Artist.......: Mika
Album........: Live in Concert (Baden-Baden)
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Pop
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2010-01-23
Str.date.....: 2009-11-02
Quality......: 142kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.mikalife.fr/
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1. Live in Concert (Baden-Baden) 55:12
Runtime 55:12
Size 56.43
Release Notes:
Performed : November 02, 2009 (Baden-Baden)
Pop magpie Mika's bright, kaleidoscopic music has drawn
comparisons to everyone from Queen and Elton John to the
Scissor Sisters and Rufus Wainwright. Born Michael
Holbrook Penniman in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and
American father, Mika and his parents moved to Paris while
he was still a very young child, and eventually London by
the time he was nine years old. The frequent moves,
incidents like his father being taken hostage at Kuwait's
American Embassy, and bullying at school affected young
Mika to the point where he stopped talking and was taken
out of school for six months. At this point, music became
Mika's lifeline, and he soon began formal musical
training, which included voice lessons. Along with studies
at the Royal College of Music, in his teens and early
twenties Mika also recorded with the Royal Opera House and
created a jingle for Orbit chewing gum. He dropped out of
school to concentrate on his take on pop music, inspired
by freewheeling songwriters like Prince and Harry
Nilsson. His debut single, "Relax, Take It Easy," appeared
in fall 2006, but it was its follow-up, "Grace Kelly,"
that broke Mika in the U.K. Released in January 2007, the
song hit number one on the singles chart thanks to heavy
downloading, following in the footsteps of Gnarls
Barkley's "Crazy." Mika's full-length debut, Life in
Cartoon Motion, did just as well when it was released that
February, and was topping the U.K. charts around the time
it was released in the U.S. that March. The album sold
over five million copies worldwide, and Mika earned a 2008
Grammy nomination for Best Dance Record for "Live Today"
as well as that year's Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter
of the Year, among other accolades. Mika collaborated with
producer Greg Wells, Imogen Heap, and Final Fantasy's Owen
Pallett on his second album. Initially named We Are Golden
after its lead single, the album's title was changed to
The Boy Who Knew Too Much for its fall 2009 release.