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Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, and producer of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Starting her career as a visual artist, she got into documentary filmmaking and fashion designing before she started a career in music. Famous for her compositions that combine elements of dance, alternative, hip-hop, and world music, she has 49 award nominations to her credit so far. M.I.A is the first artist in history to be nominated for the five major awards—Academy, Grammy, Brit, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize—and also the first artist of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy and Grammy in the same year. While her early works relied heavily on the Roland MC sequencer and drum machine, her later compositions featured rare instruments, electronics, and sounds from around the world. Her opinion and comments on the oppression of Sri Lankan Tamils, African Americans and Palestinians has drawn praise as well as criticism, leading to the US restricting her entry into the country. Her albums also reveal her strong political ideologies. She supports a number of charities and raises funds to help youth come out of violence and poverty in war-torn Africa. In Liberia, she supported school-building projects, and rehabilitation of f

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Mathangi Ajithkumar was born on 8 May to a Malayali Nair Family in Palakkad, Kerala. She is an Indian Playback Singer. She is the daughter of Ajithkumar & Rajani Ajithkumar. Mathangi is currently pursuing her Post Graduation in MA English Language & Literature at Yuvakshetra Institute of Management Studies,Palakkad.

Mathangi Ajithkumar has sung in 24 movies including 18 Tamil movies, 5 Malayalam movies & 1 Kannada movie. In Tamil movies, she has sung songs with Sri. K J Yesudas, P Jayachandran, Sri. Vijay Yesudas & in Malayalam movies with Sri. K J Yesudas, Sri. P Jayachandran, Sri. Unnimenon & Sri. Biju Narayanan.

First breakthrough in her Musical Career was by the introduction by Mellisai Mannar Sri. M S Viswanathan at Kamaraj Hall Chennai, when she was only 6 years old. She has done live concerts with the legendary music director, Sri. M.S Viswanathan, and with playback singers, Sri. SPB Charan, Sri. Yugendran Vasudevan, Sri. TMS Selvakumar, Menon, Kumar, Sri. Najeem Arshad, Sri. Nikhil Mathew, Sri. Pradeep Pallurithy, Sri. Nishad, p Somasundaram etc. at various prestigious halls across South India.

Her first playback singing was with Sri. Vijay Yesudas for the Tamil movie titled "Ennai Vendravale " song composed by late Ravi J Menon &