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Mikolas Josef

Mikolas Josef will represent Czech Republic at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Lie To Me'.

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Mikolas Josef is a composer, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and director of music videos. He grew up in Prague and Znojmo, but now lives mainly in Vienna. Mikolas comes from a family of musicians and has been playing the guitar since he was five. 

Mikolas graduated from The English College in Prague and although his study grades were good enough for him to go to prestigious UK colleges, he opted not to keep studying, but to get on with his musical career. Aged 17, Mikolas won the highest meritorious award from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts; the Gold Medal with distinction for solo acting. He has not yet taken up a career in acting though. 

Just before embarking on his musical career, Mikolas spent a year working as an international model, for major global fashion brands. He cut his promising modelling career short, rejecting practices within the industry. After leaving the modelling world, he headed to European cities including Oslo, Zurich, Hamburg, Vienna, and Prague, where he made a living as a street musician. After a year of travelling he invested his savings in his creative work, which in 2015 resulted in his first single and video-clip Hands Bloody.

Mikolas became better known to Czech fans after his second single Free. This song has been ranked the fourth most played local song in the Czech Republic. The single Believe held the top slot of the most prestigious Czech hit charts, the Evropa 2 music chart, for 3 weeks. After Believe, Mikolas moved to Vienna, invited there by the renowned European sound-mix engineer Nikodem Milewski who later became, in Mikolas’ words, his "musical mentor". Milewski, who works closely with the best in Europe, including Felix Jaehn, Sam Smith, Klangkarusell and many others, also worked with Mikolas on his latest single, Lie to Me.

Music video

Live performance

Lyrics of Lie To Me

Oh oh she a good girl at home but
Her skirt goes up like Marilyn Monroe's
Papa likes the drama mama hotter then lava
She rocking high heels Prada her face like Madonna
By the way she moved got me making a puddle
Baby I already knew you would be nothing but a trouble
Damn it everybody knows she never loved for real
Honey bunny up all night wannabe couplegoals queen

I know you 'bop-whop-a-lu bop' on his wood bamboo
When you were still seeing me and well he didn't even knew hmm
But God damn it come and count to three now sit down GGY
I'm on fire

Come and lie to me
Lie to me oh baby come a little closer
Lie to me
Lie to me oh baby lean upon my shoulder
Lie to me
Get down on my body and love me like it was always meant to be
Now you love somebody new I always knew
So come and give it to me


When the beat dropped she dropped, dropped it like it's hot
And now without a second thought she got me doing what I'm not
Then it got heavy Mom I'm feeling home already
But steady plenty these greedies wanna eat my spaghetti
Then she got one of my friends
She got him dripping on wood
I know it hurt so bad but it feels so good
Quit sweet talking me now baby I don't give a damn
You should've thought about me back when I was your man

I know you 'bop-whop-a-lu bop' on his wood bamboo
When you were still seeing me and well he didn't even knew hmm
But God damn it come and count to three now sit down GGY
I'm on fire

Come and lie to me
Lie to me oh baby come a little closer
Lie to me
Lie to me oh baby lean upon my shoulder
Lie to me
Get down on my body and love me like it was always meant to be
Now you love somebody new I always knew
So come and give it to me

You know I like it
When you lie lie lie
You look so good
When you lie lie lie
Set my camel in the mood
When you lie
When you lie

Come and lie to me
Lie to me oh baby come a little closer
Lie to me
Lie to me oh baby lean upon my shoulder
Lie to me
Get down on my body and love me like it was always meant to be
Now you love somebody new I always knew
So come and give it to me