M.I.A nominated ‘ Record of the Year’

M.I.A

M.I.A

Hounslow born Rapper M.I.A. also known as Mathangi Arulpragasam has been nominated for the record-of-the year award at the next year’s Grammies for her track Paper Planes.  Trophies will be handed out on February 8the 2009.

 

Maya spent the early years of her life in a number of places. She moved from London to her parents’ native country Sri Lanka at the age of six months, only to relocate to Chenai. During a next stay in Sri Lanka, the civil war in the country escalated to the point where she began to lose family members and friends.

Her life stabilized once she and the rest of her family were able to make it back to London.

The star is due to give birth in February with the baby of indie rocker Benjamin Brewer. Although the pair have not been told by a doctor the sex of the child they have had some hints from an unlikely source. British pop singer M.I.A says she is convinced her baby will be born a boy because she has so much ‘male energy inside her.

M.I.A did cancel her summer tour and announced her “retirement” while performing at Manchester, Tenn.’s Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 13. It was around this time that “Paper Planes” exploded on the strength of its placement in the trailer for the Seth Rogen stoner comedy Pineapple Express (Columbia).

The song took hold in rap circles, and remixes by Jim Jones, Rick Ross, Freeway, and 50 Cent soon appeared. Then Kanye sampled her voice for the chorus of the colossal posse cut “Swagga Like Us.” So it was official: M.I.A. was finally rap-certified.

Looks like that sabbatical was more like a maternity leave then.

Posted by Tash on Jan 25th, 2008 and filed under Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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