🎤 Mike Rosenberg

About

Mike Rosenberg, who performs as Passenger, is a singer-songwriter from Brighton. Born 17 May 1984, he left school at sixteen and earned a living busking in England and Australia. He founded the band Passenger in 2003; it broke up in 2009 and he kept the name for his solo career, moving to Australia. He plays acoustic guitar and writes story songs. The breakthrough came in 2012 with Let Her Go, which topped the charts in sixteen countries and passed four billion YouTube views. He won an Ivor Novello Award for it and earned a Brit Award nomination. In 2016 the album Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea became his first UK number one. Fifteen studio albums have appeared so far, fourteen of them solo; the latest, One for the Road, came out in September 2025. He also wrote the musical The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, premiered in Chichester in May 2025 and transferred to the West End in January 2026.