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  1. Episode 14 April 11, 2015

     

    Clips of #Team MIKA

     

     

    David ≪ Close To Me ≫ The Cure

     

    [YOUTUBE]i7FmqpmTs04[/YOUTUBE]

     

    Hiba ≪ Amoureuse ≫ Veronique Sanson

     

    [YOUTUBE]auCQQY-hGvk[/YOUTUBE]

     

     

    Yann’Sine ≪ Impossible ≫ James Arthur

     

    [YOUTUBE]zr0u5HIw4dg[/YOUTUBE]

     

     

    Thks so much Ériko for sharing it:mikacool:
  2. I'm reading Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) , yes I love those loooong philosophic books. By the way, I wonder how much time Mika needed to read it. I'm almost a half year with it!!

    Thks for remenbered me.I´m finished The FountainHead (Ayn Ryand)

    i think Mika know too i saw a poltrait of the Book with a Woman in a Car. It´s very philosofical but i´m think very materialis too. the fe in autoestim and the suceed for the human man.

    I think is a maneatter or manipulater women Dominique Franco and the novell is around her.

    i can any pharagraph her.

    "They say sound never dies, but travels on in space--what happens to a man's heartbeats?--so many of them in fifty-six years--could they be gathered again, in some sort of condenser, and put to use once more?”

    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

    “Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing.”

     

    ....“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”

    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

    i´m going to read Kill a mocking-bird of Harper Lee a novell of Alabama life i think so...:mikalove:

  3. Thks MIra Gondin for load it this section 13 minutes of Acess Illimité. I like the french of hand´s Mikas voices. So i like so much i like all his song the mellancholic "Last Party" with his relax end and full of sense about his speech of Fredie Mercury , and take the strive for his rythm of the last Party. I like so much Talk about you with the new mix. and the "all she wants" rythm too but i think is conservative in his lyrics & rythm respect about Th men who knew so much...It´s not bad ...It´s the song of a the girl teenager than like the clasic and the respect social.

    i don´t make apologizes or be a "black mail. i think so."

    This video i like the imagination of a boy

    Jean-Philippe Dion: So here this your school playground.

    Mika: Yes, but it was my own playground even before I went to this school. It was shared between school and my family. I had rabbits there , in a cage right in front of the school. So there were all those little kids at school who were looking at me and they kept wondering what I was doing there and why they were working at school when I was not doing anything. They said "he's playing with rabbits every day".And finally the school headmaster came to talk to my mother and he said, we have a problem, your son is always playing in the garden, can we do something about it now, because we have a problem. And they took me as a pupil in that school.

    Jean-Philippe Dion: Were you a good student?

     

    .:dog:I KIKE THE PART WITH MELACHIE AND HIS OLD PRIMARY SCHOOL. I´M LEARNING FRENCH TOO.

    AND I WOULD LIKE TALK ABOUT ANY FRENCH SONG TOO.:france:

    & Nightmare too.vids. and century man

    [YOUTUBE]e0Ow5rbBXh4[/YOUTUBE]

    Transltation a Mikafreak thaks so much:

    http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4078063&postcount=45

    Very pretty your sister JASmine.

  4. I'm going to see him tonight in Barcelona :blush-anim-cl: For what ppl told me the show is amazing. Robbie is a showman.

     

    ♚RobbieWilliams.MBE♚ @rw_mbe

    #LMEY2015countdown ⏳ QT @lozzieloub: Counting down the days to Barcelona!!! @robbiewilliams

     

     

    ♚RobbieWilliams.MBE♚ @rw_mbe · Mar 11

    @Mikasister @lozzieloub You'll be blown away! No doubt

     

    :naughty:

    Thks MIKASISTER for post

    UNDER THE RADAR.

    I envy you very much. a kiss from afar for. my consideration for visiting. Enjoy it to the fullest love their new album especially greenlight official video with lyrics much more than a melodic song or song teenager his music inspires my teenage years d ela teen movie with such romantic music and her ass in the air jumping it's amazing and beautiful not for her nakedness but the current reality of selfies we are living and your disk is marvelous. Also the latest dance music Salon surprised me tradicionao modern and gentlemanly can become.

    I meant the music of National treasure "" is great two great artistic works as musically.

    CONGRATULATIOS.

  5. Thks Eriko

    List of OFFICIAL The Voice videos

     

    PART Ⅱ

     

    Episode 8 ~

    [ Battles ]

    15862927519_7bc0884ac9_b.jpg

     

    PART Ⅰ

    Episode 1 ~ 7

    [ Blind Auditions ]

    http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4062369&postcount=303

     

     

     

    "Come Together" :Update:

     

     

    25 février 2015

    Les coachs reprennent "Come Together" pour le lancement des Battles

    VK http://vk.com/video232312753_171158721

     

     

     

     

    Episode 8 28 February 2015 :Update:

     

     

     

    25 février 2015

    Julien Doré, coach de luxe pour Law et Quentin Bruno

    VK https://vk.com/video232312753_171158720

     

     

    27 février 2015

    Place aux Battles, samedi à 20h55 sur TF1 !

    VK http://vk.com/video232312753_171160327

     

     

    27 février 2015

    "Mourriez-vous de ne pas chanter ?" : Fanny Ardant, coach de l'équipe Mika

    VK https://vk.com/video232312753_171160555

    :uk: translation http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4068909&postcount=619 by crazyaboutmika

     

     

     

    28 février 2015

    Clips of Battle

    http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4069246&postcount=631

     

    Pas Voice

    VK https://vk.com/video232312753_171162401

     

    La Suite

    https://vk.com/video232312753_171162945

     

     

    Prime & La Suite

    by MikaFrance

    http://www.mikafrance.com/news-1067-the-voice-integrale-8-eme-episode-battles.html

    by Mikawebsite[.Com!]

    http://www.mikawebsite.com/video-the-voice-saison-4-prime-la-suite-n8/

     

     

    Coaching & Battles of Team MIKA

    http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4069731&postcount=650

     

     

     

     

    Episode 9 7 March 2015 :Update:

     

     

    Teaser Clips

     

    1 mars 2015

    Les Battles continuent samedi prochain !

    VK http://vk.com/video232312753_171164125

     

     

    2 mars 2015

    Samedi à 20h55, qui passera l'épreuve Battles ?

    VK http://vk.com/video232312753_171164124

     

     

    4 mars 2015

    Samedi à 20h55, les battles continuent...

    VK http://vk.com/video232312753_171166152

     

     

    5 mars 2015

    Samedi à 20h55, qui poursuivra l'aventure ?

    VK https://vk.com/video232312753_171167471

     

     

    EXCLU ! La battle entre Elvya vs Giuliana ! Qui restera dans l’aventure samedi ?

    VK http://vk.com/video232312753_171167474

     

     

    Emotion et délicatesse, maîtres mots du coaching de Nög et Hiba

    VK https://vk.com/video232312753_171168296

     

     

    6 mars 2015

    Pour cette battle, Jenifer se "prend une claque"

    VK https://vk.com/video232312753_171169608

     

     

    Replay

    Clips of Battles

    http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4070473&postcount=660

     

     

    Prime and La Suite

     

    http://www.mikawebsite.com/video-the-voice-saison-4-prime-la-suite-n9/ by MikaWebsite[.Com!]

     

     

    http://www.mikafrance.com/news-1068-the-voice-integrale-9-eme-episode.html by Mika France

     

     

    Clips of Coaching & Battle #TeamMIKA

    [HD] http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4070503&postcount=665

     

     

    La Suite : Mel & Mika

    [HD] http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4070506&postcount=667

    Translation http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4070554&postcount=1028 by crazyaboutmika :uk:

     

     

     

     

    to be continued ...

  6. I´M NOW LOOKING FOR A VIDEO OF YOUTUBE ,CAUSE OF COPYRIGHT HAS BEEN ELIMINATED OR ERASE CAN YOU HELP ME TO SEE IT??

    https://t.co/p56lTPmXFG

    attachment.php?attachmentid=10056&stc=1&d=1423592398

    RELATIVE TO L'intervista di ieri sera a #Mika è su youtube!!! grazie a chi ha caricato il video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddClr6GFHA

    Mika Montreal intervista del 08/02/2015

    I THINK I FOUND THIS ..

    http://www.mediafire.com/watch/3ca6iksu66f3sa2/Mika_-_Acc%C3%A8s_Illimit%C3%A9.mp4 THANSK mIKA aCCÉS iLLIMITE.

    yoUR HAND OUT PLS.attachment.php?attachmentid=10061&stc=1&d=1423676203

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  7. We would say "M'enverrez-vous des cartes postales si vous avez le temps?" futur simple+si+présent de l'indicatif which is less formal OR "Si vous aviez le temps, m'enverriez-vous des cartes postales?" Si+imparfait+conditionnel présent. The last one seems to fit your exercice.

     

     

    To sum up, to express a hypothesis or the conditional, we can use:

     

    *Si+ présent + futur.

     

    * si + imparfait + conditionnel présent.

     

    *Si + plus-que -parfait + conditionnel passé .

    Thks for you explication.

    http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/le_or_la_in_french.shtml and me too .

  8. For Lohttp://www.veoh.com/watch/v65373582642ZfzBaad this audio of mIka diccendo:

    ""es cosa molto importante for a artist that you no debe cambiare for the presion of Comapani record or DISCOGRAFICA " gRACIAS PORQUE TU DESDE UN PRINCIPIO DESDE ERA UN RAGGAZZO/I NON HA CAMBIATO YO TE ADORO MUCHIIIIIIISIMO...

    uN BESO.

    ¿hat's why the important thing about gk, or the purple artists video, was for me not the general moulding of artist. of ool . witty? I DON´T UNDERSTAND.

     

    Thks ERIKO for POs to reviw MARIE CLAIRE

    X Factor, un album appena uscito (Song Book Vol.1), un altro talent show in Francia: sarai mica stanco?

    (Annuisce) L’importante è mettercela tutta. Per questo sono esigente con me stesso e con i ragazzi che seguo nei talent. Chiunque ha il diritto di credere in un sogno. Chiunque dovrebbe fare buone esperienze, capire quale sia la propria strada.

     

    Chi ti ha illuminato su quale sarebbe stata la tua?

    Quando avevo 15 anni, ed ero sempre stanco perché già cantavo e intanto studiavo, mia madre mi disse: «Stai camminando per te stesso. Devi. Sei tu a creare le basi per il tuo lavoro. Basta lamentarsi!». In famiglia siamo 5 fratelli tutti cresciuti con l’arte. Due sorelle sono designer, mio fratello è architetto. Sono letteralmente ossessionato dal teatro, dal design, dalla musica...

     

    E dalla moda: ce ne vuole a riempire 15 valigie!

    In realtà non sono così amante del fashion, più dell’idea di design che c’è dietro. E spesso è la mia mamma che mi cura il look.

     

    Il momento della giornata in cui ti esprimi meglio?

    Quando dormo! (Ride) Indubbiamente il momento migliore di tutte le 24 ore.

  9. Ok, I'll try to translate.

     

    F: Mika! How nice to meet you. Please, take a seat. You are very tall!

    M: Yes, everybody says that to me

    F: 'cause we always see you sittig while judging at XF. Songbook vol. 1 only for Italy. It's colourful like you music, your sound

    M: yes, we did all this project in italy, here in milan, because I wanted to show my musical history since the beginning till now, this year so...

    F: amazing

    M: yes, and weird too. But, wait, while sitting, you are taller than me, this can't work

    F: wait (he gets his chair down)

    M: ah! thank you! I have to say that the man who had me to sign my contract for my label (? Compagnia discografica, Universal I suppose), when we started he was quite important, but now he's the ultimate boss of everything, during 7 years he did a transformation (but he told the word in a way which seemed another italian word: transumanza) so his chairs...

    F: a trasformazione.. you told transumazione

    M: yes, Rossana Casala always told me to say trasformazione

    F: transumazione.. transumanza... is nice, it's a difficult word, it means when the sheep are taken from the fields to the village. Who does know transumanza? Nobody! He's very talented. You know that this is a miracle? How do you speak italian like that?

    M: What I meant to tell before the italian lesson, anyway thank you so much, is that his chairs during 7 years are first like this and then every time I go and see him at the office, now that he's pretty important... (he stands up to show how much the man chairs are higher than before). And the table is like that (he shows with his hands).

    F: so now he's so important.... In italy something crazy happend

    M: yes, this year was one of the most beautiful in my life because it's as a new door openend and I found out a new culture which is not so different from my libanese culture. Yes, I did the choice to do XF because that was a challenge that scared me and still does a bit. I told, this is a bit crazy, I know, I can't speak italian, I said all that in english, I don't know why I'm doing this but who cares

    F: Bravo!!! (A kind of kudos) This is what I say every day to my self, this is the watchword to be happy. La leggerezza (someone please help me here!!!) is the most difficult conquest

    M: But I told no to others shows that are in languages I know

    F: yes, but that would be easy... so when did you start to learn italian?

    M: When? this is pretty important, I started to learn it a month and a half before the first castings

    F: wait, so what month that was?

    M: euhhhh.... we started in ..... (puzzled)

    F: june:

    M: yes, june and so.... I'm dyslexic, I can't count backwards

    F: ok, I'll tell you: in april

    M: april, thank you. We started in april and I have to thank my teacher, I wouldn't be able to do all this without her, she's sicilian, her name is isabella.

    F: Isabella, teach me

    M: for me, that was the time in the day when I am a monster, in the morning...

    F: monster? why?

    M: because I'm a kind of like that (now you see him curbing and getting a grumpy face)

    F: because you live by night

    M: yeah, always, we work by night

    F: you never go to bed early

    M: no, I can't.

    F: oh, sorry, didn't mean to offend you (ironic voice)

    M I get a bit hyperactive but during the morning I'm like the human involution, I start like a ... how do you say? a monkey

    F: what?

    M: a monkey

    F: una scimmia

    M: una scimmia but then I do all the human evolution, with a cup of coffee, within an hour, all the Darwin evolution and en up like this, to be me again.

    M: but little Isabella had to see me every morning, just a strong sicilian like her could..

    F: you had a russian singing teacher as well

    M: yes, before, because I was kicked out of school.

    F: but you switched between so many schools, France, America (!!!!), that's not easy. So a russian singer teacher...

    M: I didn't go to schoolf for a year I didn't attend school, when I was 10 y.o. and she came shortlyfrom Russia, she was pretty soviet block like that. Very elegant and very strong.

    F: what did you learn form her?

    M: basically discipline. Between her and my libanese mom... I eventually preferred to go to school (lol)

    F: how do people learn to sing?

    M: how do you say with pain in italian?

    F: fatigue

    M with much fatigue (then he notices that's not what he meant, he knows how to translate in italian better than the showman....) No! Not fatigue ...

    Pain like ouch!

    F: yes, fatigue, hard work (meanwhile we in the audience were screaming paiiiinnnnnnn till he got it)

    F: dolore

    M: dolore! To me it is a completely negative meaning. I had to practise every single day, I used to do classical music, I had a skill to do a pretty difficult contemporary music (he gest the wrong accent on contemporanea and the showman repeats it, so people laugh, but not in a mean way. He's juste cute when he does it, even if he hates to be cute this way)

    F: before doing contemporanE'a music you sang in an opera, you was 11 y.o.

    M: that was a contemporary classical opera

    F: (to the audience) what do you laugh at, I wish I could see you .... (no one is being mean, though, just kidding)

    M: what I mean is that my music now is not a difficult contemporary one, But at that time, I had to sing in japanese or polish and I had to learn all that just using my ears for I can't read music sheets.

    F: do you read music now?

    M: no.

    F: so you just go by ear (someone help me here as well !!! bad translation, sorry), That's a gift you have

    M: no, to me the gift would be to be able to read music sheets.

    F: I saw you have a home in Milan

    M: yes, a flat

    F: so you think you will come back? Often?

    M: I'd like to. (it was just me or his voice there got a king of mischievious?)

    F: your home, I read on a magazine, has kitchen, two living rooms, bedroom, white piumati chandeliers

    M: piumati?

    F: yes, I don't know how to say that in english. With piume

    M: piume? (We, the audience: feathers! Then he gets it)

    F: a statue, optical rugs, paintings...

    M: what are you doing?

    F: I don't know, never been there, but I'm reading, animal embroided sheets ....

    M: this is not a renting commercial!!! Do you want to rent my flat?

    F: I read you put a lot of stuff over there. What do you buy?

    M: yes, a lot. For instance I have plenty of lebanese paintings, a lot from syria, since I love arabic contemporary art, and the stuff I do with with my sister. Drawings and sculptures. It's a workshop. My home is my workshop as well. That is not always comfy, still...

    F: listen , I want to ask you a thing. What is weird in italy? There's something about us that you do think is weird?

    M: mhhh. I don't know, but there's one beatiful thing in italy...

    F: oh. so there is ONE beautiful thing in italy.... (lol) No, I mean weird.

    M: I don't know... maybe.... risotto. It's not good. I don't like it. It's just raw rice withs ome sauce. But where is the meat? where is the chicken? A week ago I went to a very nice dinner...

    F: Where?

    M: I can't tell. At someone's place. I went and they were enthusiastic to eat. There was some salad, ok, that's fine, and after it came a dish with a not well cooked rice and sauce. And he wondered why all people were excited about that dinner and obsessed with risotto.

    F: risotto is typical for milano

    M: imo, I prefer south italy food.

    F: (introduce songbook, Mika make clear the it's-not-a-greatest-hits-since-I'm-not-done thing. )

     

    Now a bit of teasing about some italian words he mispoke in these past months, and now he manages to get them straight. Almost.

    Stupigia ..... Stupidaggine!

    Kudos!!!!!

    Hugs, kudos again for his energy and positivity.

    And medley for us !!!!

     

    This two hours translation is my apologize to Nina for not having been able to translate anything live. I'm sorry, but you noticed my spoken english is crappy.

     

    That evening, at the restaurant, the waitress proposed risotto to us.

    Guess what was our answer!!!!!!

    Thks all for Load and sharing it..:thumb_yello:

  10. Could someone please translate the lyrics for Michele's song La Vita E La Felicita? I understand only some parts :huh: Here's the lyrics:

     

     

    Domani non mi sentirai partire

    Amarti non è mica così strano

    Io ho un nome senza via

    Per distrarre la mia voglia di tornare

    Perché non sarai lì

    In questa casa che decise che ci sapevamo amare

    Con la vecchia foto dei miei genitori sull’altare

    Con la voglia di restare anche se non ti sai spiegare

    Cosa manca a questo amore

    E l’estate che non passerà

    Si troverà una soluzione

    La vita e la felicità

    Nessuna via

    Nessuna convinzione

    Qui mi troverai

    Qualunque volta vorrai rivedermi

    Qui a sognare se vorrai tornare

    Io rimango qua

    Perché sei così piccola che quasi

    Potrei tenerti dentro ad una mano

    Però sei anche un gigante

    E non ti accorgi che io sono sotto il suo passato

    E se mi mancherai

    Proverò a non affidarti alle foto in cui ridiamo

    Senza avere niente al mondo

    In fondo il mondo lo avevamo

    Resto ancora sveglio ad aspettarti che son quasi a casa

    Ho nuove storie da ascoltare

    E l’estate che non passerà

    Si troverà una soluzione

    La vita e la felicità

    Nessuna via

    Nessuna convinzione

    Qui mi troverai

    Qualunque volta vorrai rivedermi

    Qui a sognare se vorrai tornare

    Io rimango qua

    E non stupirti degli errori che è normale aver paura

    E ricorda che ci siamo stati sempre fino ad ora

    Se mi aspetterai ti aspetterò

    e vivremo ancora per poi dimenticare tutto il male in un

    Ciao amore

    Amore

    E l’estate che non passerà

    Si troverà una soluzione

    La vita e la felicità

    Nessuna via

    Nessuna convinzione

    Qui mi troverai

    Qualunque volta vorrai rivedermi

    Qui a sognare se vorrai tornare

    Io rimango qua

     

    E qui a sognare mi ritroverai

    sotto il tuo passato

    Thk you very much beatifull eyes you are...

    http://video.sky.it/xfactor/puntate/x_factor_2013_la_finale/p1905.pls

    [sky]x_factor_2013_la_finale[/sky]

     

    http://xfactor.sky.it/showvideo/181539/la-finale-lesibizione-a-cappella-di-michele/13-12-2013//?pag=1/

     

    [sky]181539[/sky]

     

    http://xfactor.sky.it/showvideo/181505/la-finale-il-commento-dei-giudici-sul-duetto-di-aba/12-12-2013//?pag=3/

     

    [sky]181505[/sky]

    http://xfactor.sky.it/showvideo/181507/la-finale-il-duetto-di-michele-e-giorgia/12-12-2013//?pag=3/

     

    [sky]181507[/sky]

     

    http://xfactor.sky.it/showvideo/181504/la-finale-il-duetto-di-aba-e-mario-biondi/12-12-2013//?pag=3/

     

    [sky]181504[/sky]

    Sorry but UNforgetable moments there are..http://www.deejay.it/eventi/x-factor-gaia-esce-a-meno-due-puntate-dalla-finale/360657/

  11. 47222 sms VOTE GOOD LUCK START WITH mJACKSON MUSIC

    :mikadas:http://www.coolstreaming.us/blog/diretta-tv/

    http://www.cloud-tivu.net/Blog/app-direct-tv-france/

    12 dic 13, 21:27

    Cool Stm: 01 APE ESCAPE / 02 VIOLETTA / 03 ABA / O4 mICHELE06

    ABA with Mario Biondi waaaau the voice both of them.... GUUUAAAU like tom Jones.BRavisiimo..The name the song a big Rare..stange."Close to you"

     

     

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    Chiara Gallana si è presenta alle Audizioni di X Factor con Sola, di Francesca Michielin. Ha stregato immediatamente i giudici con la sua voce potente, non

    'm watching here now:

    http://www.cloud-tivu.net/Blog/cielo....ifpHtlld.dpbs thks for all i lost MIka song??? attachment.php?attachmentid=9544&stc=1&d=1386933164

    Mika say dinnmi que no pasa a bellisima song 2ª manche start.

    12 dicembre 2013

     

    Violetta, Michele, Aba e gli Ape Escape. Solo uno di loro uscirà vincitore dall'ultima puntata del talent show di Sky Uno che per l'occasione, giovedì 12, andrà in onda anche su Cielo. Tra gli ospiti internazionali gli One Direction-

    http://tg24.sky.it/tg24/spettacolo/2013/12/11/x_factor_attesa_finale_forum_assago.html

    [sky]2013/12/11[/sky]

    So Classic Michele like Roberto Carlos and other...Tesorinoattachment.php?attachmentid=9541&stc=1&d=1386933164

    APE ESCAPE WITH INVISIBLE SOUND BARBARO....more lights...must be 07

    http://video.sky.it/xfactor/puntate/la_finale_linedito_di_violetta/v181519.vid

    [sky]v181519[/sky] one direction the history of my life"attachment.php?attachmentid=9542&stc=1&d=1386933164and my neighbours can´t let me see more sorry..

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  12. Thks Mile Lucrezia the speech of a University...

    Currently I’m a judge at the Italian X Factor, I’m also a coach of the Voice at the same time in France and I’ve a design company which I started with my sister 8 years ago: it’s a lot of stuff, and strangely I’ve never been more exited to go in a studio and making a record. At the beginning of my career, I did the opposite of what you are supposed to do, I was very closed and I had my own vision of a purist marketing strategy, to preserve me from the eyes of the media and of the public, I thought that this was going to give me some kind of freedom. Now I’ve realized I was completely wrong, this isolation that I thought was protecting my music, actually came close to hurt me. I became far more reliant to the manipulations of my record company. I think is very important for a marketer to protect and preserve a person that is going through a transition from becoming unknown to commercial. My first album was realised in 2007, but my singing career stated at 11 years old. I’ve been expelled through school and after a year doing nothing but training with a Russian singing teacher, who was hitting me when I wasn’t doing things properly, I got a job.

    I was and I’m still a very very dyslexic dropout, who is unable to read music. As a boy performer I had two specialties, I used to perform and record unlistenable contemporary music and on the other I was a specialist in very quickly recording the worse advertising jingles you have ever heard, and they were **** trust me! In the same day I was getting out from school and then I was recording Japanese song with two different orchestras, and then a jingle for a milk ad or for British Airways or Orbit Chewing gum. The fact that I couldn’t read music at the end means that I am focused in doing both things in the same way; they were just two jobs. I was making some money, and you there is nothing dirty in making some money, while you are having fun, only people with way too much money tell you it’s dirty to make money.

    Eventually my voice broke, **** happens, thank god it happens! In a couple of weeks my job was gone, so I decided to fix the problem by writing songs and sending out demos like a maniac. Not surprisingly I was completely turned down, so then I said “I’ll be an Opera singer” then I was doing auditions for every music college and I was rejected by every single one at pretty much the first audition, so very upset at the end I got a place at the London School of Economics and I went on my first day I had my first lecture and I spent 495 Pounds for my text books, they were all in front of me and I knew it was the end of this life I had since the age of 11, my dream of staying in the music was ending, I had a moment of panic and after two hours I left the books on the table and I left the LSE and I’ve never returned again. I run at Royal School of Music where I stood outside for four hours and I’ve waited the head of the vocal studies that had turned me down. I followed him at his car and then I begged him, almost crying for a second audition. I needed it! I told him I had left the LSE, I was all dressed up because I thought people where dressing well their first day of college, but actually no one was dressed up: I was the only one with a suit and a tie, thinking this was normal people do when they go to university but they only thought I was a freak. He finally gave me another audition probably because I was so weird and at the end they gave me a one-year trial. That’s when I started having a music role, as soon as I got my one-year trial. I found any possible way to not go away, so I started doing my research and I found out that government was protecting people with disabilities. Dyslexia is not something you can make up and you can prove that is true, so I got my report I took it to the head of the royal college and said “Here you cannot expel me, because I gave you an explanation”. They didn’t kicked me out but I failed all my theoretical exams, and with this bursary I got I actually didn’t payed my fees for a year and a half and I’ve used them to get myself to Miami.

    Over there there was a woman that was willing to work with me making my music and she was named Jody. In Miami Jody and I were bagging and borrowing studio houses and in exchange we where landing our voices. Jody was translating lyrics. At the end Jody and I were prostituting ourselves for studio time. Money wasn’t really existing so we where going in the studio from 8 pm to 3 in the morning. I wasn’t able to drive so we made a deal with Jody who was picking me up, and dropping me off at a gas station in North Miami on the corner of the street that it’s not very pretty at 3 am.

    This is where I met Carolina. She was a prostitute in her mid-fifties and she was there pretty much all night waiting for customers but actually she wasn’t getting many. I became fascinated by her, but mostly I was fascinated by her incredible strength. One day she disappeared and I’ve never saw her again. I wrote several songs dedicated to her, one of those was Love Today. A couple of years later I was getting a Grammy nomination for a song that was written upon a hooker. But this is not a funny thing, is a sincere thing. The truth was that Jody and I were prostituting our voices and minds to terrible companies. We hated it but it was for studio time. The difference between my life and Carolina’s was that I was at the start of my journey and Carolina was clearly at the end. Carolina for me represents my first years.

    I came back to London prepared for battle with new demos and a sense of confidence, shamelessness. I was sick of being rejected for not having the right look or too different sound, I’ve decided do take control and with my sister Jasmine I’ve created a distinctive visual world. My thought was simple: if the problem was that I wasn’t fitting into people current world, I’ll just create my own and invite them into it, and this is still the aesthetic I work with today.

    What is happening now is that majors are expanding exponentially and the number of artists that could have the opportunity to have a prior marketing roll-out are an handful. I’m now an artist in a minority within an industry in crisis. I depend on radio plays and sells all over the world: I’m a sum of all my markets. And without a serious international roll-out I’m seriously jeopardize my potential.

    Last years I did a joyful album called The Origin of Love that wasn’t really good for radios but I didn’t care, as I know that careers are not made by chasing radios 100% of the time. Without radio my international promotion schedule from Universal started fading out and disappear. I quickly started my own promotion, I searched sponsors from a toothpaste in Indonesia to radio logos on my tickets in Europe.

     

    I decided the best thing I could do was climbing Himalaya at -20°C. During one sleepless night, in the freezing cold, I made a decision that actually changed my 2013: I promised myself not to be pushed aside and working very hard because I was proud of the music I made.

    This is my first year where I’m not waiting for Universal to tell me that I can go on and promote my record.

    I want to dedicate this speech to the strength that Carolina had, which translated into something very positive in my life: courage, shamelessness, consumption, creativity, popular and credible. These words are not opposites they can co-exist, and If you wanna call me a prostitute, than I’m fine but then you are all pimps.

    Prostitutes have always been muses for artists, from la Traviata to Roxanne. They all talk about the same thing. Freddy Mercury says we are all musical prostitutes and I completely agree, but the best prostitution quote actually comes from Winston Churchill. He was to a cocktail party and asked a lady about prostitution: “If I say I’ll give you 5milions pounds to sleep with me would you say yes?” And she says “Well, for 5milions pounds the terms could be discussed” and then he goes “If give you 5 pounds would you sleep with me?” and then she says “what kind of woman do you think I am?!” and so Winston Churchill replies “we have already established the kind of woman you are, we are just talking about the price”

    The comments for me out of place...

    appreciate that he is now admitting clearly that he is prostituting himself but do not call me your pimp. I am not the one who asked him to go on a TV show and stand around for hours signing autographs on a weekly basis to sell product. If Mika wants to make an album in his basement I will buy it. What I am not buying now are these songs that are artistic compromises - duets with Ariana Grande and Chiara that are inferior to the originals. Songs written by Doriand that are inferior to Mika's songs, etc. I don't want any of that. Obviously it doesn't matter what I want. But don't call me your pimp to justify your acts of prostitution.

    are nävïe. you are hooker. Looking back at the struggles:mikasweat:AREVOLART pERIODICO THE DIFUSION CULTURAL.wHY IS IT? ONLY IS REFERED TO THE tITLE..

    In honour of a Miami Prostitute: this is not a story about a hooker, this is a story about Mika and life

    1486926_10202917253636800_2072232149_n.jpg iF THIS IS REAL for me very interesting article , opposite the point view Gay...

    for me the best this parthWhat is happening now is that majors are expanding exponentially and the number of artists that could have the opportunity to have a prior marketing roll-out are an handful. I’m now an artist in a minority within an industry in crisis. I depend on radio plays and sells all over the world: I’m a sum of all my markets. And without a serious international roll-out I’m seriously jeopardize my potential.

    Last years I did a joyful album called The Origin of Love that wasn’t really good for radios but I didn’t care, as I know that careers are not made by chasing radios 100% of the time. Without radio my international promotion schedule from Universal started fading out and disappear. I quickly started my own promotion, I searched sponsors from a toothpaste in Indonesia to radio logos on my tickets in Europe

    picture by – Vukobratovic Natasa ,cause MIka go more far away .. He is critizing himself..

    tHER REST ARTICLE IS ROMANTIC AND ABOUT HIS LIFE THT IF iT´S REALIT´S AMAZING...

    3O1_3zBUKM8

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