Cardi B’s Father: Who Carlos Almánzar Is

Cardi B’s public career

Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, formerly Belcalis Marlenis Cephus and known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper. She was born on 11 October 1992 in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City, and was raised in Highbridge in the South Bronx. She spent much of her childhood at her paternal grandmother’s home in Washington Heights and credits that upbringing with giving her a thick accent. Her stage name, Cardi B, developed from Bacardi, the rum brand that had formerly been her nickname.

Almánzar launched her music career in 2016 and released two mixtapes. Her first studio album, Invasion of Privacy, came out in 2018 and led to the first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album won by a solo female artist; “Bodak Yellow” and “I Like It” both reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Her second album, Am I the Drama?, arrived in 2025 and made her the only female rapper whose first two albums both debuted at the top of the Billboard 200. A September 2026 report said that she was dating Nigerian soccer player Maduka Okoye. A September 2016 Dazed article addressed her sexuality, and biographical categories identify her as bisexual.

Who Carlos Almánzar is

Carlos Almánzar is Cardi B’s father. He is Dominican and is identified as a taxi driver. These are the principal details attached to his identity in public descriptions of Cardi B’s family: his name, his relationship to her, his nationality and his occupation. No separate professional title or institutional role has been attached to him.

Carlos Almánzar has no public performing role in Cardi B’s music career. His documented role in her public biography is familial rather than professional. He has not been publicly identified as a collaborator, manager or fellow musician. He is therefore best identified in reference terms as the Dominican taxi driver who is Cardi B’s father.

The father-daughter relationship

Cardi B and Carlos Almánzar are documented as father and daughter. Carlos Almánzar’s public identity includes being her father, while his Dominican nationality matches the account of her Dominican father in a post Cardi B published on 21 April 2016. The post as quoted identifies his background but not his name, so the link between that statement and Carlos Almánzar comes from the broader biographical description of her family.

The father-daughter relationship is not presented through a dated joint appearance or a public statement spoken by Carlos Almánzar. The date on which Cardi B first referred to him has not been published, and the date when his role was first identified in biographical descriptions has not been published either. Her April 2016 post remains a contemporaneous indication of his nationality, while her April 2021 discussion of her Afro-Latina roots concerns the wider theme of nationality and family background.

Cardi B’s wider family

Clara Almánzar is Cardi B’s mother. Kulture Kiari Cephus is Cardi B’s child. Neither Clara Almánzar’s date of birth nor Kulture Kiari Cephus’s date of birth has been published, and the family roles are stated without further dates. Both names are part of Cardi B’s documented family background, and neither should be treated as a former or alternative name for Carlos Almánzar.

Hennesy Carolina is Cardi B’s sibling. Her date of birth has not been published, so no year can be attached to her place in the family. The relationship labels distinguish the wider family clearly: Clara Almánzar is Cardi B’s mother, Carlos Almánzar is her father, Hennesy Carolina is her sibling and Kulture Kiari Cephus is her child. No years accompany these four relationships in public family descriptions.

Carlos Almánzar’s work outside the family

Carlos Almánzar works as a taxi driver. He is Dominican and is publicly identified as Cardi B’s father, so the occupational description is not an independent entertainment credit. No other occupation has been publicly attributed to him. His public role is centred on the family relationship rather than a separate career in entertainment.

His employer has not been published. Neither has the name of any taxi company, the location where he works or any licence information. His working life is therefore described only by the occupation “taxi driver”, without a chronology, a business name or a connection to a particular route.

Details that remain unpublished

Carlos Almánzar’s date of birth has not been published. His age, birthplace and year of birth are also unknown publicly. No fuller biographical account of his early life or family background has appeared in print. These details are absent rather than disputed, and his public description remains limited to his identity as a Dominican taxi driver and Cardi B’s father.

No account has appeared in print of how Carlos Almánzar and Cardi B describe their father-daughter relationship. The date of their first public discussion has not been published, and Carlos Almánzar has not been publicly documented discussing her work, her family or his own career. His career before taxi driving is also undocumented.