In Great Britain lives about 120 thousand of tamils, natives of Sri Lanka. One of the most well-known representatives of national minority òàìèëî⠖ hip-hoppersha MIA, the vocalist, the composer, the poet, producer, the artist, the designer, a script writer and the director. And also the owner of many other advantages and achievements, for example, the author of the best album of year under the version of the American magazine “Rolling Stone” and one of the most interesting persons of 2007 under the version of the most popular American newspaper “USA Today”. It if is very short. And details of its 30-year-old biography will suffice on weighty and fascinating volume.

Adventures M.I.A begin already with a name. Officially her name is Mathangi Arulpragasam. For the it Maja (Maya), for strangers – M.I.A is simple. Or MIA. She was born on July, 17th, 1978 in London, but at six-monthly age together with a family it has appeared in Sri Lanka, in the homeland of the father and mother. Arul Pragasam, the head of family, supported tamil s the separatists struggling up in arms for creation independent tamil state. It became the political active worker known for Arular under a name, and has based student's revolutionary organization The Eealm Revolutionary Organisation of Students.

Authorities haven'ted it, and Arularu was necessary to disappear many years from national army of Sri Lanka. Maja, her elder sister of Cali (Kali) and younger brother Sugu seldom saw the father. They couldn't remain long on one place at all, wandering on the country.
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