It's been such an amazing experience to see the crowds and then also just to see the artist support too. It must be surreal and also just really powerful to share Bayo outside of Haiti to such big crowds. So it's crazy how it's continued to evolve and just become this way bigger concept than I thought it would be. And then it just went from like 50 people to like 500 people to 1,000 to now we sold over 10,000 tickets for the tour in the last year. When I brought it to the States, I did it in Miami first at the Little Haiti Cultural Center and then I did the first New York show in Brooklyn.
It was super small, but just, it was more about the sound and the vibe, but it grew. So we did that in 2016 and it started out with 50 people, if that. I would just set up speakers or find a spot, it would be in the street sometimes, sometimes it would be in a venue, but we would just set up, and I'd invite all these different artists around Haiti to come and perform and it just a complete surprise.
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Yeah, so it started out as literally a free block party in and around Haiti. You did the Bayo tour first in 2016 and then again this past year, correct? It was just over the course of two years of touring, finding those pockets where I could come up with something that would help tell that story. And I had these moments where I was like, I want to transition from an African song to a Haitian song or Caribbean song to a Latin song, and I felt like with the album it was an opportunity to create those transition moments where it showed the links between those different cultures. And I realized that they were way more similar than I ever initially thought.
So I was doing that tour, and that incorporated Haitian sounds but then also in my sets and in the actual live performance I'd play Latin music and I'd be playing African music. The concept for that was just to create a showcase and a presentation of Haiti and Haitian sounds and culture for the whole world to be able to learn something new, hopefully, and then maybe find a new genre of music or artist that they like a lot. It's called the Bayo tour "bayo" in Creole means give it to them, or to give. I think part of the concept for this came from the tour that I was doing. Where did the idea for the project start? And how did it grow and shift as you began working on the songs and working with different collaborators?
So just being able to take all these different experiences from the last eight years of touring and collaborations with all these different types of people around the world, and then also bringing my culture, Haitian culture, and sounds in a really unique way to this project, I felt like this was the moment to do it and it's just representative of that whole journey. I think just the fact that I've been making music now for coming into eight years professionally, and this is my first album project that I've ever done. What are you most looking forward to about sharing it with the world? He also tells the story of how he serendipitously met one of his mentors, Colombian reggaetón star, J Balvin, and what he learned in working with him, among other topics. That's this whole mission that I'm working on, to get my culture and my music heard," Brun told the Recording Academy in a recent phone interview that dove deep into the new album and his vision. "Those kinds of moments with the music that I grew up and to see artists that I really love and support have this platform, I think that's my personal favorite. While it is his first full-length, Brun has been releasing tracks since he was in college, then with a more EDM during its early '10s boom.īrun also aims to recreate the sound and liveliness of the block parties he used to throw back home to new audiences his hugely successful North American Bayo 2019 tour, which he recently wrapped, featured a selection of Haitian artists and more special guests in every city. On the project, he collabed with more than a dozen featured artists for its nine upbeat, joyful tracks, weaving in traditional Haitian Rara and Konpa sounds with hip-hop, reggaetón, house and other danceable beats in a beautiful sonic tapestry. His new debut album, LOKAL, which dropped today, does just that.
Haitian DJ/producer Michael Brunmay just be 27, but he is already focused on his musical legacy: to serve his life-long vision of being able to give back to his community in a meaningful way. With his music, he wants to world to also get to know and love the vibrant sounds of his home country, and to showcase other Haitian and global artists in the process.
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