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After M.I.A. Queen Elizabeth received last Saturday the award Member of the British Empire awarded by Queen Elizabeth. The rapper explained how this honor was a reminder of his mother's hard work and the "refugee survival story" of his family.
Each year, the Queen, who is born in April but celebrates her birthday in June with the annual Trooping the Color Party and other festivities – showcases exceptional talents who make a significant contribution to art, sport, commerce and to others across the UK with its list of birthday honors. This year's group includes The favourite star Olivia Colman, nature lover, Bear Grylls, troubadour Elvis Costello and M.I.A., who received his M.B.E. for her "music services".
The award has a strong personal bond for MA, her mother, Kala, being one of two women who "hand-sewed these medals in the last 30 years". In an Instagram post, M.I.A. told how his mother – who had been granted asylum in the United Kingdom in 1986 after leaving Sri Lanka, then caught up in the civil war, with her young children – had found a job in sewing these honors "because it was the only non-English speaking manual work she could find. "
"She spent her life in England hand sewing thousands of medals for the queen," she writes. "No matter what I feel or think, my mother was extremely proud of her work.It's a very unique situation for me where I have to honor her work at the most prestigious minimum wage of all time."
Read the reaction of M.I.A. about him, M.B.E. in full below.
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