If rap is the sound of the street, Maya Arulpragasam's mongrel flow is the music of bombed neighborhoods. The 28-year-old Sri Lankan MC, who performs as M.I.A., is the daughter of a Tamil freedom fighter. She spent her childhood in hiding and fled her country's civil war at age 11. She endured a rough adolescence in a notoriously racist South ... (Full article: 1139 words)
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