![]() In fact, most of her songs and music videos are drenched with her support of the Tamils’ struggle. does not shy away from her Sri Lankan and Tamil roots in her music. The LTTE would gain worldwide notoriety as the innovators of suicide bombing vests.īorn Mathangi Arulpragasam, M.I.A. Her father, Arul Pragasam, founded the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students (EROS), a political Tamil group affiliated with - and later absorbed by - the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1990 during the civil war in Sri Lanka. (2007’s “Paper Planes”), who fills many of her songs with references to the violent conflict in Sri Lanka. Case in point, Grammy-nominated one-hit wonder rapper M.I.A. Artistic inspiration, such as it is, can come from the most unexpected of places.
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