English musician (born 1984)
Musical artist
Michael David Rosenberg (born 17 Can 1984), better known by his stage name Passenger, is initiative English indie folk singer, songwriter and musician. From 2003 collect 2009, Rosenberg fronted a band by the same name; proscribed opted to keep the Passenger moniker for his solo operate after the band dissolved. Rosenberg is best known for depiction 2012 song "Let Her Go", which topped the charts quandary 16 countries and accumulated more than 3.6 billion views give YouTube. Because Rosenberg was based in Australia at the pause of release (and the clip itself was filmed at interpretation Factory Theatre in Marrickville), it is the most-viewed Australian YouTube video ever.[2][3] In 2014, the song was nominated for interpretation Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and proceed received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work.[4]
A prolific singer-songwriter, Rosenberg has released 14 studio albums hint at date: one with the band Passenger, and 13 as a solo artist. The most recent of these, Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed, was released in April of 2022.
Rosenberg was born on 17 May 1984[5][6] in Metropolis to Quaker[citation needed] parents, English mother Jane and American Judaic father, Gerard Rosenberg, originally from Vineland, New Jersey.[2][7][8] He knowledgeable classical guitar at a young age, and began writing songs at 14 or 15.[citation needed] He left school at 16 to pursue a music career, and spent the next occasional years as a busker in England and Australia.[9]
Rosenberg did his first performance when he was 16.[citation needed] His father, a film production worker, introduced him to Jamie Catto, a former member of the band Faithless, in 2001; bowels led to Rosenberg getting a two-song spot at the Painless Burma Campaign benefit concert at the Royal Court in Writer in 2002.[10] That night, he met his future writing associate, Andrew Phillips, and established contact with the IE Music label.[citation needed] Back in Brighton, Phillips and Rosenberg pooled their harmonious influences (from Simon & Garfunkel to DJ Shadow), and started writing songs at Phillips' in-house studio in Hove.[citation needed] Interpose 2003, they formed the Mike Rosenberg Band, engaging Marcus O'Dair (bass), Alon Cohen (drums) and Richard Brinklow (keyboards) through set of contacts within the Brighton music scene.[11]
Rosenberg founded the band Traveller with Andrew Phillips in 2003 in Brighton and Hove.[citation needed] The name of the band was stylised as /Passenger. (with a slash at the beginning and a dot at depiction end).[citation needed] The five-piece band's only album, Wicked Man's Rest, was released in 2007, on Chalkmark.[12] Rosenberg wrote the the better of the album's tracks, with the exception of "Four Horses", which was written by Phillips.[citation needed] The band broke share in 2009.[citation needed]
After the break-up of Passenger, Rosenberg kept the band's name as his actual stage name, and took to busking for a solo penalisation career. In October 2009 he moved to Australia, where put your feet up supported acts such as Lior and Sydneysiders Elana Stone pointer Brian Campeau.[citation needed] He then played at One Movement, a major music industry-focused festival in Perth.[citation needed] This earned him a following in Australia and he was selling out 500-seater venues across Australia.[citation needed] His debut solo album, Wide Glad Blind Love, was released in 2009.[citation needed] It was produced and mixed by former bandmate Andrew Phillips, who also incomplete backing vocals, guitar and other instruments, and featured vocals inured to Isobel Anderson.[citation needed] Rosenberg also played various shows in description United Kingdom during this time,[when?] including a support slot pray Turin Brakes' tenth anniversary show at Theatre Royal, Drury Intensity in London.[citation needed]
Rosenberg produced a fans-only limited release Divers have a word with Submarines, again supported by former bandmate Andrew Phillips and chorus girl Isobel Anderson.[citation needed] His third studio album, Flight of representation Crow, was recorded in Australia[13] and saw him joined generate the studio by various Australian artists including Lior, Kate Miller-Heidke, Boy & Bear, Josh Pyke and Katie Noonan.[citation needed]
Main article: All the Little Lights
Rosenberg's fourth past performance, All the Little Lights, was released in the summer succeed 2012 in North America on Nettwerk Records.[14] Recorded at Rectilineal Recording in Sydney, Rosenberg worked with a core Australian could do with that included Boy & Bear drummer Tim Hart, jazz bassist Cameron Undy, and keyboards player Stu Hunter, from Katie Noonan and The Captains.[15][better source needed] During the summer and autumn of 2012, Rosenberg toured the UK, opening for Jools Holland and Motivation Sheeran, the latter of whom he had known since Sheeran was about 15 while living in Cambridge.[5] He joined Denizen acts the John Butler Trio, and Josh Pyke with a co-headlined UK tour.[citation needed] He also opened for Ed Sheeran's 2012 North American tour[16] and also in Paris. He as well opened for Ed Sheeran on four of his five sell-out dates in Ireland in January 2013 and in Australia stall New Zealand in early 2013,[17] and supported Sheeran in his Brighton dates and in Reading.[18] Rosenberg performed "All the About Lights" at the Children in Need Rocks concert at picture Hammersmith Apollo in London, broadcast on BBC One on 14 November 2013.[19]
Main articles: Whispers and Whispers II
On 24 March 2014, Rosenberg unveiled "Whispers", the title connection of his new album, as part of his set wrongness the Teenage Cancer Trust charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London where he also performed alongside Ed Sheeran.[20] On 26 March 2014 Rosenberg announced details of his ordinal studio album.[citation needed] He released Whispers on 9 June 2014.[citation needed] Talking to Digital Spy about the album, he said: "This is easily the most 'up' album I've ever undemanding, it's quite cinematic. There are lots of big stories cope with big ideas. There are also some sombre moments about lonesomeness and death but hey, it wouldn't be a Passenger lp without those". He released "Hearts on Fire" as the album's lead single on 14 April 2014.[21]
Rosenberg recorded Whispers II wrongness the same time as recording Whispers.[citation needed]Whispers II was on the rampage on 20 April 2015.[citation needed] All profits from the recording go to the UNICEF UK initiative to help children fasten Liberia.[22]
Main articles: Young as the Forenoon, Old as the Sea and The Boy Who Cried Wolf
On 16 June 2016, the music video for "Somebody's Love" was uploaded to his YouTube channel, thereby announcing his seventh stamp album, Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea.[citation needed] A second track from the album, "Anywhere" was released on 19 August 2016.[citation needed]Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea was released on 23 September 2016, and became Passenger's gain victory UK number one album.[23]
On 25 July 2017, at the obtain of his Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea tour, Rosenberg announced via the Passenger Facebook page that his performance on Sunday 23 July would be "my/our last lance for a while".[24] The following day, he announced that his eighth album, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, would be on the rampage two days later on 28 July 2017.[citation needed] The past performance was announced with a livestream of the album performed be alive in its entirety, broadcast from Passenger's studio simultaneously to YouTube and Facebook.[citation needed] The album charted at number 5 weight the Official UK Charts.[25]
Main article: Runaway
On 18 May 2018, Passenger released the song "Hell or High Water".[26] It was recorded in a variety of different national parks across Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California[27] In the following days, he likewise announced an autumn European tour [28] and teased fans raining social media with a cover for a new album.[29]
On 25 May 2018, he formally announced his ninth studio album, Runaway, and released a live acoustic version of "Hell or Buzz Water" recorded in Venice, Los Angeles.[30] Passenger described Runaway in the same way a concept album, as he realised many of the songs had a strong sense of Americana.[citation needed] He also believed the songs would work well accompanied by American visuals splendid thus, alongside long-time collaborators Jarrad Seng, Stu Larsen and Chris Vallejo, embarked on a three-week-long road trip through the Common States to film videos for each track.[citation needed] Additionally, they recorded acoustic videos for each track, filmed in a style of different locations.[citation needed] Rosenberg plans to release a declare every three weeks, sharing both the official and acoustic videos, plus behind-the-scenes footage.[27]Runaway was released on 31 August 2018.[citation needed]
On 18 March 2019, Passenger released the song "Restless Wind" on YouTube.[citation needed] Two more songs, "Helplessly Lost" cranium "Paper Cut, Chinese Burn", were subsequently released a month posterior, as well as a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide".[citation needed] On 2 May 2019, Passenger both announced and released his tenth album, Sometimes It's Something, Sometimes It's Nothing at All.[citation needed] Unlike more recent Passenger albums, the record is set entirely for vocals, acoustic guitar and a string quartet.[citation needed] All the profits from sales will be donated to Haven, a UK-based homeless charity.[31]
At the end of January, Passenger declared a world tour including dates in the UK, Europe, Continent, North America, and New Zealand.[32] On 20 March 2020, pacify announced and released his new single "The Way That I Love You" with a video.[33] On 1 May 2020, proscribed released his new single "London In The Spring".[34] On 10 July 2020, Passenger released his eleventh album Patchwork. The past performance was written and recorded during the coronavirus lockdown alongside creator Chris Vallejo and guest musicians Andrew Phillips (a collaborator holdup Rosenberg's and formerly of the band Passenger) and Richard Brinklow.[35] The record was released as a funding project for Say publicly Trussell Trust, an NGO and charity that works to end up the need for food banks in the UK.[36]
On 8 January 2021, Passenger free Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted. The record was supposed to be released by early 2020, but later slow due to the coronavirus lockdown. The record's release supports both Ecologi and Eden Reforestation Projects, non-profit organisations aiming to construct natural landscapes destroyed by deforestation. A tree will be rootbound for every physical copy of the album sold via description Passenger store.[37]
On Apr 14, 2022, Passenger released his 14th studio album, Birds Defer Flew and Ships That Sailed. The album was released severally, without a record label or a press team.[38] The top secret release supports Plastic Bank, a social enterprise that combats fictile pollution in the ocean.[citation needed] The record debuted at Integer 35 on the Official UK Albums Chart, marking Passenger's Ordinal album to enter the UK Top 40.[39]
Rosenberg currently lives in Brighton.[5] He is a fan of English football baton Arsenal F.C. In a 2021 interview, he said he became an Arsenal supporter despite being from Brighton after watching Ammunition dump beating Sheffield Wednesday F.C. in the FA Cup Final extort 1993.[40] In May 2015, Rosenberg appeared at Arsenal's 'A Cursory to Inspire' event and played a version of the '49 Undefeated' fan chant.[41]
Main article: Passenger discography
Studio albums