

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. His debut solo album, Wide Eyes Blind Love, was released in 2009. This earned him a big following in Australia and he was selling out 500-seater venues across Australia.

He first took his act in October 2009 to Australia, where he supported acts such as Lior and Sydneysiders Elana Stone and Brian Campeau, and then played One Movement, a major music industry-focus festival in Perth. The band broke up in 2009.Ģ009: Solo career and Wide Eyes Blind LoveĪfter the break-up of Passenger, Rosenberg kept the stage-name Passenger 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 debut and only album, Wicked Man's Rest, was released in 2007, on Chalkmark.

He founded Passenger with Andrew Phillips in 2003 in Brighton and Hove. Rosenberg did his first performance when he was 16. Music career 2003-2009: Passenger Main article: Passenger (British band) He did not apply himself at school in Brighton, spending his time on music. Rosenberg learned classical guitar at a young age, and around 14-15 started to write songs. Rosenberg was born in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, to an English mother and an American father, Gerard Rosenberg, originally from Vineland, New Jersey. His most successful single, "Let Her Go", has topped the charts in many countries. 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 folk-rock singer-songwriter.
