David Sonenberg
David Alan Sonenberg is an American music manager and the founder of the music management company DAS Communications on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York.
He is a producer of the Oscar-winning film When We Were Kings.
Early life and education
Sonenberg grew up in New York and received a degree in theater and political science at Tufts University in Massachusetts and a juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1972, he has been a licensed attorney in New York.Career
Sonenberg joined the entertainment law firm of Weissberger & Frosch in Midtown Manhattan. There, he represented Broadway and Off-Broadway musical productions including Hair, Godspell, and Cabaret.DAS Communications
Sonenberg then established his own law firm and began DAS Communications Ltd., a full-service management company in New York and Los Angeles for artists in the entertainment industry. DAS's first management project, Meat Loaf's Bat 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 included Jim Steinman, Jimmy Cliff, Southside Johnny, Jimmy Iovine, BeBe & CeCe Winans, Keith Thomas, The Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, Spacehog, Lauryn Hill and the Fugees, The Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, Kesha, Saraya, and Indiggo. To date, artists represented by DAS Communications have written, produced, and performed recordings with sales in excess of 300 million records worldwide.DAS Ventures Ltd., another of the DAS family of companies, entered into agreements with Yoko Ono and the Estate of John Lennon in 1997, which culminated in the launch of The John Lennon Songwriting Contest.