Rapper Nicki Minaj to join Britney Spears on tour

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Bollywood personalities Shabana Azmi (L) and Urmila Matondkar light candles during a candle light vigil against corruption in Mumbai April 8, 2011. Veteran social activist Anna Hazare, whose hunger strike against corruption is drawing growing support, rejected on Friday an offer of talks saying the government was ignoring the wishes of the people. Thousands of Indians held demonstrations across the country for another day on Friday in support of Hazare, who is demanding a tough anti-corruption law. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash
Bollywood personalities Shabana Azmi (L) and Urmila Matondkar light candles during a candle light vigil against corruption in Mumbai April 8, 2011. Veteran social activist Anna Hazare, whose hunger strike against corruption is drawing growing support, rejected on Friday an offer of talks saying the government was ignoring the wishes of the people. Thousands of Indians held demonstrations across the country for another day on Friday in support of Hazare, who is demanding a tough anti-corruption law. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Female rapper Nicki  Minaj will join Britney Spears on her North American tour this  summer, promoters said yesterday, ending weeks of speculation  about the line-up.

Bollywood personalities Shabana Azmi (L) and Urmila Matondkar light candles during a candle light vigil against corruption in Mumbai April 8, 2011. Veteran social activist Anna Hazare, whose hunger strike against corruption is drawing growing support, rejected on Friday an offer of talks saying the government was ignoring the wishes of the people. Thousands of Indians held demonstrations across the country for another day on Friday in support of Hazare, who is demanding a tough anti-corruption law. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

Minaj, 26, one of the hottest young American artists since  her 2010 “Pink Friday” album debut, will join Spears on her  “Femme Fatale” tour starting in June, Live Nation said.

California electro pop band Jessie and the Toy Boys, and  rising Australian twin sisters Nervo, will also support Spears  on the tour to promote her No.1 album released in March.

“This is the Femme Fatale tour and I am thrilled to have  Nicki Minaj, Jessie and the Toy Boys, and Nervo join me and get  everyone on the dance floor,” Spears said in a statement.

Spears, 29, had said last month that Spanish heartthrob  Enrique Iglesias would tour with her, but media reports  suggested that Iglesias had not agreed.

Spears has managed to recover her career after a highly  public personal and professional meltdown in 2007. Her 2008  comeback album “Circus” was followed by a sell-out world tour  and the new single from her album “Hold It Against me” debuted  at No.1 on the Billboard singles charts in January.