Baby not MIA
M.I.A. gave birth to a boy last Wednesday in an undisclosed location, according to a press release posted on her MySpace page this weekend. She performed Sunday, 8 days ago that is, at the annual Grammy Awards show, and it has been reported that she was experiencing labor pains at the time, though others reported that she started going into labor just after the show. In any event, she had claimed at the time that she was feeling the baby “get his swagga on” while she was performing. M.I.A, 31, is actually named Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam and was raised in Sri Lanka where her father agitated for a free and independent Tamil state. The father of her new child is the Canadian singer Benjamin Brewer. The baby’s not yet been named in the press but congrats to the family!
