Detail: MIKA is bringing the greatest show on earth to Ireland and the UK next year! Mika will be bringing ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much’ to theatres all across the UK in February and March next year! He will play a very special intimate show at the Olympia on February 15th 2010! Tickets are on sale now through ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide! He was forced to cancel his Olympia show on February 16th due to his commitment to the Brit Awards 2010. Further information on www.mcd.ie
Mika wants to set the bar for fantastical, 3 dimensional pop at his own height. Which is over 6' and statuesquely sculptured, since you ask. Welcome to his world. Mika is a songwriter, performer, producer and orchestrator.
Born in Beirut in the middle of the 80s, Mika's family soon found themselves having to move to Paris at the height of the war. When his father was subsequently taken hostage and held at the American embassy in Kuwait the family eventually settled in London. This is when music really became important. "It got me back on my feet." Saya Mika.
A self-taught piano virtuoso, gymnastic vocalist and born entertainer, Mika has music in his bones and at a prodigiously young age he was ready to show out and let go. At 19 he left home to study for an academic degree at The London School of Economics before quitting and enrolling at The Royal College of Music two weeks later.
An obsessive songwriter as a student, he would gate-crash parties and take to pianos to deliver 5 song sets, unannounced. One such occasion led to an early development deal, which he now sees as essential to his progress as an artist, but at the time saw as little short of spirit-crushing. In the midsts of desperation, he wrote his breakthrough hit "Grace Kelly which became a benchmark and signpost for where he wanted to go with his debut album ‘Life In Cartoon Motion' ..."You can't be afraid to stand out. If no one was going to take a punt on it, then so be it. I would do it myself."
Personal care and attention. Making sure everything is sitting in the right place. These are the watchwords at Mika's heart. His artwork, developed with his older sister Yasmine, is the first key that unlocks his work - And the music will do all the talking.