M.I.A.

Biography

The British singer Mathangi Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., was born in London in 1975. Her family moved to Sri-Lanka when she was six months, because of the difficult political situation there. M.I.A.’s father was a political activist; thereby he did not have an opportunity to see his family very often. Later the whole family moved to India, and after that M.I.A., her mother, brother and sister came back to London in 1986. The singer graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where she studied the art in all the possible variants. That kind of education helped her to realize what she would like to do in the future.

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