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M.I.A.
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, known professionally as M.I.A., is a British rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. Her music combines elements of alternative, dance, electronic, hip hop and world music with electronic instruments and samples.
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Born 18 July 1975 · Q204019
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2026· 15 entries
Public attention spiked: 7,818 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 1,927, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: This reads like she is known purely as "Maya" and also takes attention from her professional name. Changing styling still meets two guidelines in MOS:NICK.
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Published video “M.I.A CALLING THINGS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN”.
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Published video “SACRED HEART”.
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Published video “M.I.A. on Popcast #mi7 #popcast #nyt”.
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Published video “M.I.A. on POPCAST”.
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Public attention spiked: 7,043 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 1,927, with 0 article edits.
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Published video “🔈 777 SIGNED 7 INCHES 7 SONGS 7 TRUMPETS 7 RECORDS FOR THE 7 SEALS. M.I.7 #mi7 🔈”.
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The Guardian: Rapper Kid Cudi fires MIA from tour after ‘offensive’ Republican rant
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Published video “MONEY KEEP COMING TO ME. M.I.7 OUT NOW #music #fyp #newmusic #MI7”.
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Published video “⚪ ⚔️ SET ME FREE ⚪ ⚔️M.I.7 - M.I.A out now. #mi7 #newmusic”.
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Published video “TIME STARTS NOW. NEW M.I.A. ⚪🔴⚫🟢🟠🪩🌕 #mi7 #music”.
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Published video “HAVE YOU FOUND YOUR CALLING? I’LL SEE YOU THERE. 🦅🎶⚪”.
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Published video “MONEY KEEP COMING TO ME #mi7 #music”.
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Released album “M.I.7”.
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2024· 1 entry
Endorsed Donald Trump's US presidential campaign following the withdrawal of Robert F
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “BELLS COLLECTION”.
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2022· 4 entries
Released album “MATA”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - Beep (Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - The One”.
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Received an honorary award from University of the Arts London for outstanding contributions to the creative industries
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Rapper MIA urges Australian airlines to refuse forced deportations
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2017· 4 entries
Published video “MIAVEVO Live Stream”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - Finally”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - P.O.W.A”.
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Became a born-again Christian after seeing a vision of Jesus Christ
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2016· 6 entries
Published video “M.I.A. - Bring The Noize (Matangi Street Edition)”.
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Released album “AIM”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - Freedun (Audio) ft. ZAYN”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - Bird Song (Diplo Remix/Audio)”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - Bird Song (Blaqstarr Remix/Audio)”.
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Published video “M.I.A. - Go Off”.
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2015· 5 entries
“It's important for communities to be put together on a different basis. It's really shitty that we're taught to be really patriotic when 99 percent of the shit that we wear and we use and eat and everything comes from everywhere all the time, and musically, it's the same.”
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“Nobody wants to be dancing to political songs. Every bit of music out there that’s making it into the mainstream is really about nothing. I wanted to see if I could write songs about something important and make it sound like nothing. And it kind of worked.”
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“My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?”
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“Kala is about my mum and her struggle–how do you work, feed your children, nurture them and give them the power of information?”
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“OK, let's go and explore the rest of the world, and how easy is it to put together music through found objects and stuff, and people, and ideas and certain electricity, certain environments.”
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Matangi Tour (live at Primavera Fauna Festival)”.
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Released album “Matangi”.
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Released album “MATANGI Mix for Kenzo”.
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2012· 1 entry
Britain's Supreme Court denied an appeal by Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden to face these charges
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2011· 1 entry
Following her performance at the Roskilde Festival, she donated from the Roskilde Festival Charity Society to help bring justice to Tamil victims of war crimes and genocide and to aid advocacy and ensure legal rights for
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2010· 9 entries
Released album “Vicki Leekx”.
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Released ep “Sunshine (The Remix EP)”.
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Released album “MINDFVCK”.
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Released album “/\/\ /\ Y /\”.
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Condemned the Chinese government's role in supporting and supplying arms to the Sri Lankan government during the conflict in an interview with music magazine Mondomix, stating that China's influence within the United
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Praised the self-made "unpretentious, stuck together with Scotch tape" style that M
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That Arular was the seventh best reviewed album of 2005 and the ninth Best-Reviewed Electronic/Dance Album on Metacritic of the 2000–09 decade
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That Kala was the tenth Best-Reviewed Electronic/Dance Album on the website of the 2000–09 decade, one position below her debut album Arular
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Expressed disappointment that WikiLeaks distributed their documents to other news publications—including The New York Times—to gain wider coverage, as she stated their "way of reporting" did not work
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2009· 2 entries
Supported the "Mercy Mission to Vanni" aid ship, destined to send civilian aid from Britain to Vanni and controversially blocked from reaching its destination
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Was cited in Time magazine's Time 100 as one of the world's most influential people for her global influence across many genres
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2008· 1 entry
Released ep “How Many Votes Fix Mix”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Kala”.
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Citing sexism and racist mechanisms as possible reasons for misattribution of some of her work in her career
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2006· 1 entry
Due to her politically charged lyrics led to her second album Kala being recorded in a variety of locations around the world
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2005· 5 entries
Released ep “Live Session EP (iTunes Exclusive)”.
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Released album “Arular”.
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“The only thing that I play in my car right now is Arular by a girl named M.I.A., the most innovative artist in years.”
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Saw this as a lack of authenticity and felt M
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And again in 2011 as being her favourite video experience and favourite video adaptation of a song of hers, in her words as of 2011, "If you watch only one of my videos, please try "Sunshowers", "Jimmy," "Born Free," and
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Piracy Funds Terrorism, Volume 1”.
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For Arular, which appears on the film's soundtrack
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2003· 2 entries
And the two were romantically involved for five years
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The independent label Showbiz Records pressed 500 vinyl singles of "Galang", a mix of dancehall, electro, jungle, and world music, with Seattle Weekly praising its a cappella coda as a "lift-up-and-over moment" evoking "
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2001· 1 entry
To film a documentary on Tamil youth, but was unable to complete the project because she encountered harassment
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2000· 1 entry
Graduated from London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with a degree in fine art, film and video
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1990· 1 entry
And worked as a seamstress for the Royal Family for much of her career
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1986· 1 entry
Returned with her mother and siblings to London, where they were housed as refugees
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1975· 1 entry
Born 1975-07-18.
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