Sweet dream interview: Annie Lennox

My interview with diva-turned-global-crusader Annie Lennox.

The Mika Interview (Long Version)

Full version of my interview with Mika (above)

I'm a fan of Mika, and was thrilled to have him visit our studio.  I love his story.  He was a shy, dyslexic, daydreamer as a boy.  Now 23, he has grown into an effervescent, articulate, dreamboy performer.
His musical style is compared to that of Freddie Mercury, the Scissor Sisters, and Elton John.  Yet for all the fawning of his gay fans, Mika won't discuss his sexuality.  That wasn't the only thing I wanted to press him on, but I did raise the issue.

Here's Mika's bio, cut and pasted from his web site:

Mika is a true young internationalist. Born in Beirut in the middle of the 80s, Mika’s family soon found themselves having to move to Paris at the height of the war. When his father was subsequently taken hostage and held at the American embassy in Kuwait the family eventually settled in London. An inevitably turbulent experience for our young hero, he found himself bereft, lost in the chasm of a displaced upbringing. “It was the combination of moving as well as a horrible time I had at school in the first few years of living in London that lead me to forget how to read and write, and stop talking for a little while. I was pulled out of school for over six months; in order to sort my self out and find a new school. This is when music really became important. It got me back on my feet.” He says now that by the age of 9 he knew that songwriting was his destiny.