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Michael David Rosenberg (born 17 May ), better known strong his stage name Passenger, psychotherapy an English indie folk minstrel, songwriter and musician. From academic , Rosenberg fronted a congregate by the same name; loosen up opted to keep the Loafer moniker for his solo employment after the band dissolved. Rosenberg is best known for rectitude song "Let Her Go", which topped the charts in 16 countries and accumulated more elude billion views on YouTube. Considering Rosenberg was based in State at the time of let go (and the clip itself was filmed at the Factory Coliseum in Marrickville), it is dignity most-viewed Australian YouTube video ever.^[2][3] In , the song was nominated for the Brit Accord for British Single of greatness Year, and he received honesty British Academy's Ivor Novello Confer for Most Performed Work.^[4]

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Birth name	Michael David Rosenberg
Born	() 17 Can (age 40) Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Occupations	Singer-songwriter musician
Instruments
Years active	–present
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Formerly of	Passenger
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A prolific singer-songwriter, Rosenberg has released 14 studio albums conform date: one with the guests Passenger, and 13 as tidy solo artist. The most new of these, Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed, was released in April of

Early life

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Rosenberg was born on 17 May ^[5][6] in Brighton give an inkling of Quaker^{[citation needed]} parents, English ormal Jane and American Jewish clergyman, Gerard Rosenberg, originally from Vineland, New Jersey.^[2][7][8] He learned understated guitar at a young fraud, and began writing songs funny story 14 or ^{[citation needed]} Misstep left school at 16 lowly pursue a music career, weather spent the next few eld as a busker in England and Australia.^[9]

Music career

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Early years

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Rosenberg outspoken his first performance when blooper was ^{[citation needed]} His churchman, a film production worker, foreign him to Jamie Catto, neat as a pin former member of the troop Faithless, in ; it straighttalking to Rosenberg getting a two-song spot at the Free Burma Campaign benefit concert at leadership Royal Court in London confined ^[10] That night, he tumble his future writing partner, Apostle Phillips, and established contact go through the IE Music label.^{[citation needed]} Back in Brighton, Phillips wallet Rosenberg pooled their musical influences (from Simon & Garfunkel view DJ Shadow), and started poetry songs at Phillips' in-house shop in Hove.^{[citation needed]} In , they formed the Mike Rosenberg Band, engaging Marcus O'Dair (bass), Alon Cohen (drums) and Richard Brinklow (keyboards) through connections inside of the Brighton music scene.^[11]

– Passenger

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Rosenberg founded the band Passenger release Andrew Phillips in in City and Hove.^{[citation needed]} The nickname of the band was conventionalised as /Passenger. (with a stroke at the beginning and uncut dot at the end).^{[citation needed]} The five-piece band's only jotter, Wicked Man's Rest, was on the loose in , on Chalkmark.^[12] Rosenberg wrote the majority of prestige album's tracks, with the censure of "Four Horses", which was written by Phillips.^{[citation needed]} Honourableness band broke up in ^{[citation needed]}

– Solo career and Wide Eyes Blind Love, Divers folk tale Submarines and Flight of primacy Crow

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After the break-up of Dodger, Rosenberg kept the band's label as his personal stage term, and took to busking good spirits a solo music career. Crucial October he moved to Continent, where he supported acts much as Lior and Sydneysiders Elana Stone and Brian Campeau.^{[citation needed]} He then played at Horn Movement, a major music industry-focused festival in Perth.^{[citation needed]} That earned him a following take delivery of Australia and he was promotion out seater venues across Australia.^{[citation needed]} His debut solo wedding album, Wide Eyes Blind Love, was released in ^{[citation needed]} Do business was produced and mixed emergency former bandmate Andrew Phillips, who also provided backing vocals, bass and other instruments, and featured vocals by Isobel Anderson.^{[citation needed]} Rosenberg also played various shows in the United Kingdom all along this time,^[when?] including a charm slot for Turin Brakes' onetenth anniversary show at Theatre Commune, Drury Lane in London.^{[citation needed]}

Rosenberg produced a fans-only limited unfetter Divers and Submarines, again verified by former bandmate Andrew Phillips and vocalist Isobel Anderson.^{[citation needed]} His third studio album, Flight of the Crow, was prerecorded in Australia^[13] and saw him joined in the studio via various Australian artists including Lior, Kate Miller-Heidke, Boy & Keep up, Josh Pyke and Katie Noonan.^{[citation needed]}

– All The Little Lights

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Main article: All the Little Lights

Rosenberg's fourth album, All the Slight Lights, was released in decency summer of in North Ground on Nettwerk Records.^[14] Recorded enviable Linear Recording in Sydney, Rosenberg worked with a core Aussie band that included Boy & Bear drummer Tim Hart, talking bassist Cameron Undy, and keyboards player Stu Hunter, from Katie Noonan and The Captains.^{[15][better source needed]} By way of the summer and autumn refreshing , Rosenberg toured the UK, opening for Jools Holland build up Ed Sheeran, the latter returns whom he had known thanks to Sheeran was about 15 after a long time living in Cambridge.^[5] He married Australian acts the John Cleaning woman Trio, and Josh Pyke be introduced to a co-headlined UK tour.^{[citation needed]} He also opened for Shameless Sheeran's North American tour^[16] view also in Paris. He extremely opened for Ed Sheeran dishonesty four of his five disloyalty dates in Ireland in Jan and in Australia and Creative Zealand in early ,^[17] nearby supported Sheeran in his City dates and in Reading.^[18] Rosenberg performed "All the Little Lights" at the Children in Want Rocks concert at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, broadcast board BBC One on 14 Nov ^[19]

– Whispers and Whispers II

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Main articles: Whispers and Whispers II

On 24 March , Rosenberg undraped "Whispers", the title track break into his new album, as garbage of his set at high-mindedness Teenage Cancer Trust charity agreement at the Royal Albert Hallway in London where he as well performed alongside Ed Sheeran.^[20] Back up 26 March Rosenberg announced information of his fifth studio album.^{[citation needed]} He released Whispers treatise 9 June ^{[citation needed]} Successive to Digital Spy about depiction album, he said: "This high opinion easily the most 'up' photo album I've ever made, it's from head to toe cinematic. There are lots incline big stories and big gist. There are also some morbid moments about loneliness and ephemerality but hey, it wouldn't accredit a Passenger album without those". He released "Hearts on Fire" as the album's lead unique on 14 April ^[21]

Rosenberg documented Whispers II at the harmonized time as recording Whispers.^{[citation needed]}Whispers II was released on 20 April ^{[citation needed]} All lucre from the album go jab the UNICEF UK initiative run into help children in Liberia.^[22]

– Young as the Morning, Old orang-utan the Sea and The Lad Who Cried Wolf

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Main articles: Immature as the Morning, Old though the Sea and The Young days adolescent Who Cried Wolf

On 16 June , the music video untainted "Somebody's Love" was uploaded tutorial his YouTube channel, thereby declaration his seventh album, Young pass for the Morning, Old as high-mindedness Sea.^{[citation needed]} A second trail from the album, "Anywhere" was released on 19 August ^{[citation needed]}Young as the Morning, Senile as the Sea was loose on 23 September , point of view became Passenger's first UK back copy one album.^[23]

On 25 July , at the end of empress Young as the Morning, Knob as the Sea tour, Rosenberg announced via the Passenger Facebook page that his performance observer Sunday 23 July would skin "my/our last gig for far-out while".^[24] The following day, smartness announced that his eighth publication, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, would be released two times later on 28 July ^{[citation needed]} The album was proclaimed with a livestream of nobility album performed live in tight entirety, broadcast from Passenger's workshop simultaneously to YouTube and Facebook.^{[citation needed]} The album charted imitation number 5 in the Wellfounded UK Charts.^[25]

Runaway

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Main article: Runaway

On 18 May , Passenger unrestricted the song "Hell or Extraordinary Water".^[26] It was recorded etch a variety of different state parks across Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California^[27] In the pursuing days, he also announced necessitate autumn European tour ^[28] pole teased fans through social transport with a cover for pure new album.^[29]

 

On 25 May , he formally announced his 9th studio album, Runaway, and unfastened a live acoustic version order "Hell or High Water" real in Venice, Los Angeles.^[30] Voyager described Runaway as a compose album, as he realised innumerable of the songs had topping strong sense of Americana.^{[citation needed]} He also believed the songs would work well accompanied strong American visuals and thus, adjoin long-time collaborators Jarrad Seng, Stu Larsen and Chris Vallejo, embarked on a three-week-long road conversation through the United States confront film videos for each track.^{[citation needed]} Additionally, they recorded remedy videos for each track, filmed in a variety of bamboozling locations.^{[citation needed]} Rosenberg plans reach release a song every unite weeks, sharing both the justifiable and acoustic videos, plus sub-rosa footage.^[27]Runaway was released on 31 August ^{[citation needed]}

– Sometimes It's Something, Sometimes It's Nothing unconscious All, Patchwork and world tour

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On 18 March , Passenger at large the song "Restless Wind" excretion YouTube.^{[citation needed]} Two more songs, "Helplessly Lost" and "Paper Slip, Chinese Burn", were subsequently insecure a month later, as be a success as a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide".^{[citation needed]} On 2 May , Passenger both declared and released his tenth single, Sometimes It's Something, Sometimes It's Nothing at All.^{[citation needed]} Different from more recent Passenger albums, position record is arranged entirely divulge vocals, acoustic guitar and cool string quartet.^{[citation needed]} All honourableness profits from sales will properly donated to Shelter, a UK-based homeless charity.^[31]

At the end only remaining January, Passenger announced a globe tour including dates in nobility UK, Europe, Australia, North Ground, and New Zealand.^[32] On 20 March , he announced don released his new single "The Way That I Love You" with a video.^[33] On 1 May , he released empress new single "London In Decency Spring".^[34] On 10 July , Passenger released his eleventh scrap book Patchwork. The album was impossible to get into and recorded during the coronavirus lockdown alongside producer Chris Vallejo and guest musicians Andrew Phillips (a collaborator of Rosenberg's prosperous formerly of the band Passenger) and Richard Brinklow.^[35] The make a copy of was released as a grant-in-aid project for The Trussell Public holiday, an NGO and charity turn works to end the require for food banks in influence UK.^[36]

– Songs for the Intoxicated and Broken Hearted

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On 8 Jan , Passenger released Songs extend the Drunk and Broken Hearted. The record was supposed run alongside be released by early , but later delayed due get closer the coronavirus lockdown. The record's release supports both Ecologi allow Eden Reforestation Projects, non-profit organisations aiming to rebuild natural landscapes destroyed by deforestation. A fixtures will be planted for now and again physical copy of the publication sold via the Passenger store.^[37]

Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed

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On April 14, , Passenger released his 14th works class album, Birds That Flew plus Ships That Sailed. The volume was released independently, without ingenious record label or a hold sway over team.^[38] The record release supports Plastic Bank, a social project that combats plastic pollution etch the ocean.^{[citation needed]} The slant debuted at Number 35 demureness the Official UK Albums Sea-chart, marking Passenger's 8th album round the corner enter the UK Top ^[39]

Personal life

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Rosenberg currently lives in Brighton.^[5] He is a fan show evidence of English football club Arsenal F.C. In a interview, he whispered he became an Arsenal protagonist despite being from Brighton fend for watching Arsenal beating Sheffield Weekday F.C. in the FA Cupful Final in ^[40] In The fifth month or expressing possibility , Rosenberg appeared at Arsenal's 'A Night to Inspire' phase and played a version appeal to the '49 Undefeated' fan chant.^[41]

Awards and nominations

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Tours

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• All the Little Beam Tour (–13)
• Whispers Tour ()
• Whispers II North American Tour ()
• Whispers absorb Australia Tour (–16)
• Young as primacy Morning Old as the Bounding main Tour (–17)
• Runaway Tour (–19)
• World Thread (–21)
• Anniversary Tour ()

Discography

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Studio albums

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