Michaël Brun

[4][9][10] He attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana[3] and then Davidson College in North Carolina as a pre-med student, while continuing to work on his music production.

[11] Primarily styled as progressive house, Brun released "Dawn," on Dutch DJ Hardwell's Revealed Recordings on December 21, 2011.

[3] Around that time, he started performing at major events including Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival, and decided to take a hiatus from medical school.

Brun released his debut EP Gravity in September 2013, which reached number 2 on the Beatport charts.

[16] In 2015 he performed at clubs including Create (Los Angeles), Temple (San Francisco), Union Nightclub (Toronto), and Story (Miami), and also appeared at the Billboard Hot 100 Festival.

[28] In 2018, as part of collaborations with artists from around the world to bring Haitian sounds into the mainstream, he released the single "Positivo" with Latin singer J Balvin.

[4] It was the theme song for Telemundo's 2018 FIFA World Cup coverage, and as of March 2019, has over 12 million views on YouTube.

[29][30] In 2017, Brun began experimenting with songs that would bridge the gap between Nigerian afrobeat and Haitian music.

[5] The nine-track album features collaborations with artists including Major Lazer, Win Butler and Regine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, J. Perry, Eddy François, and BélO.

[10] Brun puts on an annual Haitian block party-style tour called Bayo, with the third edition taking place in 10 North American cities in 2019.

[32] On April 4, 2023, Astralwerks, an American record label owned by Universal Music Group, announced it had signed Brun.

Brun on New Year's Day 2015