Mika is relaunching his music profession beneath his actual title, Michael Holbrook.
The ‘Grace Kelly’ hitmaker – who had a string of hits within the early 00s’ – will return with model new album ‘My Name Is Michael Holbrook’ on October 4, his first file in 4 years, and he has admitted it took him two years to determine the place he wished to take his music profession subsequent.
He informed the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column: ”It’s nearly like I’m beginning once more, turning over a brand new web page.
”I’m referred to as Mika but additionally Michael Holbrook. That’s my father’s title and I’m really Michael Holbrook junior, the third.
”It’s an previous American household with a variety of custom but additionally a variety of secrets and techniques I did not actually learn about.”
The file has been impressed by the ‘We Are Golden’ hitmaker’s time spent within the US and began off with the observe ‘Tiny Love’.
He mentioned: ”It’s my fifth album so I wished a brand new perspective.
”It took me two years to determine what I used to be going to do.
”So I went on a highway journey to the States and after I received again I wrote a track referred to as ‘Tiny Love’.
It opens with the phrase: ‘My title is Michael Holbrook and I used to be born in 1983’.”
Michael’s new tunes are about household and his mum and sisters will seem on the album, which sees him open up about issues he is by no means mentioned publicly earlier than, and he in contrast it to the ”daring colors” of his debut LP ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’, launched again in 2007.
He teased: ”It’s not sombre or darkish or unhappy, it is the other. It’s a unique aspect of me.
”I sing quite a bit about stuff that is occurred in my life that I have not spoken about earlier than.
”About my brother and sisters and my mum.
”There’s even an look by my mum and sister on the file.
”It’s private however with an infinite quantity of pleasure that can make you dance and cry. It’s filled with daring colors, like the colors of my first album and the melodies too.”
