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Yes, that's what he says.

You're right, it can't be true that he was nine.

Thank you, I did think that Mika talked about his father been taken hostage. OK, so it's also clear that they moved to London with their dad, I don't think he would confuse with this. No, 1993 is not possible. And unlikely in 1992. Because his parents didn't know at first that he was being bullied at school and the worst part: also by a teacher. If they had gone in January 1992, they would have noticed after a month what conditions were in the school. If he had gone back to school after his first performances at the Royal Opera House. But I don't know when he went back to school? And I think with rush Mika means that they had to leave as soon as their father came back.

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Yes me too. Yes, maybe there is a double meaning there, but I don't think that's it. To me it would only make sense if he had told his mother that he was gay and no one else and she would take that to her grave...

If it were written in a different context it would make sense to me, but with the lines that come before. Why are there flowers somewhere because Mika is gay? Why are his siblings sad? Certainly not because he's gay.

Yes, but does it make sense in this context? He talks about his mother, was she part of the LGBTQIA+ community? Will she take the secret with her to her grave? I don't think the "placard" here has anything to do with this topic.

Nikos also said that Mika will sing with around 100 children before the rugby final on October 28th and that we have now seen part of it. I didn't realize this, I thought Mika had recently practiced the hymns with the children. But it actually makes sense. The children should know the hymns by now. And Mika says that it was a great experience for him, that the children come from all over France and that the children learned to sing thanks to this project. And the Isabelle Ithurburu says that since Mika has been a coach of the project, it has become a success. And he says that he can now use what he learned on The Voice with these children. And he says they are fabulous. He says that the most important thing is the match (the final) and he wants to open it with a good energy with all these children, with colors, joy and they will do everything to make it happen. He laughs and says that you shouldn't boo at La Place de la Concorde because it's dangerous (as the fans boo when Isabelle talks about England). And I'm not sure if he says at the end that he and his brother played rugby.

Yes that could be right. I remember it now. But if they had no contact at all, I don't think they would have gone to London without their father. How would he have found them?

OK, I changed that. Yes, I don't know, but I always thought that they only left Paris when his father came back. The family certainly wanted to know how he was doing and it would have been so difficult for him to contact his family. How did that work exactly? With faxes? Did his father write it himself or did the ambassady write it? And I don't know, but were they able to write back? If they could write, could they give him the new address? Would they risk that it wouldn't work and they couldn't be reached? But it's true, I can't remember if Mika said that they went to London when his father was back or if I just imagined it that way. Yes, I forgot he said "in a rush." Then it was probably 1991. And yes, Mika was of course very traumatized. 🙈 Not sure he would lie about something so important. I guess that he rather doesn't tend to correct the interviewer when he says something wrong, especially when it comes to numbers, because he often doesn't know it very well himself.

Since no one has addressed it yet, this is what I think about it: C’est quoi ces fleurs et son amour (the flowers on the coffin) Mes frères et sœurs et leurs cœurs lourds (how his siblings feel in front of the coffin during the funeral) Placard fermé à double tour (I think Mika is talking about the coffin) But that was the first that came to my mind and it can be totally wrong and he really means a closet because "placard" doesn't seem to be a common word for coffin. But there is also the expression in English: to have a skeleton in the closet, which seems to be used in a similar colloquial context in French as: "Avoir un cadavre, un squelette dans le placard" (source: Le Petit Robert). Of course that means something completely different, but there is also a corpse and a "placard" .

OK, when I discovered Mika in 2016, I did what most people who discovered Mika did when his career had already lasted a while: Watched interviews they could find on the internet without paying attention to the chronological order. In the beginning, I just watched the interviews. But soon I noticed, especially when I watched interviews about the same topics from different years, that Mika always used different numbers. I was confused and frustrated by this fact, to be honest, because as a new fan I wanted to know everything about Mika and numbers used to be important to me. But at some point I gave up trying to get the numbers right and thought that I would never know everything about Mika anyway and that it was probably not that important. I learned that Mika is dyslexic. But I think it took me a while to learn that dyslexia can also affect maths and not just language, that he can't read the clock or timetables and that this is the reason why he can't read music. Before I got to know Mika, I thought that dyslexics simply had problems with spelling. I would not have thought that severe forms of dyslexia could have such consequences. OK, now it's clear why Mika has problems remembering numbers. Apart from the fact that he has problems remembering the numbers, I don't think he cares that much that they are correct, but I do. And after talking in the French news thread about when Mika went to London with his family, because he said in a recent interview that it was 1987 and he would only have been four, that that can't be and we seem to have found out when it was, I decided to make this thread. It only took 7 years, but now I finally seem to know for sure when Mika moved to London. I'm going to list mostly numerical things in this thread that are not so easy to figure out because they are based only on Mikamaths and it takes research to figure out the correct data. 😅 I won't list concert dates here because they are easy to figure out (unless I suddenly have too much time on my hands ). Seems not though because I have a lot of interviews to catch up on and there are always new ones because his new album is about to be released. Any help is welcome. Just tell me what you know and I will update things in the first post. Let's get some order in Mika's biography. 18th August 1983: Mika was born in Beirut, Lebanon. (ok, this one was easy😅) 1984: When Mika was 1 year old, his family left Lebanon because of the war there with the help of US Navy and moved to Cyprus for a while. Early 1985 (probably): From Cyprus they moved to Paris in France because of the war in Lebanon. Mika has said he was 1.5 years in more interviews than 1 year (at least in the ones I've seen). According to my calculations, that would be 1985. (please tell me if you have more information) 1990: Mika wrote at the age of 7 his first song, a piano instrumental called "Angry", which he describes as awful (I only have Mika a as source, so I'm not sure if the age is correct, but for now I'll mention it like that also as it is going to be difficult to prove the age).1 1990: Mika's father got stuck at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait at the start of the First Gulf War* and couldn't leave there for 6 to 9 months. *Attention: The Gulf Wars are not counted the same everywhere and in all languages. What is meant here is the war in Iraq and Kuwait between 2nd August 1990 and 5th March 1991. In German, this war is called, for example, "Zweiter Golfkrieg" (literal translation: Second Gulf War). 1991 (probably): Since the war ended on March 5, 1991, there was no longer any reason that Mika's father would stay at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. So it stands to reason that he came back to Paris in 1991. And since they were in debt and debtors wanted money, I guess they didn't stay in Paris too long. Hence my theory that they moved to London sometime in 1991. 1991 and/or 1992: Mika is bullied at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London, by classmates and especially by a teacher. When Mika's father found out about this from one of Mika's sisters, he confronted the teacher/school about it and Mika had to leave school. Mika doesn't go to school for between nine months and a year. He gets piano lessons by a Russian opera professional (Alla Ardakov) and spends a lot of time in the park Kensington Gardens. 16th November 1992: Mika makes his first appearance as a chorus member at The Royal Opera in Strauss's piece "Die Frau ohne Schatten" in London's Covent Garden.2 From 1992/1993: Mika returns to school, he attends the St Philip's School in Kensington, London, and is the head of the Schola Cantorum (the St Philip's Choir).3 3rd November 1997: Mika plays at The Royal Opera in "The Pilgrim's Progress" the Woodcutter's Boy.4 1998: Mika sang a piece of contemporary music ( lyrics in Japanese ) written by the Japanese composer Dai FUJIKURA, at Kazimierz Serocki International Composers' Competition at Warsaw Poland, Mr. Fujikura won the first prize!5 2001-2002 (since when?): Mika attends for sure the Westminster School in London in 2001 and 2002 (I found different things) but I don't know since when. 2002/2003: Mika enrolled at the London School of Economics, but changed his mind the same day and managed to enrol at the Royal College of Music a short time later. 2002/2003-2006?: Mika attends Royal College of Music at tjhe age of 19.6 I can't say for sure if what the article says is true, but it does say that he went to the Royal College of Music when he was 19 (so 2002/2003), which makes sense. This is the beginning of the biography. I add data whenever I have time. Also of course between the dates that I wrote, as there are a lot of things missing. Discography 5th February 2007: Release of Life in Cartoon Motion via Casablanca Records in the UK (27 March 2007 in the United States) Mika's shoe size: 43.5 (Europe) [This can be seen in a shoe shape (or however this is cold) from Louboutin and he should know what shoe size Mika has. ], 9,5 (UK), 10,5 (US), 28,5 (Asia). Mika's height: 6.3 feet. In centimeters I think I've seen everything from 190 cm to 194 cm, but in feet only 6.3, so I'm assuming that Mika is 192 cm tall because that's what I get when I convert feet to centimeters. Are you okay with that? Honestly, I've often had the urge to take a meter to an event and measure Mika myself. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_(singer)#cite_note-mirror-16 2 https://www.rohcollections.org.uk/production.aspx?production=3874&row=1 (Mika is not menitoned, only when the play took place, I will look for it, when I have time). 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_(singer) 4 https://www.rohcollections.org.uk/SearchResults.aspx?searchtype=workprodperf&person=mica penniman 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Fujikura, https://twitter.com/daifujikura/status/22435143628?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^22435143628|twgr^b87a36083c2935db3c42085ecd9a9d1ba86e3999|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mikafanclub.com%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdaifujikura%2Fstatus%2F22435143628%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc255Etfw257Ctwcamp255Etweetembed257Ctwterm255E22435143628257Ctwgr255E520bf1de2a2c2bd10e421cb082fb235cd4be0394257Ctwcon255Es1_26ref_url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.mikafanclub.com%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdaifujikura%2Fstatus%2F22435143628 https://twitter.com/mikasounds/status/22434229833?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^22434229833|twgr^8e9ce1629bd27777bafe34e7ab11035095bb9300|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mikafanclub.com%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmikasounds%2Fstatus%2F22434229833 6 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/introducing-the-sound-of-2007-mika-the-man-the-myth-the-music-433322.html

It is also in his interest if some fans in non-French-speaking places also know the lyrics. Then it is easier to sing the song there (and not only to have helpers to help him when he forgets the lyrics ).

0 tickets left again at the moment.

Things are looking good for London. It was like that last night and it's still like that today: the standing room in the stalls seems to be sold out on eventim.

And lack of sleep. Well, my eyes shine like this if I haven't slept enough. 😅

Yes, it seems so. But Mika says (in summary) that the heart is often where you spent your early childhood and for him that was Paris. So he keeps his fingers crossed for France.

I'm not quite sure if I made the thread in the right place (otherwise just move it please ). I recorded Mika's performance and the conversation with Mika after the performance with my mobile phone (I'm afraid that's the best I can offer you 😅). VID_20231012_214031272[1].mp4

The programme will be broadcast live tonight at 9.10pm on TF1.

Yes, I think it is clear that Mika's father was held hostage in the war between 1990 and 1991. Now the problem: not all countries count the "Gulf wars" in the same way. In German, the 1st Gulf War is called the 2nd Gulf War: Der Zweite Golfkrieg (auch Erster Irakkrieg genannt, englisch (First) Gulf War oder Gulf War I, arabisch حرب الخليج الثانية, DMG ḥarb al-ḫalīǧ aṯ-ṯāniya): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweiter_Golfkrieg And in German, the war between Iran and Iraq from 22 September 1980 and until 20 August 1988 is called the 1st Gulf War.

Yes, I agree 100%. I wish the fans were like that in Europe...

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Just as a side note: Mika can remember faces very well.

Yes, the 12 tickets for Tours went on sale the night before yesterday (my time zone), there were no tickets there for days before that. Now are 5 tickets left for the moment.

Manchester now seems to be sold out on Seetickets as well (there is now a waiting list).