STG Presents Mika 10/26 At The Moore Theatre

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Mika on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30pm at the Moore Theatre.

By now it is clear that Mika is not as other artists are. His surname could just as well be 'Singular'. Enveloped in an imaginative musical world of his own creation, he is one of the few British male pop stars of his age that doesn't run with the pack. Classically trained, racially mixed and prone to theatrical physical gesture, he has become a scion of ambitiously delivered self-expression. He says his music can be condensed easily, 'the basic principals are that it is joyful and empowering and doesn't cowtow to fashion or convention,' calling to mind an old and almost forgotten pop notion: individuality.

Mika opened his pop career with the defining single Grace Kelly. It has sold almost 3 million copies worldwide and was only the second British single to top the chart on downloads alone. His total single sales from Life In Cartoon Motion add up beyond six million. The album itself bagged over 5 million till receipts. Mika was nominated for and won awards from the Brits, the Grammys, the Ivor Novellos, Capital Radio, Q magazine, The World Music Awards, BT and Vodaphone, Virgin Media and MTV's Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan, amongst others. But the statistics only hint at the strident grip he boldly took on pop music when he entered its fray; they are the neat vindication that one of pop's biggest outsiders could conquer from within.

Mika's new album, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, will be released on September 22, 2009.
Tickets: $29.50, not including applicable fees. Tickets are on sale Saturday, August 29th at 10am at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box offices, 24-hour kiosks located outside The Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at 877-STG-4TIX, or online at STGPresents.org.