"The music is smooth and uplifting. Reminds you of a sunny Sunday afternoon. This artist is definitely one to watch!"  PC Bryant

Composer, songwriter, and musician Michael Haggins does it all. His laid back yet funky style entices the listener to surrender to his special brand of smooth funk and jazzy arrangements. Michael is a native of Pasadena, California, and began playing saxophone, drums, and electric bass during elementary school.

Michael's influences include Sly and the Family Stone, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, George Benson, Grover Washington, Jr., various Motown artists, and many others. Michael is the nephew of the late Hall of Fame drummer, "Al Duncan," who, as one of the world's most recorded blues/jazz drummers in the 1950s, appeared on labels such as Vee-Jay and Chess, and recorded with Count Basie, Mahalia Jackson, Big Joe Turner, and many other greats.

Continuing that legacy, Michael hit the Smooth Jazz world with his hit debut CD, Daybreak. R&R-reporting radio and television stations are giving the CD great airplay and the CD is selling well around the world. Michael's full band, the Michael Haggins Group, recently performed by invitation at the 2006 Playboy Jazz Festival Community Event Series in the world-famous Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Daybreak was the top seller at the three-day venue, according to merchandising sources, outselling even the headliners.

Michael's music gently guides us along a luminous musical journey and leaves us hungry for the next destination.

Michael Haggins currently records for the Indie label Cuate Records Corp.