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David Sonenberg | |
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| Occupation(s) | Music manager,film producer,lawyer |
David Alan Sonenberg is an American music manager, and the founder of the music management company DAS Communications.
He is the producer of theOscar-winning filmWhen We Were Kings (1997).[1]
Born and raised inNew York[when?], Sonenberg received a degree in Theater and Political Science atTufts University[2] and ajuris doctor atHarvard Law School. Since 1972, he has been a licensed attorney in New York State.[3]
Sonenberg joined theentertainment law firm of Weissberger & Frosch. There, he representedBroadway andOff-Broadway musical productions includingHair,Godspell andCabaret.
Sonenberg then established his own law firm and began DAS Communications Ltd., a full-service management company located in New York and Los Angeles for artists in the entertainment industry. DAS's first management project,Meat Loaf'sBat Out of Hell, set an industry record for a debut album with worldwide record sales to date of more than 50 million. Other clients of DAS Communications have includedJim Steinman,Jimmy Cliff,Southside Johnny,Jimmy Iovine,BeBe & CeCe Winans,Keith Thomas,The Spin Doctors,Joan Osborne,Spacehog,The Fugees includingLauryn Hill,The Black Eyed Peas,John Legend,Kesha,Saraya andIndiggo.[4] To date, artists represented by DAS Communications have written, produced, and performed recordings with sales totaling in excess of 300 million records worldwide.[citation needed]
DAS Ventures Ltd., another of the DAS family of companies, entered into agreements withYoko Ono and the Estate ofJohn Lennon in 1997, which culminated in the launch of The John Lennon Songwriting Contest[citation needed].
Sonenberg first worked on Celia Cruz and the Fania Allstars in Africa and B.B. King: Live in Africa in 1974, on both of which he worked as a producer.[5]
1997 saw the release of Sonenberg's first film project, the acclaimed documentaryWhen We Were Kings, about boxerMuhammad Ali, for which Sonenberg received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[6] In 2002, Sonenberg producedDance of the Vampires on Broadway.[7]
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Sonenberg has two daughters, and enjoystable tennis.
On the track "How Many Mics" from the blockbuster album "The Score" by The Fugees, David Sonenberg was mentioned by Wyclef in the lyric: So on my day off, with David Sonenberg I play golf. Run through Crown Heights screaming out, "Mazel tov!"
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