Mike Posner Performing at Bonaventure;Tickets are Available Starting Thursday

Pop and hip-hop singer and songwriter Mike Posner will perform in concert at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, at St. Bonaventure University’s Reilly Center Arena. The doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the general public are $15 and go on sale Thursday, March 10. Tickets for St. Bonaventure students, faculty and staff are $10 each (limit one per SBU ID) and go on sale Wednesday, March 9.

Posner launched his career at Duke University, where he balanced his undergraduate studies in sociology and business with his interest in writing and performing music. He began making melodic pop-rap songs for the college crowd and he compiled several mixtapes, the first of which, “A Matter of Time,” climbed to No. 1 on iTunesU in the summer of 2009.

Posner signed with J Records the summer after completing his junior year at Duke. He returned to school for his senior year, and that fall released his second mixtape, “One Foot Out the Door,” which racked up 25,000 downloads in its first week and also claimed the No. 1 spot on iTunesU.

He graduated in December 2009 with a 3.59 GPA and walked with his fellow graduates at Duke’s Commencement in May of 2010, a day after sharing the bill with Drake at a concert in Los Angeles.

Posner released his full-length debut album, “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” in the summer of 2010. It features “Cooler Than Me,” a breezy ode to a former crush that became a worldwide hit, selling more than 1 million copies.

Posner has collaborated with a number of popular artists including Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars, Wale, Big Sean, Bun B, We The Kings, Saigon and One Be Lo. His just-released radio mix of “Bow Chicka Wow Wow,” a song from “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” includes a new verse from Lil Wayne.

His national television appearances include “Last Call with Carson Daly,” “Live with Regis and Kelly,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

Tickets for the St. Bonaventure concert may be purchased at the Reilly Center Ticket Office from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, or online at www.tickets.com.

The concert is being presented by St. Bonaventure’s Campus Activities Board, the Student Government Association, and the Damietta Center.

For more information, go to www.sbu.edu/cab.