It has been a little while hasn’t it? I love this next artist! His newest CD “Life in Cartoon Motion” has the most fitting title I’ve ever seen for an album. Awesomely(!) fun cd from a great new artist!

A self-taught piano virtuoso, gymnastic vocalist and born entertainer, Mika has music in his bones and at a prodigiously young age he was ready to show out and let go. Mika wasn’t hunched over a radio under his bedclothes or seduced by the glitz of “Top of the Pop’s” on the TV screen when he had his first performance awakenings. Instead, he was catapulted onto the stage of a Richard Strauss opera at 11. David Hockney was pottering around at rehearsals in the background, with models, designing the set (Mika still has the poster for the opera on his living room wall now, signed by Hockney). After near complete social exclusion at school – “I wish I could say I was a self-imposed loner but it was imposed on me” – this was a life he fell in love with, instantly:

“It was a magical world that you could live in. A parallel universe for people that is illusory and enchanting and amazing.”

His US site. His cd isn’t avalible in the states quite yet, but give it a month or so and I’m sure he’ll be on the shelves here!

Grace Kelly:

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