Mika

...Why don’t you
like me? Why
don’t you like me?...

Introducing the man who sang the orbit chewing gum jingle (for which he got paid £45)

With the weight of Music industry hype weighing heavy on his shoulders Mika is destined to be the voice of 2007.
A songwriter, performer, producer and orchestrator, this self-taught piano virtuoso with a staggering four-octave range just has to be heard. Straddling a line somewhere between the Scissor Sisters, and Freddie Mercury, his intimate first person and third person storytelling is the freshest sound around.

Mika grew up in Beirut in the middle of a war, his father was taken hostage and held at the American embassy in Kuwait, forcing a move to Paris and then finally to London. It was here, with the help of a “terrifying” Russian music teacher, that he found his musical desire, catapulted onto the stage of a Richard Strauss opera at only 11 years old. At 19 he nearly abandoned music leaving home to study for an academic degree at The London School of Economics. He quit on the afternoon of the first day and enrolled at The Royal College of Music two weeks later.

A welcomed, and retrospectively essential, early record deal saw him pitted against the music industry: “The bosses would try and twist me into a direction that went totally against my nature. Basically, they wanted me to follow whatever was popular at the time. And at the time what was popular was Craig David, so my depression was pretty deep.”

Mika’s myspace site has generated an incredible 650,000 plays in less than 6 months, he has been named the best new talent in the BBC's Sound of 2007 music poll, and to top it all download single ‘Grace Kelly’ has gone straight in at Number One on the iTunes singles chart.

‘he is going to be a huge star’ - Rob Da Bank

‘he’s pops new saviour’ – i-D magazine

‘a glorious new pop star’ - Observer Music Monthly

‘jaw on the floor performance’ - NME

To hear some Mika simply turn on your radio or visit the websites listed below:

www.mikasounds.com
www.myspace.com/mikamyspace

Single ‘Grace Kelly is physically released on Jan 29, the album ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’ follows on Feb 5.

Mika embarks on a nationwide tour in February and will play a sold out show at KoKo in London on Feb 22.

MP3: Mika - Lollipop

MP3: Mika - Grace Kelly (Pull Tiger Tail Remix)