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29. EPs. 2. Singles. 40. Mixtapes. 3. British rapper and singer M.I.A. has released six studio albums, two extended plays, three mixtapes, forty singles (including eight as a featured artist) and twenty-nine music videos. Born Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, M.I.A. began her career as a visual artist and film-maker, and moved into making music ...
Life and career 1975–1999: Early life Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam was born on 18 July 1975, in Hounslow, London, the daughter of Arul Pragasam, a Sri Lankan Tamil engineer, writer, and activist, and his wife, Kala, a seamstress. Her first name is derived from the Hindu goddess, Matangi. When she was six months old, her family moved to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, where her brother Sugu was ...
Kala is the second studio album by British hip hop artist M.I.A. It was released on 8 August 2007 by XL Recordings. M.I.A. named the album after her mother and said her mother's struggles in life are a major theme of the recording. It was mainly written and produced by M.I.A. and Switch, and features contributions from Timbaland, Diplo, Afrikan ...
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On the other hand, a longing for the "old folks at home" has sometimes been interpreted, for example, by W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), as a longing for the people and traditions of Africa, where most of the human beings enslaved in the New World had been free before they were kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean.
Boyz (M.I.A. song) " Boyz " is a song recorded by artist M.I.A. for her second album Kala (2007). The song was written and produced by Maya "M.I.A." Arulpragasam and Dave "Switch" Taylor and composed in recording sessions held in several countries.
Folk. Songwriter (s) Traditional. " There Is a Tavern in the Town " is a traditional folk song, which first appeared in the 1883 edition of William H. Hill's Student Songs. [1] The song was the college anthem of Trinity University College. [citation needed] It was performed by Rudy Vallée as "The Drunkard Song", slightly changing the chorus.
Neapolitan. " Santa Lucia " ( Italian: [ˈsanta luˈtʃiːa], Neapolitan: [ˈsandə luˈʃiːə]) is a traditional Neapolitan song. It was translated by Teodoro Cottrau (1827–1879) into Italian and published by the Cottrau firm, as a barcarola, in Naples in 1849. Cottrau translated it from Neapolitan into Italian during the first stage of the ...