Last updated: Monday, June 4, 2007

MIKA: 'MUSIC HELPED ME TO READ AND WRITE AGAIN'

Pop star MIKA credits music for helping him to read and write again after a troubled childhood.

MIKA

The singer moved from a war-torn Beirut to London, England when he was a child, and his education soon began to suffer.

The Grace Kelly hitmaker says, "A hard time at school early on in London led me to forget how to read and write. But music helped me."

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Source: WENN

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