The initiative encouraged workers to share their music playlists with colleagues, in an effort to create a more empathetic workplace. The first single from the album, "We Are Golden", made its radio debut in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2009, on BBC Radio 2 [47] and was released for download on 6 September 2009, with the physical release following on 7 September 2009. In early December 2021, Mika announced that he would be continuing his partnership with Indeed, which would sponsor a short North American tour in spring 2022. Mika teamed up with some of the biggest names in pop to record a cover version of REM's 'Everybody Hurts' in support of charities helping relief efforts after an earthquake hit the island of Haiti in early 2010.

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His parents are an American-born Lebanese-Syrian mother (Mary Joan "Joannie", néeMouakad, daughter of John Mouakad and Odette Farah) and an American father (Michael Holbrook Penniman, son of William Frederick Penniman III and Dorothy Dyar).Love You When I'm Drunk" did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number two on the Hot 100 Singles Recurrents chart. Later he attended Westminster School in London, where he starred in a number of school productions to great acclaim. Belgian telecommunications company Mobistar featured Mika in an online film in 2014, with him singing "Grace Kelly" in front of a crowd at the Antwerp train station to promote the company's "Have a Nice Day" campaign. In addition to English, Mika speaks French, [18] Spanish and Italian [161] fluently; in an interview on 28 September 2009 with The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1, he commented that he had taken Mandarin Chinese lessons for nine years but does not speak it very well; he also mentioned that his three sisters speak it fluently.

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The concerts were performed 30 and 31 December with the orchestra and choir of Maggio Musicale, under the direction of Leclerc, who had previously conducted Mika's symphonic performances in Montreal and Como. Since then, he has made several video messages in support of this organisation [203] and in November 2017 was a special guest at a UNHCR charity event held in Milan. There, nearly 20,000 fans were entertained for almost two hours, with confetti, balloons, bubbles, fan actions and more in an explosive end-of-summer celebration.There was also a collector's version of the bottle that was packaged in a decorated box that opened to show a 3D scene. Rounding out the summer of international collaborations, on 11 September 2020, Mika appeared along with Mexican singer and actress Danna Paola on her single titled Me, Myself. Mika reunited with conductor Simon Leclerc at the end of 2016 to perform two concerts at the Teatro dell'Opera di Firenze in collaboration with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

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Mika was raised as a Melkite Catholic, and in a 2013 interview he described himself as "still a Roman Catholic". The tour will visit 16 cities in France, with additional stops in Luxembourg, Geneva, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin.The "Happiness Bottle" was, according to Mika, inspired by Japanese psychedelic posters from the 1960s. While attending these events, he was followed by Italian filmmaker Pif, who filmed a special episode on a day in Mika's life, which was broadcast in the fall on Italian television show Il Testimone (The Witness). It continued in 2020 with stops in Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and Italy [90] then went on to several dates in New Zealand and Australia.

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In May 2019, Mika released the single "Ice Cream" and announced his fifth studio album, My Name Is Michael Holbrook, for release on 4 October 2019. In October 2019, Mika was honored with the Music Award at the 2019 Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards [89] hosted in London by the UK's Attitude magazine.In May 2010 Mika released the single " Kick Ass (We Are Young)", the title track to the 2010 film Kick-Ass. In July 2015, posters advertising Mika's upcoming concert in Florence, Italy, were defaced and marked with a homophobic slur. The album went straight to number one in the UK and 11 other countries, and brought comparisons with artists such as Freddie Mercury, [30] [31] Scissor Sisters, [32] Elton John, [33] Prince, [34] Robbie Williams [35] and David Bowie. Mika's promotional tour of the single included live performances at the iTunes Festival 2009 at The Roundhouse in Camden, London and on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in September 2009. After the devastating explosion that hit Beirut in August 2020, Mika was moved to honor his Lebanese heritage and organized a streaming concert in aid of the citizens of that city.