M.I.A. LOST HER MUSICAL IDOL IN JACKSON
M.I.A. was hit hard by the sudden death of MICHAEL JACKSON, because his music was all she had access to growing up in Sri Lanka.
The Paper Planes hitmaker reveals she was raised on just the King of Pop’s hits until her family moved to the U.K. in her early teens.
M.I.A. tells Spinner.com, "He’s the only music that we had in Sri Lanka in terms of Western music. For my generation, anyway. The only tapes that made it to Sri Lanka were Michael Jackson. That was it. That was all we had. The whole village listened to Michael Jackson, they made bootleg tapes, tape to tape, for each other, and that’s kinda all we had."
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