Azealia Banks
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Banks performing at the 2012 NME Awards
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| Birth name | Azealia Amanda Banks |
| Also known as | Miss Bank$ |
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May 31, 1991 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2008–present |
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| Website | azealiabanks |
Azealia Amanda Banks (/əˈziːliə/ born May 31, 1991) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and actress. Raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Banks began releasing music through MySpace in 2008, eventually being signed to XL Recordings at age 17. After releasing her debut single "212", she secured a recording contract with Interscope and Polydor Records, and later released her first extended play 1991 (2012). Banks' debut studio album Broke with Expensive Taste experienced several delays since its initial announcement before being released in 2014. In 2016, she released the mixtape Slay-Z. Banks' outspoken views and controversial social media presence have been the subject of media scrutiny throughout her career.
Azealia Amanda Banks was born on May 31, 1991 in Manhattan. Her mother raised her and two older sisters in Harlem, after their father died of pancreatic cancer when she was two years old. Following her father's death, Banks says that her mother "became really abusive—physically and verbally. Like she would hit me and my sisters with baseball bats, bang our heads up against walls, and she would always tell me I was ugly. I remember once she threw out all the food in the fridge, just so we wouldn't have anything to eat." Due to escalating violence, Banks moved out of her mother's home at age 14 to live with her older sister.
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