Michael Brun Releases Telemundo World Cup Anthem ‘Positivo’ with J. Balvin + Announces Bayo Live Tour
Bringing Sounds of Haiti to Orlando (Jun 08), New York (Jun 15), Washington D.C. (Jun 16), Montreal (Jun 22), and Boston (Jun 23)
Listen to ‘Positivo’ here: https://spoti.fi/2w1A7cx
Tickets on sale Friday (5/4) at 10am ET here: michaelbrun.com
Local Pre-sale begins Thursday (5/3) at 10am ET
At the Billboard Latin Music Awards last Friday (4/27), Telemundo Deportes announced that J. Balvin and Michael Brun’s collaboration ‘Positivo’ would serve as the official song for the network’s coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. Today, the track is released worldwide.
The song will be used across Telemundo, Universo and all Telemundo Deportes digital platforms.
Brun also announced today that he will tour his Bayo event series this June across the East Coast. Brun debuted Bayo with a sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in November. Bayo means “to give” in Haitian Creole, and is based off the impromptu street parties, typically soundtracked by mobile sound-systems, and the traditional rhythms of Haitian RaRa. These parties are essential to Haitian culture, providing an infrastructure that allows music to be heard and bubble up, artists a platform to DJ and perform, and a traditional gathering point for communities to come together and dance.
Bayo will transform the venues with the sounds and sights of Brun’s homeland. Crickets, birds and street sounds will move attendees out of North America, Haitian street art and bespoke production will set a scene, before the boom of Haitian bass puts you in Port au Prince.
Bayo will also host a line-up of contemporary Haitian artists curated by Brun. These include Haiti’s pop sensation J Perry, guitarist and soul artist Paul Beaubrun and ‘Rara Tech’ pioneer Gardy Girault.
The last twelve months have been a whirlwind for Michael Brun becoming the first non-Jazz performer to close the Haitian Jazz Festival in Port-au-Prince, remixing and collaborating with the likes of Maxwell, Fletcher, One Republic, and racking up millions of plays and curating the first national playlist on Spotify, ‘Haitian Heat’.