"If You Don’t Tell Your Own Story, Somebody Else Is Going to Tell It for You."

Michaël Brun is a Haitian DJ and record producer known for blending electronic music with traditional Haitian styles of song. His debut EP, Gravity, was released in 2013. Since then he has released two full length albums, Lokal on the Kid Coconut label and Fami Vol. 1 with Astralwerks. He became the first Haitian to play Miami’s Ultra Music Festival in 2014, and created, along with J Balvin, the single “Positivo” w which became Telemundo’s theme song for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In recent years, he has put on an annual Haitian block party-style tour called Bayo. For our last episode of 2025, he stopped by Notes from the World today to discuss his music, Haiti and its culture.