He's a smoothie

[annabelle]

I hope it hasn't been posted before.

 

On a plane back to London at the end of his world tour last year, Mika was sitting next to Miss Cayman Islands, a beauty queen, and the two got to practising for the interview part of her pageant program.

 

"I started making up questions for her and, just to take the piss, I asked if she could be any kitchen appliance, what would she be," the 24-year-old musician recalls. The beauty queen became flummoxed, before a light bulb went off.

 

"It was as if she had discovered the theory of relativity! She shouted, 'I would be a blender because I'm accepting of different cultures!' She looked so proud of herself that I just started to laugh. I don't want to take this all too seriously. Sometimes, God, I feel like that pageant queen."

 

Mika Penniman is a flamboyant British singer-songwriter and showman, and his debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion, sold four million records and earned him four Brit award nominations and a Gram-my nod for best dance album. He's heard all his competitors, but the Freddie Mercury-influenced falsetto, who was born in Beirut says his optimistic, operatic dance music shares nothing in common with Justin Timberlake's or Amy Winehouse's pop R & B sound.

 

"I've only managed to do well because I don't fit into any preconceived category or pigeonhole," he says. "I created my own world and my own marketplace and, really, do my own thing because it's all I've ever known how to do."

 

Growing up, Mika's family evacuated Lebanon for Paris. His dad was on business in Kuwait during the Gulf War and became trapped in the American Embassy for almost a year. The family then moved to London, where the dyslexic middle child was relentlessly bullied at school.

 

"I think going through all that had to inform what I do," he says, adding that it was music that helped him break out of his shell. He got his first job at the Royal Opera House at 11 and has been performing ever since. "I put all of that into my album, which is a schoolyard album, really-- it's about finding your feet and growing up."

 

The album, which Mika wrote, produced, played keyboards on and commissioned his sister to draw the bubblegum artwork for, becomes a celebration when performed on-stage. As he begins his North American tour tonight in Montreal and tomorrow in Toronto, the singer says he can't wait to reconnect with his Canadian audience.

 

"A lot of the elements of the show began in Canada," he says, referring specifically to the evening's climax, in which musicians take the stage in animal costumes a la the Flaming Lips. "I was in a shop in Toronto in these overpriced designer clothes and, looking around at the costumes, decided I really preferred the furry suits."

 

But even if the singer's disco inferno borders on kitsch, he's also quick to point out that his entire operation, like a Cayman Islands beauty queen, amounts to little more than a kitchen blender held together by quality songs.

 

"I stretch things as far as I can, but if the music isn't good, everything seems stupid," he says. "If you're not playing great and you're dressed as a chicken, you look like a real s---head, you know?"

 

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=268161

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12502&highlight=cayman

 

Yeh already done .. sowwyy

[vanessa]

Thanks for posting !

[annabelle]

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12502&highlight=cayman

 

Yeh already done .. sowwyy

 

Oh, sorry my bad.:doh:I must have overlooked it somehow.

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

Oh, sorry my bad.:doh:I must have overlooked it somehow.

 

Dont worry its mega easy to do

 

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