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Michael Brun could be said to be a songbird amongst humans, traveling to the popping reaches of the globe with a lighter than air appeal, sharing his tingly jams with those of open ears. But like songbirds, at the end of a no doubt exhausting cycle, the DJ and producer migrates back to his home in the Caribbean country of Haiti, a place where he has always been surrounded by music.
“I grew up in Haiti, in Port-au-Prince,” Brun shares from Miami, where he’s popped up in—you guessed it, Little Haiti—for his photoshoot, smiling as he recounts his adolescence, “and both of my parents were involved with music somehow. My dad had a band and my mom played piano and violin. We had a studio in the house and we had a piano, but I just assumed those were normal things that most people had in their house.”
Taking after his father, Brun’s music combines elements of contemporary Haitian melodies met with electronic grooves. “He loved fusing things,” recalls Brun, as he wanders Little Haiti’s Cultural Center, of his musical mentor, “he loved bringing Haitian sounds into world sounds, and I would realize, like 20 years later, when I started really digging into my career, that that’s something I wanted to do as well. I wanted to take the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America, and then fuse it with global sounds like electronic music.” This combination of sounds has given Brun a market edge and appeal all his own. The list of accomplishments goes on and on, highlighted with a “Best Urban Music” Grammy win for his work on J. Balvin’s Colores album in 2020, his sold-out 2019 Bayo (“to give” in Haitian Creole) tour that he put together and produced, his performance at Coachella, and his collaborative song “Positivo” with J. Balvin that played as the theme song for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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