Started from the bottom now she here! Check out footage of young Nicki Minaj, when she was just Onika Maraj, a high school girl from Queens with Hollywood dreams. The dreamer turned superstar studied theater at the famed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Nicki isn’t the only LaGuardia alumni who made it from the auditorium to the big stage. Alumni Vanessa A. Williams, Eartha Kitt, Omar Epps and Wesley Snipes also got their beginnings at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Take a look at young Nicki below:
