mika

By now it is clear that Mika is not as other artists are. His surname could just as well be ‘Singular’. Enveloped in an imaginative musical world of his own creation, he is one of the few British male pop stars of his age that doesn’t run with the pack. Classically trained, racially mixed and prone to theatrical physical gesture, he has become a scion of ambitiously delivered self-expression. He says his music can be condensed easily, ‘the basic principals are that it is joyful and empowering and doesn’t cowtow to fashion or convention,’ calling to mind an old and almost forgotten pop notion: individuality.

Mika opened his pop career with the defining single Grace Kelly. It has sold almost 3million copies worldwide and was only the second British single to top the chart on downloads alone. His total single sales from Life In Cartoon Motion add up beyond six million. The album itself bagged over 5million till receipts. Mika was nominated for and won awards from the Brits, the Grammys, the Ivor Novellos, Capital Radio, Q magazine, The World Music Awards, BT and Vodaphone, Virgin Media and MTV’s Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan, amongst others. But the statistics only hint at the strident grip he boldly took on pop music when he entered its fray; they are the neat vindication that one of pop’s biggest outsiders could conquer from within.

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Last Updated (Tuesday, 09 November 2010 17:48)

 
about 1 day ago @MRSSLEAZE it is so good to see your name again btw! x
about 1 day ago @MRSSLEAZE indeed ;)
about 1 day ago now back in studio working on Make You Happy. its dreamy, think Royksopp meets Bjork meets Kings of Convenience and MJ...
about 1 day ago good day, got locked out of my house today. I had to get a lawyer to prove that I was allowed a key and explain how I lost 5 sets already...
about 1 day ago Bollocks it's actually called 'Whatever Works', apparently ;)
about 1 day ago Am now watching Woody Allen movie 'Whatever it takes' i LOVE it. It's so funny & just absurd enough. Can't believe I hadn't seen it!
about 1 day ago Yo! Avoided the studio today and worked from home. Planning some pretty big exciting colabs/shows for the end of the year & next feb...
about 3 days ago @danzi94 this summer I HOPE
about 3 days ago Going home from studio and tomorrow is a day off. Simply Red 'Pleasure at the fair ground' song is playing in cab. It sounds so bizarre
about 4 days ago @ayana6262 oui beaucoup trop
about 4 days ago Still in studio. I thought we were wednesday. I swore it.
about 5 days ago @LinaABC oh dear. Good luck x
about 5 days ago @KershiaLou ha!
about 5 days ago Flipping between Question time (which is kinda good tonight) and Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. They go surprisingly well together!
about 5 days ago Home after a day of vocals in the studio watching tv and drinking red wine
about 7 days ago Horrific fire in Honduras jail, is shockingly sad. 272 dead with people dying in their locked cells unable to escape and weren't being freed
about 7 days ago lyric from what we're woking on today; 'Your love is air, I breath it in around me, don't know its there but without it I'm drowning.'
about 7 days ago And of course Nick Littlemore http://t.co/TfHtPpcP
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