 2018
Sales: + 3,375,000 |
Filmography
- 2017: Being Mary Jane (TV series, episode 4x03)
- 2019: Hustlers
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- ^ Cardi B talks sexuality, society and being straight-up. In: dazeddigital.com. September 16, 2016, accessed September 28, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/fahrten/cardi-b-die-rapperin-ist-laengst-verheierter-8141658.html
- ↑ https://www.stern.de/kultur/nachwuchs-us-rapperin-cardi-b-ist-mutter-8166110.html
- ↑ https://www.n-tv.de/ Menschen/Cardi-B-trennt-sich-von-Ehemann-Offset- article20755707.html
- ↑ https://www.bunte.de/stars/stars-die-liebe/cardi-b-und-offset-zungenspiele-bei-den-grammys.html
- ↑ Chelsea Ritschel: Cardi B says she used to drug and rob men when she worked as a stripper. The Independent, March 27, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Cardi B explains why she 'drugged and robbed' men. BBC News , March 27, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Jack Shepherd: Cardi B defends herself after saying she used to drug and rob men when she worked as stripper. The Independent, March 27, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Cardi B's So-Called Life. In: thefader.com. February 29, 2016, accessed September 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Chart sources: UK US
- ↑ Cardi B's 'Invasion of Privacy' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Cardi B Is on the 2018 TIME 100 List. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
Web links
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cardi B |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Almanzar, Belcalis Marlenis (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rapper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx , New York , United States |