The Portrait: Mika – My mother, my muse – Seven to eight

Where does this multi-coloured, gently melancholic pop gaiety come from, given that he had a childhood that was often hurt? Mika draws his energy from the values ​​transmitted by his mother, Lebanese, a pillar of his life. More than an education, it is a “philosophy of colour”, as he calls her, this mother who left him, on his birthday, a very symbolic drawing before passing away. “She had brain cancer”, he says. What his mother calls “flowering” is also the spirit of his family. “It was a way of resisting life, of starting over every time there was a challenge”, he explains. “The bullying started at school when I was eight or nine years old”, Mika also says. What is crazy is that it was bullying from a teacher. “It was little comments in front of everyone that made the whole class laugh”, explains the singer. This video excerpt is from the replay of Sept à Huit, a weekly news and reporting program broadcast on TF1 and presented by Harry Roselmack. 7 à 8 offers 3 to 4 reports on current events: politics, news, society or even international events.