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[CNN]
Producer, DJ, singer, fashion designer. Sri Lankan (sick & sucks) pop star M.I.A. has global influence across many genres. That put her on this year's TIME 100

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1894780_1894784,00.html

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[Time]
M.I.A.
By Spike Jonze

42 out of 105

It's funny to think of M.I.A. as influential, because I don't think she ever set out to be influential. The great thing about her is that she doesn't have some global plan. She just has things she cares about and is interested in, from all over the world. She hears huge beats from Angola. She finds a DJ doing amazing stuff in Baltimore. She hears about Aboriginal kids rapping in Australia and thinks nothing of getting on a plane to convince them to do a verse on her song. She reacts to whatever's in front of her: "Those are booming Indian drums," "That is a dope producer," "Those kids are making sick beats."

And she has great taste. Anyone can hear all this stuff, but to be able to curate it, you have to have taste, and Maya Arulpragasam, 33, has it.

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