European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page i o stars an stripes thursday april 12 2007 faces Jim Singer Mika is photographed at Sirius radio in new York Beirut Lebanon born and Paris raised songwriter Mika is on the top of the charts in the United kingdom Singer never vibe with Compromise by Nekesia Mumbai Moody the associated press new York being different is a key trait if you want to make yourself stand out in the musical Arena it is not a prize attribute however during those awkward adolescent years Mika the latest singing sensation from across the Pond found out both lessons at an Early age Beirut Lebanon born and Paris raised until he was 9 he found himself an outcast after his family moved to London his interest in piano and singing along with his dyslexia further distanced him from class mates and he became the prey of bullies away from school he began to perform and that became his respite he found his flamboyance was celebrated not taunted he got respect for singing and better yet got paid for it so no wonder the first single in the the piano heavy falsetto crooned Grace Cele Brates his refusal to conform like the musicians he idolized As a child Prince and David Bowie among them the 23yearold does Best when he stands apart the associated press you gotten a lot of Buzz in Advance of your debut cd life in cartoon to How has that affected you Mika i think in Lucky hype can be Good and hype can be bad the Good thing that happening to me is that the hype is about the project its about the in not the son of anyone famous i Haven really slept with anyone particularly Well known its really just about music and that something i think is very healthy a you got your Start in a somewhat unusual Way Mika from a very Early age i used to Gate crash parties and just get to the stage and perform or i would just kind of walk around and push my face into everyone face but then when i started to try and get a serious Deal up until about a year and a hah0 ago i was just going around and playing the piano just about everywhere i climbed up the music executive ladder kind of quickly because i was willing to perform for anyone and everywhere so that kind of How i got my Deal a your first single Grace kind of pokes fun at the idea of conformity How do you resist the temptation to copy what is commercially viable Mika people were saying to me if you just be come a Little bit More commercial or you become a Little bit More like whats Selling at the moment whatever that was at the time whether it was Rob Bie Williams or David Gray then you can make it but to me it was never an option i think i figured out that i would rather be a total failure but be myself and at least give it a shot than be moderately successful pretend to be someone else Only have it last a certain amount of time and be Happy As a result a were you surprised that you turned out to be so successful Mika in surprised at the Speed in which Ive been embraced i think anyone deluded enough to go into the music Industry has to have some kind of self belief but at the same time i was surprised that i got to no 1 i never expected to get to no 1 in the i never knew it would be a commercially bankable career James Blu Collar King finally closes his court Kevin James who stars on the King of credits the Success of the Longrun Ning sitcom to staying under the radar it May have worked for us be cause people Kinda left us the 41yearold actor said in a recent con Ference Call you know when they tapped us on the shoulder and we looked up it was nine years later we never really were that shiny show but were a simple show and that something that in proud exotic twins take inside track to Fame Elise and Electra Avellan twin nieces of director Robert Rodriguez never thought acting in Grin House would bring them instant Fame we had no idea so Many peo ple were going to be calling Elise said it was like a bomb fell in our apartment one the 20yearold venezuelans appear in the april edition of Maxim in Espanol Magazine and have received several requests to act together As Well As separately in films they also caused a commotion last week when they showed up wearing red dresses at the films premiere after leading actress Rose Mcgowan sent a message to publicists asking that no one else Wear that color but her we still didst have a publicist so we did not Electra said we did not understand what was happening and the truth is Rose did not even it was an exaggeration by the Dan reveals father of a playmates daughter Anna Nicole Smiths former Boyfriend Larry Birkhead said tuesday that Dan tests have proven he is the father of her in Fant daughter Birkhead emerged from a closed court hearing to announce the results Smiths companion Howard k Stern has been car ing for the girl Nannielynn who could inherit a Fortune in the Wake of her mothers february death after the hearing Stern said he would not fight for custody an expert in genetic evidence said the Dan analysis has proven Birkhead is Danni Lynns father or Michael Baird who Analysed the results of a March 21 Dan test announced the results out Side the court essentially Hes the biological Baird said a jubilant Birkhead said my baby going to be coming Home pretty Johnny cases former Home catches fire firefighters were battling flames in a major fire at the Home of the late country Singer Johnny Cash on tuesday afternoon authorities said dispatchers said All but one of the cites engines had responded to the fire in Hendersonville a suburb Northeast of Nash Ville Cash and his wife june Carter Cash lived at the Home until their deaths in 2003 the lakefront property was Pur chased by Barry Gibb a member of the Bee gees in january 2006 Hendersonville fire depart ment officials said construction Crews were working there when the fire started the cause is unknown no injuries were reported stories and photos from wire reports us Tann where Ever 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