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Thu Feb 21, 2008
By John Fortunato
Gifted Sri Lankan refugee M.I.A. (a.k.a. Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) has faced savage bloodshed, racial tension and hurtful injustice her entire life. But that heartbreakingly scandalous turbulence only provided serious ammunition for the foxy, dark-skinned artisan.
Alongside her mother, M.I.A. fled to England’s lower-class council estates at her renegade father’s insistence, escaping the war-torn nation of Sri Lanka for the less violent segregationist subclass of London’s poverty-stricken Surrey section. Graduating from the prestigious Central St. Martins College, where she studied film and created graffiti art, M.I.A. soon acquired a cheap ’80s-derived Roland TR-505 beat machine and began to cut and paste minimalist, dub-style, dancehall-related hip-hop while reluctantly becoming an exotic fashion plate.
M.I.A. received underground praise, then worldwide recognition for her …READ MOREtags: 9 « add a comment
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