This summer, pop star MIKA will tread some of Italy's most prestigious stages to present his greatest hits livewith the skills of entertainer and showman that have always distinguished him. The date scheduled for 10 July at the Umbria Jazz in Perugia is officially sold out.
These are all the dates so far confirmed for MIKA's summer tour:
Friday 24 JUNE - Banchina San Domenico, MOLFETTA (Bari)
Sunday 26 JUNE - Stadium of the Palms, PALERMO
Tuesday 5 JULY - Pistoia Blues, PISTOIA
Wednesday 6 JULY - Piazza del Mare/Fiera di Genova, GENOA
Sunday 10 JULY - Umbria Jazz, PERUGIA - SOLD OUT!
Tuesday 12 JULY - Postepay Sound, PIAZZOLA SUL BRENTA (Padua)
Sunday 17 JULY - Collisions, BAROLO (Cuneo) - SOLD OUT!
Thursday 28 JULY - Piazza Unità d'Italia, TRIESTE
Saturday 30 JULY - La Civitella Arena, CHIETI
Sunday 31 JULY - Cavea Auditorium Parco della Musica, ROME
Tickets for the dates are available at TicketOne, Vivaticket and authorised sales circuits.
Media partner of the tour is RMC - Radio Monte Carlo.
On tour for more than a year between Europe, Asia and America, after last year's sold-out shows in Rome, Milan and Florence, Mika returns to Italy to meet his large audience singing all his greatest hits, now so many, of an artist with an ever-rising career (from 'Grace Kelly" a "Stardust", from "Relax" a "Good Guys", from "Beautiful Disaster" a "Underwater", "Love Today", "Staring At The Sun", "Lollipop", "Bum Bum Bum", "We are Golden", "Happy Ending"...). The completely live show is made unique by Mika's extraordinary skills as an entertainer and stage animal, who never spares himself on stage and is in constant synergy with the audience and his tight-knit band.
After the double platinum success of the hit "Beautiful Disaster" (with Fedez), Mika's current single is 'Hurts (remix)', extracted from his album 'No Place In Heaven". "Hurts" deals with the wounds that words can leave and is part of the soundtrack of "A kiss"Ivan Cotroneo's film. These days also see the worldwide release of "Pop Symphony"DVD and CD testimony of the orchestral concert held in Como last autumn.
Mika began his career in 2007 with the single 'Grace Kelly', which remained at No. 1 in the UK charts for five weeks. With the celebrated 'Relax Take It Easy" and the other singles from his debut album, "Life In Cartoon Motion', Mika achieved total sales of 6 million and the album itself went straight to number 1 in the UK and 11 other countries, selling over 7 million copies worldwide. His second album 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much' (2009) confirmed its success, entering the top ten in more than 10 countries, also thanks to the hits 'We Are Golden" e "Rain". In 2011, Mika published 'Elle Me Dit"French-language single that stayed at the top of the charts in France for eight weeks. The third album 'The Origin of Love'published in 2012, contains "Celebrate', produced in collaboration with Pharrell Williams, and the hits "Underwater" e "Popular Song', the latter sung in duet with Ariana Grande, whose video reached 125 million views. In 2013 Mika became a judge on XFactor Italy and coach in the French edition of The VoiceBoth TV experiences turned him into an even more popular star, so much so that he was confirmed for subsequent editions. Also in 2013, Mika released a collection of hits and revisited songs exclusively for Italy entitled "Songbook Vol. 1, which soon went double platinum. The album contains the Italian version of the hit "Stardust', the duet with the winner of X Factor Italy 2012 Chiara Galiazzo, topping the Italian charts for several months and quadruple platinum for digital sales. His concert activity takes him on constant tours to all 5 continents. In 2015, his fourth studio album was released, "No Place In Heaven"appreciated by critics and audiences alike as an artistic maturation towards an introspective and singer-songwriter dimension expressed by the famous ballads "Good Guys" e "Last Party", alternating with the radio and YouTube hit "Bum Bum Bum', 'Talk About You'. e "Staring At The Sun". During his career Mika has received numerous awards and accolades such as Brit Awards, Grammy, Ivor Novello, Capital Radio, Q magazine, NRJ, World Music, BT, Vodafone, Virgin Media and MTV Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan Awards. In France, he also received the prestigious 'Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters“.
Mika has sold over 10 million records worldwide, winning gold and platinum discs in over 32 countries.
