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I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

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Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
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Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
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