Mika
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And that's when the dyslexia really settled in.
Long story short, I get kicked out of school.
I had issues with a teacher and my mother looked at me and she goes, you know what?
You're not going to go to school.
I'll say, yes.
I said, what am I going to do?
She goes, you're going to go to the park.
I said, yes, I'm going to go to the park.
This is great.
and you're going to learn how to sing, and you're going to learn piano.
I was like, oh, okay.
I didn't realize she meant four to five hours a day.
Oh, my God.
My piano teacher showed up, and it was a Russian woman called
Alla, who didn't speak much English and used to speak to me in Russian.
She realized very quickly that in order, because I couldn't read music and I still can't, I would sing, she would sing to me and I would sing it back and then I'd be able to play it.
And so she would say, oh, well, if you can sing...
Why don't we just start singing?
And I started to sing Schubert and Russian songs, German songs.
And then I started working.