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Will Santogold Be the Next M.I.A.? Vulture Handicaps the Race
Published 4/28/2008 at Vulture
... Exciting, easily parrotable backstory? Sort of. Twenty-year-old Anna-Catherine Hartley was born in Miami but moved to Hong Kong when she was 4. During a sailing trip, her family's boat was hit with a typhoon and sunk in the Philippine Sea. (She lived.) At 15, she relocated to Paris, started dating a D.J., and set up a MySpace page. A deal with Ed Banger Records followed soon after. Hey, it's not life on the run from the Sri Lankan army, but it should still make for some easy magazine feature writing. ...

Will Santogold Be the Next M.I.A.? Vulture Handicaps the Race
Published 4/28/2008 at OH NO!!
... Exciting, easily parrotable backstory? Sort of. Twenty-year-old Anna-Catherine Hartley was born in Miami but moved to Hong Kong when she was 4. During a sailing trip, her family's boat was hit with a typhoon and sunk in the Philippine Sea. (She lived.) At 15, she relocated to Paris, started dating a D.J., and set up a MySpace page. A deal with Ed Banger Records followed soon after. Hey, it's not life on the run from the Sri Lankan army, but it should still make for some easy magazine feature writing. ...