Eyebrows were raised by a recent New York Times interview that portrayed Maya “MIA” Agulprasam as the epitome of shallow radical chic, talking about being a terrorist while munching truffle ...

Before becoming a world conquering artist, MIA was Mathangi Arulpragasam, Maya to friends. Raised in Sri Lanka, Maya's mother sought refuge in London after living under an oppressive regime.

M.I.A. has a lot of problems with this new doc about her, but the things she doesn't like about it are the things that make it so valuable. From the moment it first screened at this year’s ...

Despite early reviews of the film being positive, a recent sit down with Billboard finds MIA uncertain about the new documentary that covers her life, now showing at the Sundance Film Festival.

Even the title advertises the many sides of this performer: Matangi/Maya/MIA. Three names by which the performer is known, each a different variant on how she has defined herself. Matangi evokes her ...

As it turns out, the tune is one of the weaker ones on the album. But on the whole, MIA has taken her music one step further. Her use of instruments that belong to the Indian subcontinent is ...

M.I.A., the British-born rapper-pop star of Tamil extraction, gets the full biodoc treatment in 'Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.,’ a collage-film by Steve Loveridge. By Leslie ...

Maya Arulpragasam a.k.a. M.I.A. Photo: Abramorama In applying a light touch on this point where the singer more often pushes too hard, on the twin parochialism of right- and left-wing America, the ...

But if “Maya” isn’t the best of Mia Hansen-Løve’s films, there’s a wayward urgency to the whole thing that makes it feel like it might have been a necessary one for her to make.

As a trailblazing British-Sri Lankan rapper and pop star, Maya Arulpragasam, known as MIA, has been agitating for change since the beginning of her career. Unrelenting in her desire to draw attention ...