![]() ![]() Recorded at Linear Recording in Sydney, Rosenberg worked with a core Australian band that included Boy & Bear drummer Tim Hart, jazz bassist Cameron Undy, and keyboards player Stu Hunter, from Katie Noonan and The Captains. Rosenberg's fourth album, All the Little Lights, was released in the summer of 2012 in North America on Nettwerk Records. His third studio album, Flight of the Crow, was recorded in Australia and saw him joined in the studio by various Australian independent musical talents including Lior, Kate Miller-Heidke, Boy & Bear, Josh Pyke and Katie Noonan. Rosenberg produced a fans-only limited release Divers and Submarines, again supported by former bandmate Andrew Phillips and vocalist Isobel Anderson. Rosenberg also played various shows in the United Kingdom during this time, including a support slot for Turin Brakes' tenth anniversary show at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. It was produced and mixed by former bandmate Andrew Phillips, who also provided backing vocals, and played guitar and other instruments, and featured vocals by Isobel Anderson. ![]() His debut solo album, Wide Eyes Blind Love, was released in 2009. This earned him a following in Australia and he was selling out 500-seater venues across Australia. He then played at One Movement, a major music industry-focused festival in Perth. In October 2009 he went to Australia, where he supported acts such as Lior and Sydneysiders Elana Stone and Brian Campeau. 2009–2010: Solo career and Wide Eyes Blind Love, Divers and Submarines and Flight of the Crow Īfter the break-up of Passenger, Rosenberg kept the band's name as his personal stage name, and took to busking for a solo music career. Rosenberg wrote the majority of the album's tracks, with the exception of "Four Horses", which was written by Phillips. The five-person band's only album, Wicked Man's Rest, was released in 2007, on Chalkmark. (with a slash at the beginning and a dot at the end). ![]() The name of the band was stylised as /Passenger. Rosenberg founded the band Passenger with Andrew Phillips in 2003 in Brighton and Hove. In 2003, they formed the Mike Rosenberg Band, engaging Marcus O’Dair (bass), Alon Cohen (drums) and Richard Brinklow (keyboards) through connections within the Brighton music scene. Back in Brighton, Phillips and Rosenberg pooled their musical influences (from Simon & Garfunkel to DJ Shadow), and started writing songs at Phillips’ in-house studio in Hove. That night, he met his future writing partner, Andrew Phillips, and established contact with the IE Music label. His father, a film production worker, introduced him to Jamie Catto, a former member of the band Faithless, in 2001 it led to Rosenberg getting a two-song spot at the Free Burma Campaign benefit concert at the Royal Court in London in 2002. Rosenberg did his first performance when he was 16. He left school at 16 to pursue a music career, and spent the next few years as a busker in England and Australia. He learned classical guitar at a young age, and began writing songs at 14 or 15. Rosenberg was born on in Brighton to Quaker parents, English mother Jane and American Jewish father, Gerard Rosenberg, originally from Vineland, New Jersey. In 2014, the song was nominated for the Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work. In 2012, he released the hit song " Let Her Go", which topped the charts in 16 countries and accumulated more than 3.3 billion views on YouTube it is the most-viewed Australian YouTube video of all time. Previously the main vocalist and songwriter of Passenger, Rosenberg opted to keep the band's name for his solo work after the band dissolved in 2009. Michael David Rosenberg (born ), better known by his stage name Passenger, is an English singer-songwriter and musician. ![]()
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