Mika is back. Four years after the release of My Name Is Michael Holbrook, the 40-year-old artist is back in force with a new album entitled Let your head bloom. A record in French through which he explores “new creative territories”reports The duty. “I wanted to feel like I didn’t know what was going to happen, how I was going to cope. And newness is a very important thing, especially for someone like me, who just turned 40. It was good to feel like there was something new.” he confided recently in the columns of our colleagues.
In full promotion of this new project, the interpreter of Lollipop has been doing interviews for several weeks. This Sunday, December 10, 2023, he also gave an interview to Sunday newspaper. An opportunity for the singer to look back on his creative process. “I want us to enter a colorful ‘safe place’. A place where we feel safe, in pop music, an atmosphere that is both sexual and full of candor. I wanted an album without shame , confident, joyful and romantic”.
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“The bailiffs had taken everything from us.”
During this exchange, Mika also spoke about his difficult childhood. “Following a reversal of fortune, we had to leave Paris […]. We left the comfort of the 16th arrondissement for a more unstable life in London.”, he revealed. And to continue: “In Paris, the bailiffs took everything from us. But we still had an upright piano”. A piano thanks to which he “learned to play” and which was undoubtedly decisive for his future in the music industry.
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