fire on any ship that entered its waters, and M.I.A. was singled out on the Sri Lankan army's official website after the singer announced her support for the campaign. In 2011, following her performance at the Roskilde Festival, she donated from the Roskilde Festival Charity Society to help bring justice to Tamil victims of war crimes and genocide and to aid advocacy and ensure legal rights for refugees and witnesses. Personal life M.I.A. met DJ Diplo at the Fabric Club in London, in 2003, and the two were romantically involved for five years. From 2006 to 2008, M.I.A. lived in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York, where she met Benjamin Bronfman, an American scion of the Bronfman business family and the Lehman banking family who founded Lehman Brothers. They became engaged and she gave birth to their son, Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman, on 13 February 2009, three days after performing at the Grammy Awards. In February 2012, it was announced that she and Bronfman had separated. M.I.A. was raised by her parents as a Hindu. However, in a 2022 interview she revealed that in 2017 she became a born-again Christian because she saw a vision of Jesus Christ. Discography Arular (2005) Kala (2007) Maya (2010) Matangi (2013) AIM (2016) Mata (2022) Tours Arular Tour (2005) Kala Tour (2007) People vs. Money Tour (2008) Maya Tour (2010) Matangi Tour (2013–2014) AIM Tour (2017–2018) Honours, awards and nominations M.I.A. is the only artist to receive nominations for all five of Academy Award, Grammy Award, Brit Award, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize, and the first artist of Sri Lankan-British descent to be nominated for an Academy and Grammy Award in the same year. She has also been nominated for an MOBO Award, MTV Video Music Award, and MTV Europe Music Award. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for her services to music. She accepted the title (bestowed on British citizens in recognition of their service to the arts) in honor of her mother who had “spent her life in England hand sewing thousands of medals for the Queen”. In 2022, she received an honorary award from University of the Arts London for outstanding contributions to the creative industries. References Sources and further reading Arulpragasam, Maya (2002). M.I.A. No. 10 (Paperback ed.). Pocko Editions. External links M.I.A. discography at MusicTea N.E.E.T.