Artist Michael Bundi: How a troubled past has shaped him, and inspired a reflective, heart-tagging release dabbed – Favour (Video)

What inspires you?

A deity? Fancy heroes in flowing capes? Inspiration coaches with catchy, flowery word play?

Heroes walk amongst us, unseen.

The journey towards self-actualization is riddled with uncertainty. Challenging scenarios will crop up – drive and focus is divided.

Its harder, still, for creatives whose crawl from obscurity to the limelight is filled with pitfalls.

This is an inspiring story of a gifted artist whose passion for arts and music bit hard.

Have you had a walk in the rain, with the furious wind pushing against your chest, heavy stinging rain drops on slapping your face? This is close.

Artist Michael BunDi.

Up close, Michael is laid-back, soft spoken. Kind of reminds you of your little brother. As suffers most creatives, he doesn’t talk much.

Like a duck waltz silently in a pond, yet furiously paddling beneath – creatives will be calm, inner battles suppressed.

This is a lad gifted with the rare artistic combo of a singer’s voice and instrument proficiency. He’s skilled in music production, and built his own studio.

Talking of battles, Michael has had quite a handful. While Michael was born into a family with a musical figure head (his father is a singer and music teacher), society wouldn’t bend backwards to understand his passion for music.

This meant a troubled childhood, changing schools often, et al. At some point Michael fell into depression, and toyed with suicidal thoughts.

Why does Michael spell his other name with an upper case letter smack in the middle, as in “….BunDi….”?

Luckily, with a touch of providence, Michael overcame this to fuel his passion in music. In a short time, he’s made a name in the region as a prolific Reggae artist.

He’s since released a string of hits, but what has made Michael straddle the reggae scene like a colossus are his iconic covers.

If you doesn’t live in a cave, you’ve certainly listened to his reggae cover for Baby Love, originally done by Otile Brown. That garnered an astonishing 1.7m views!

The bummer with covers, though, is that original artists always monetize the covers, thus grabbing all YouTube revenue. Worse, they issue copy strikes – again, not a good thing in music.

Michael has decried this (in)justice and has since teamed up with progressive management to concentrate fully on own compositions.

Since, Michael has featured Zzero Sufuri to release Wisdom, a catchy reggae jam.

In a bid to bid riddance (excuse the pun) to a difficult past, Michael is back with a poetic, emotion-provoking release – FAVOUR.

Michael says Favour is ‘…like a prayer to me…’, and it is. Its deep, reflective and tags at the strings of your heart.

They say a man comes out stronger at the other end of the tunnel, and Favour defines Michael’s burst into the sunshine.

There’s loads to sample from Michael Bundi’s versatile list – he boasts of over 500 releases! For a glimpse to his profile: click here, or subscribe on YouTube.

This is a pathway to Favour, watch and give your two-cent worth about it.