Mika has independent roots across cultures: Japanese (美香 — "beautiful fragrance"); Finnish (a short form of Mikael / Michael); and Hebrew (מיכה — "Who is like God," feminine of Micah). **Mika Brzezinski (born 1967)** — **American journalist; co-host of MSNBC's *Morning Joe* since 2007 with husband Joe Scarborough — the longest-running morning cable-news program in US television history; daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, US National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)**. **Author of *Knowing Your Value* (2011), *Grow Your Value* (2015), and the *Know Your Value* franchise — a women's professional-development platform that has hosted summits in 50+ US cities**. **Brzezinski's coverage of the 2020 election cycle won her a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism**. **Mika** (the male British-Lebanese singer, born 1983) — *Grace Kelly* (2007). **Mika Hakkinen** is male (Finnish F1 champion). **Mika Newton** — Ukrainian singer.
Featured throughout 21st-century American journalism.
Mika reduces to nine — the number of Morning Joe.