Career 2008–2010: ''31 Minutes to Takeoff''Posner started out as a record producer, working on some tracks with his hometown friend Big Sean.
Posner's father, Jon, was a criminal defense lawyer who died on Januhis mother is Roberta Henrion and his sister, Emily Henrion Posner, is a civil rights attorney. He attended Duke University, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Posner went to Bingham Farms Elementary School, Berkshire Middle School and graduated from Groves High School, where he ran varsity track and cross-country. His father was Jewish and his mother is Catholic. He was raised in Southfield, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit. Early lifeMichael Posner was born on February 12, 1988, in Detroit, Michigan. He completed the journey on October 18, 2019, after surviving a rattlesnake bite in August 2019 in Colorado. On April 15, 2019, Posner started to walk across the continental United States, from New Jersey to California. Posner is also a member of the alternative hip-hop and R&B duo Mansionz with Matthew Musto. In March 2017, he released his first book of poetry, Tear Drops & Balloons. He has written songs for a great number of fellow artists. A remix of his 2015 single "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" from the album peaked in the top 10 on the charts in 27 countries around the world, including hitting number one in many and the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. In 2016 he released his second album, At Night, Alone. The album includes the US Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single "Cooler than Me" as well as the top 20 single "Please Don't Go". Posner released his debut album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, on August 10, 2010. Michael Robert Henrion Posner is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, poet, and record producer.