I had to confront desire. Might 18-year-old Kamal be UK's music's answer to Billie Eilish? “Why don’t you like me?” sang Mika in a gleefully petulant falsetto when he burst onto the pop scene in 2007. These tall Victorian buildings all around us, with silhouettes of so many people watching from the windows. We followed Nikos on a trip back to Albania, where he faces his past and his roots and for a while becomes Andi again.

“But I’ve always struggled,” says Mika, “with idea that bright colours are brash and untrustworthy.

I haven’t been home in weeks.”, He’s talking about his flat in London, not the grand house in Miami.


“We escaped the expansiveness of france into the glamour of Italy. I could feel my thighs chafing, creating a rash I would have to address later. She is walking again and has given birth to a son.

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“He was taken to the American Embassy where doors were closed and Saddam’s troops surrounded them,” he tells me. 301 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from ‘andydermanis’ hashtag His mother was born in America to Lebanese parents. En 2012, Mika révélait qu'il est homosexuel et qu'il était en couple avec Andy.
To allow just enough self-expression to get their point across, while keeping themselves protected. Filmed over a period of six months from the Greek-Turkish border to Athens and the Serbian border town of Sid, ‘Lost Youth’ captures the complex world of a group of young Afghan men who arrive in Europe chasing a western dream. In Athens they must choose between enrolling in the asylum program or continuing their journey north of the border to more affluent EU nations.

They’ve been together for 13 years and Mika says the colour of their love is: “All the greens of the English countryside.” The “quietness and kindness”  of their relationship, he says, is a soothing contrast to the cartoon colours of Mika’s pop sound and image. “My record company wanted to block the video in Italy,” he says. OFFICIAL SELECTION MOVIEMENT FILM FESTIVAL 2019. “A girl tried to kiss me and it just felt completely wrong,” he says.

We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. And I love jades and ochres and sleepy greys. “I looked at her, she was so vulnerable, her body there for all to see. Colour is everything to me,” he pauses. He poses and prowls when singing, but his lithe, 6ft3 frame seems to collapse inward at the knees and elbows (like one of those little wooden toys with the press-up base) between songs as he repeatedly thanks his band for “some much patience, putting up with me”. The Livestream review: the boldest virtual gig since Covid. Andreas Dermanis, ou plus communément Andy Dermanis, demeure assez peu connu du grand public. Back in Paris, we lived in a suspended moment. It’s home.”, Mika plays the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, on November 10. Read our community guidelines in full, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, Mika: 'They said I was stupid and unteachable', Performing with Beth Ditto at the 2008 Brit Awards, Mika: 'A girl tried to kiss me and it just felt completely wrong', Mika: 'Our feelings don’t always come in tasteful hues', Sam Smith, Abbey Road Studios review: soaring vocals and soul-bearing lyrics, Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on how he spends his Saturday playing football and having rap battles, Jess Glynne talks Grammys, taking control and why women shouldn't be pressured to look a certain way, Dizzee Rascal, E3 AF, review: the elder statesman of British rap returns, Behind the scenes with Queen’s tour photographer Neal Preston: ‘They were simply possessed’. Every song – written on a white piano at his home studio in Miami – is shot through with colour. People mute colour to make it cool. Filmed over a period of six months from the Greek-Turkish border to Athens and the Serbian border town of Sid, ‘Lost Youth’ captures the complex world of a group of young Afghan men who arrive in Europe chasing a western dream. Movies. When everyone tells you there’s something wrong with you, that gets absorbed. When our family comes together you will hear poems recited in classical Arabic.”. With the associations it has with destruction and a banalisation of Islam. His glam-dance chart topper, Grace Kelly, was a gleefully theatrical outburst over the record industry’s failure to see where the gangling, opera-trained, Beirut-born, London-bred artist would fit into their catalogues. I didn't realise how beautiful it was until I wrote Paloma: 'I found you fighting in the darkness but there was beauty in that too'". Anybody who reveals themselves by being disappointed? Billie Eilish, Where Do We Go? They made me stand on my desk for two hours at a time.” So his mother home-schooled him for two years. Mika himself didn’t officially leave the closet until 2012 and says those struggling with their sexuality should see the date as “an opportunity for storytelling, not a pressure. Paralysed by the enormity of the difficulties they face, the men soon find themselves losing sight of their dream and risk becoming part of the city’s underworld.

Five years after the move to France, Mika’s dad was on a business trip to Kuwait when Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded. It made him cry, but we refused to call him dad ever again. “But it felt like being bullied at school.”, Now, aged 36, he tells me it’s “time to be candid… to dismantle the last vestige of useless puda (shame) and make peace with who I am.”. Afterwards, he invites me to share his sandwich – “the relentlessly hospitable Lebanese in me cannot eat alone!” – he encourages me to “ask anything, really, just go ahead… pepper?” He wipes the sweat from his forehead. Even as Melkites, we inevitably learned a lot about Islam and become defenders of the right kind of that faith. His dad “was a real WASP”: the Israeli-born banker son of an American diplomat. She said: ‘Mika, I’m fine, just get these people away and let me get up.’”. Civil war drove the family from Beirut when Mika was just one year old and they re-settled, at first, in France. “Blue for intensity. “Too melodic” for the alternative scene. Menu. Ariana Grande, Positions, review: plenty of lust, but where are the hits? OFFICIAL SELECTION TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017. Yes. I had to go to school in one world, knowing my dad was in a war in another world.”, When Michael Holbrook Snr finally came home “he was so different – so thin and with a beard – that none of us could call him ‘dad’ anymore. He lost his job. “He was trapped there for around eight months, listening to the bombs and the snipers. Paloma has now made a remarkable recovery. But I refused. I had a long walk through a dark tunnel, then went home and sat at the piano. “It’s life. “I only live 250m away. It was around the time his dad was in Kuwait that Mika realised he was gay. Cela fait plus de douze ans que Mika et Andreas Dermanis surnommé "Andy" sont en couple. Her neighbour called me at 4am. He later tells me that he “comes from a place that doesn’t exist any more.”. TV Shows. OFFICIAL SELECTION TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Feature documentary, 47mins, Andi Ngjela, who was baptised as Nikos Gelia when he came to Greece, is very different today from the days of his childhood in Albania. They’ve been together for 13 years and Mika says the colour of … Mika proved them wrong by singing the rainbow of his possibilities: “I could be blue/ I could be brown/ I could be violet sky.” But admitted the search for approval had sent him “identity mad”. He recalls the moment paramedics told him he would need to say goodbye to her. No longer religious, Mika is still “obsessed with food” and its colours: “roasted red peppers, stuffed green courgettes braised in chicken broth with sage, okra stewed in tomato sauce with a touch of cardamom and nutmeg, fattoush salad, crisp, Lebanese bread covered in puce, pomegranate syrup and sour sumac spice…”, He tells me he lives “in a state of campaigning against the Western perception of the Middle East as arid and colourless. I can remember the feel of my damp, sweaty T shirt tucked into my beige GAP jeans. All those beautiful young Italians and the frustrated feeling that I would only ever be a watcher, not a lover.

Nikos Gelia was born in Albania in the early 1990s in a turbulent period for the neighboring country. “But they said I was stupid and unteachable. It takes a lot of kind people to make you really feel the absurdity of that self-hatred.”.

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