Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There’s two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That’s where I’m from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England. — M.I.A.

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Mini who’s who:

M.I.A. : British Musician
Born: July 18, 1975