Mia Paper Biography

Better known as M. was born on July 18. British singer of Tamil descent, producer, artist and designer. Matkhangs “Maia” Arulpragasam, who became widely known as M. Obviously, the place of her birth is Sri Lanka. She herself said that she got to England only at 11 years old. Her father is the Tamil partisan, who left his family for the sake of a political struggle, when M. her brother also fights with the partisans from the tigers of the liberation of Tamil-Ilam, he was in prison, once she said that "my brother left prison at the age of 16." In an interview with M.

The first ten years of my life I lived like mathanges. When we just arrived in England in M, I had a terrible first week at school: I raised my hand in the lessons to answer, but no one asked me simply because I could not pronounce the name. My aunt advised me to come up with a different name. She then returned from the ski resort, her instructor was called Maya, and I thought - hmm, the cool version in India Matkhangi calls the goddess of music.

"In M she conducted the first exhibition of her own graphic works on the themes of the Tamil’s liberation movement. Maya occupies an active social position and makes statements on pressing political issues. My mother sewed clothes, and already then did a million things, just to make ends meet. For example, she woven pigtails to earn ten pence on lunch. But whatever I do, I did it with maximum return and imagination and never chased the labels.

The only meaning to hang a shortcut on yourself - to monetize my business, but I do not have such a goal. My music is above all this - I can write a song and millions will hear it at the same time. And if you fly braids, then you can braid the hair of only one person, ”she said.

In the year, the singles M. In the wake of success M. And then I even borrowed a computer with my friends - I didn’t have my own. When I was engaged in art, I didn’t have the means to show my paintings, and I couldn’t stand it even at the level of the idea. That's a completely different matter with music: that's all that is my head. On the shoulders is my voice. She named her first album in honor of her father: "Thus I wanted to find him." The second is Kala - in honor of my mother, "a person from whom I received all my talents and who taught me to survive in this world." The clip for the song “Born Free” was officially prohibited by the administration of the VVO Internet channel, as it contains scenes of violence, bullying and killing a group of red-haired teenagers with the American military.

The singer represented Asian continental music at the youth world football championship of the year. In the year, M. The composition “Paper Planes” was used as a soundtrack for the films “Pineapple Express”, “End of the World Apocalypse in Hollywood”, “Millionaire from the slum” and the game Far Cry 3 Introductory video. The growth of M. with GO I met with the American DJ and producer Diplo.

In the same year, the couple had a son Aikid.