'MATANGI/ MAYA/ M.I.A.' is a new documentary about musician and activist M.I.A. She joins NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro to talk about the film and... 'It Never Existed Before': M.I.A. On Changing Pop And ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. If Maya Arulpragasam were a character in a ...

Postcolonialist scholars, rejoice! Especially those who love a good beat, because the second album by the Sri Lankan Maya Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A. — who has also lived in London, India and now, ...

M.I.A., a British rapper best known for her 2007 hit “Paper Planes,” was listed as one of Time magazine’s Top 100 most influential people in 2009. Born in London as Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam and of ...

It's easy to get caught up in the rebel chic glamour of Maya Arulpragasam's story: She was born in London to Sri Lankan parents, moved to Sri Lanka as an infant, where, thanks to her father's militant ...

Merry Christmas from Maya Arulpragasam. Your gift: a new free M.I.A. mixtape called Bells Collection, streaming exclusively at her OHMNI website. The timing is intentional: M.I.A. converted to ...

From the opening salvo of "Bamboo Banga" Maya Arulpragasam's charisma and energy was apparent, even if the roaring thunder of her wide-ranging, encyclopedic and potentially seizure-inducing sound ...