BIOGRAPHY OF ANGIE MARTINEZ

Angie Martinez (Angela Martinez) is a Grammy-nominated American rapper, actress, and radio artist, born January 9, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. She is nicknamed “The Voice of New York”.

At the age of 16, Angie got her first break from radio responding to hotlines from urban radio station WQHT. She met DJ Funkmaster Flex and started working with him as his protege. Soon she began hosting the weekday Afternoon Drive, alongside Hot 97’s DJ Enuff, where she had the opportunity to interview some of the biggest names in music like Jay Z and Mariah Carey.

She resigned from Hot 97 on June 18, 2014 and signed with Power 105.1 on June 19, 2014. In 201

AGE ANGIE MARTINEZ

Angie was born on January 9, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States (48 years old in 2019)

ANGIE MARTINEZ ETHNICITY

Angie is of mixed ancestry as her mother was of Cuban and Dominican descent and her father was Puerto Rican.

ANGIE MARTINEZ HUSBAND/BABY DAD

Angie was married to Tamir ‘Nokio’ Ruffin of Dru Hill, but they separated and later divorced. Nokio is an American record producer, rapper and singer. After the divorce, she began dating musician Q-Tip, but they soon broke up.

ANGIE MARTINEZ JR.

Angie and her ex-husband Nokio welcomed their son, Niko Ruffin Jr in 2003.

ANGIE MARTINEZ FIANCÉ/FIANCÉ

Angie once revealed in an interview that she was engaged although she did not reveal her fiancé’s name. On February 14, she took to Instagram where she posted a photo of herself and her boyfriend and captioed it “me and me.”

ANGIE MARTINEZ RAP

In 1996, Angie was sued by one of her friends, KRS-One, for persecuting rap and she appeared on his track “Heartbeat” from his 1997 album I Got Next. Later, she was offered guest appearances on other musicians. She appeared in “Ladies Night Remix” by Lil’ Kim, Mary J. Blige (“Christmas in the City”), Cuban Link (“Freak Out”), NORE (“Oh No Remix”), Beenie Man (“Tell Me Remix”) and Funkmaster Flex & Big Kap’s compilation album, The Tunnel (“Wow”).

On April 17, 2001, she released her first album “Up Close and Personal”. The album debuted at number 32 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, [19] and #7 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album Chart.

Angie released her second album ‘Animal House’ on August 21, 2002. The album debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums Chart and the Billboard Hot Hip-Hop/R&B Charts selling 92,000 units in its first week.

ANGIE MARTINEZ SALARY

Angie has not released her salary, but it was alleged that she left Hot 97 after being offered double pay on Power 105.1.

ANGIE NET WORTH

Angie has an estimated net worth of $2 million

ANGIE MARTINEZ RADIO SHOW/SHOW

hosts an afternoon radio show that has consistently ranked #1 with more young listeners than any other radio program in the country on Power 105.1 (WWPR-FM).

TALK-SHOW ANGIE MARTINEZ

In 2017, it was alleged that Angie had secured a talk show pilot with Debmar-Mercury, the same company that produces the Wendy Williams show. Wendy Williams was furious about it as they both had a howl in the 90s when they were both hosts of Hot 97 FM radio station.

Their troubles started when Wendy posted about Martinez’s relationship with rapper Q-Tip. Martinez confronted Wendy for the bearing that lends itself to a fight. Martinez wrote all about it in his book, “My Voice: A Memoir.”

ANGIE MARTINEZ TUPAC

Angie did an interview with Tupac Shakur in 1996, although the 2 hour interview was cut to 12 minutes because Angie did not want to contribute to the dangerous East and West Coast beef activities fueled by government media. He wrote about the interview on his memoir. During an interview during his book tour, he had this to say:

“It passed very quickly because I thought about it often throughout my career and I often thought about it. I don’t know if I would necessarily have shared this story, so it’s something I decided to release. I am grateful in many ways because it was a turning point in my career. It forced me to make decisions that put me on the path to the type of personality I wanted to be. It taught me a good lesson. I went with my instinct. I didn’t know how this was going to turn out. I was afraid to air this interview and I didn’t want to be responsible for making it worse. And the truth is, I made that decision and I’m proud of it after all these years later. I think of the tragedy that happened to [Tupac and Biggie] like, ‘What if I turned that off?” I always would have wondered if I had contributed in any way to what happened, even though I might not. In the end, it happened anyway, but I know that I did what I could do not to contribute to it. It gave me strength. It helped me draw my line in terms of who I am as a personality. ‘

ANGIE MARTINEZ BOOK

Angie released her memoir “The Voice” in 2016. The memoir chronicles her journey from elementary school hip-hop junkie to the oft-proclaimed “Voice of New York,” spanning a radio career spanning more than two decades as a personality of the city’s first hip-hop station, Hot 97.

She shared special anecdotes about her late-breaking interviews with Jay Z, R. Kelly, Chris Brown and West Coast rap legend Tupac Shakur.

ANGIE COOKBOOK

Angie co-authored, Healthy Latin Eating: Our Favorite Family Recipes Remixed with Angelo Sosa. It’s a cookbook that offers more than 100 innovative and delicious recipes that combine the art of Latin cuisine with healthy eating. Angie writes in her introduction that this is not a diet book. She shares her personal passion for clean and healthy living with the Latin community.

ALBUM D’ANGIE MARTINEZ

• 2002: Animal House
• 2001: Up Close and Personal

ANGIE MARTINEZ SONGS

• A new day
• animal house
• I’ve been around the world
• Breathe
• Coast 2 Coast (gently)
• Dem Thangz
• Every little girl
• Situation f * cked Up
• All!! (muthafuka)
• Gutter 2 The Fancy Ish
• Heart and soul (interlude)
• if i can go
• Ladies and gentlemen
• Combat de dames (interludes)
• Live at Jimmy’s
• Live Big (remix)
• Live from the streets
• My love
• Never
• New York, New York
• Not Playaz
• So good
• Take you home
• thug love
• Waitin ‘On
• we can get it
• What is that sound

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