Mika has announced that he will be performing a live-streamed concert from Paris today at 3pm UK time using the Facebook Live video function in support of the Margo children’s cancer charity. Margo is a French association created after Margaux, who sadly died at 14 from a brain tumour, managed to raise 103,335 Euros for cancer research while suffering from the disease.
According to the association’s, today’s event will be ‘an exceptional and intimate Christmas concert that will be broadcasted LIVE on our Facebook page and also MIKA’s Facebook page. Accompanied on the piano and by a few choristers from 100 Voices of Gospel, MIKA will sing some of the most famous Christmas songs.’ Mika moved to France to work on their version of The Voice in 2014 and while there has taken up the cause of Margo very strongly, appearing in a fundraising video and now performing this charity concert.
While fans of Mika may be disappointed that there won’t be any ‘Grace Kelly,’ or ‘We Are Golden,’ the event is sure to put people in the festive spirit as they get to see one of their favourite pop stars performing some festive numbers. With most people in the UK now experiencing severely, and surprisingly, reduced Christmas celebrations, and tensions between the UK and France a little stronger now due to an unexpected border closure, this event will hopefully help to cool some heads on both sides of the channel.
While Mika’s career began explosively, with his debut album ‘Life In Cartoon Motion,’ reaching number 1 on the official charts, a little over a decade has now passed and he has not seen an album return to the top spot since then. This is, however, perhaps no bad thing, while 2009’s follow up ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much,’ was another big hit, reaching number 4 on the charts, a slight hiatus before a third album let to his next release only reaching number 24.
Despite slipping on the charts, Mika has continued to release albums throughout the twenty-teens with his most recent release ‘My Name Is Micheal Holbrook,’ for the most part showing a much more mature side to Mika with a definite effort to show fans the real man behind the persona and the outcome is a much more sensitive record with more piano and vocal based ballads than catchy pop hooks. However, in tunes like ‘Ice Cream,’ the cheeky character we remember from 2007 hits like ‘Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)’ is still alive and well and the track oozes with funk.
Mika began his Revelation tour in support of ‘My Name Is Micheal Holbrook,’ in London fortunately just before the pandemic began. Fans who witnessed the first show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire were able to see what has been described as ‘as lovely as the first gig of the tour possibly can be,’ with a ‘cozy atmosphere,’ and a ‘vibe particularly loving with many familiar people from all over the world in the audience.’ Fans now eagerly await the next album.
