On Sunday Mika was a guest at Portrait of the Week Seven to eight. The opportunity for the artist to advertise May your head always bloom, his sixth album, but also and above all to address the disappearance of his mother, which is the source of this new work.
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In fact, he owes the title of this album to his mother, who gave him these words in the caption of a drawing made for his birthday before she succumbed to a brain tumor.
“I'm remote, I give concerts. My sister tells me she insists on getting the iPad. She could draw on an iPad because she could no longer write. So she drew me this drawing,” Mika told the TF1 show, hosted by Audrey Crespo-Mara. “She sent it to me, it took hours. It's a portrait of me, quite naive, with a sailor top and flowers growing from my head. And there is this message: “Happy birthday, I wish your mind can always bloom.”
A message as tender as it is heartbreaking, which the 40-year-old singer considered an “instruction” for the rest of his life, which his mother wanted to convey to him before he left. For him, his mission is clear: “Continue to have ideas,” “turn them into reality,” and “not waste an inch of this thing until the end.”