Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr., better known as Mika, is a singer-songwriter from Beirut, Lebanon, who was raised in Paris and London. Mika was named the number one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 after recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday, in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007.
Mika’s first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, was released on Island Records in 2007 and has sold over 8.3 million copies worldwide, earning Mika a Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act and a Grammy Award nomination. Mika topped the UK Singles Chart with “Grace Kelly” in January 2007, and has since gone on to record four more platinum-selling studio albums, as well as serve as a judge/mentor on both the French and Italian versions of The Voice.
Mika also hosted his own BBC Radio 2 show The Art of Song and starred in his own television variety show in Italy, Stasera Casa Mika, which won the 2017 Rose d’Or Award for Entertainment. Mika will co-host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022 with Italian singer Laura Pausini and Italian television host Alessandro Cattelan.
Mika Children: Does Mika Have Kids?
Mika has no children.