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...drummer uses sticks!) but vocal minimalism remains her strength, so she whispers along with her acoustic guitar, barely singing songs about being in Montmartre when she wants to be in Manhattan. She's precious but hypnotic, too. M.I.A. Arular The child of a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel leader, Maya Arulpragasam moved to London at age 12 and discovered hip-hop. Now 28, she has produced a mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely her own. She's not so eloquent in her anger as Public Enemy or so tuneful...
...child of a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel leader, Maya Arulpragasam moved to London at age 12 and discovered hip-hop. Now 28, she has produced a mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely her own. She's not so eloquent in her anger as Public Enemy or so tuneful as the Clash, but it's a pretty impressive neighborhood for a debut...
...those of you who haven’t been tuning in, the 27-year-old Arulpragasam comes with a bio that a press-release scribe would kill for. She fled her native Sri Lanka at 11, a refugee from that small island’s brutal civil war, which her estranged father helped wage as a leading militant...
London-based Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) draws on reggae and bhangra in a new globe-trekking CD, Arular, that's a world beater...
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