Passenger (Singer)

Michael David Rosenberg better known as Passenger is a British folk rock-singer who founded a band by the name of Passenger. The band only released one album  "Wicked Man's Rest" before breaking up. It was then that he adopted the stage name of Passenger.

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2003–2009: Passenger

Main article: Passenger (British band)

Mike Rosenberg had started performing at the age of 16. He founded Passenger with Andrew Phillips in 2003 in Brighton and Hove. The five-person band's debut and only album, Wicked Man's Rest, was released in 2007 on Chalkmark. Rosenberg wrote the majority of the album's tracks, with the exception of "Four Horses", which was written by Phillips. The band broke up in 2009.

2009: Solo career and Wide Eyes Blind Love

After the break-up of Passenger, Rosenberg kept the stage-name Passenger and took to busking for a solo music career. He first took his act in October 2009 to Australia where he supported acts like Lior and Sydneysiders Elana Stone and Brian Campeau, and then played One Movement, a major music industry-focus festival in Perth. This earned him a big following in Australia and was selling out 500-seater venues across Australia. His debut solo album Wide Eyes Blind Love, was released in 2009.

2010: Flight of the Crow

The follow-up 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, in addition to a fans-only limited release Divers and Submarines.

2012–Present : All The Little Lights

On his next album, recorded at Sydney's Linear Recording, Rosenberg was joined once again by a core Australian band that included Boy & Bear drummer Tim Hart, jazz bassist Cameron Undy, and keyboards player Stu Hunter, from Katie Noonan & The Captains. During the summer and autumn of 2012, Passenger toured around the UK, opening for Jools Holland, Ed Sheeran and joined Australian acts the John Butler Trio, and Josh Pyke with a co-headlined UK tour. He also opened for Ed Sheeran's 2012 North American tour  and also in Paris. All The Little Lights was released in summer of 2012 in North America on Nettwerk Records. He also opened for Ed Sheeran on his four out of five sell out dates in Ireland in January 2013 and in Australia and New Zealand in early 2013,and supported Sheeran in his Brighton dates