Tom Rosenthal (born 26 August 1986) is an English singer-songwriter and composer. His music has been described as "short, expertly crafted pop songs".
Music
Rosenthal has released 6 albums to date, all of them self-released on his own label Tinpot Records. Keep a Private Room Behind the Shop was released in 2011, and the latest is Denis Was A Bird in 2021, written about his father's death. His songs have had over 350 million streams on Spotify.
Rosenthal's makes videos for his songs that he posts on YouTube and Vimeo. His video for "Watermelon" was noted in the Top 30 music videos of 2014 by The Huffington Post as, "Best use of a grown man in a watermelon suit. (*Close call though.)"
Rosenthal's music has been used on television soundtracks. "Forgets Slowly", "Lights on But Nobody's Home", and "Take Care" featured in the ''
Skins'' episode "Alo".
"Go Solo" was featured on the soundtrack of the German film ''
Head Full of Honey'' (2014), the documentary ''
Kid Poker'' (2015), the NFL documentary
Hard Knocks, the film trailer for
Felix and Meira, and the
Netflix
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documentary
The Least Expected Day: Inside the Movistar Team 2019. "It's OK" features on the film trailers for ''
Comet
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'' (2014), ''
Anesthesia
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'' (2014). and ''
L'odyssée'' (2016) From 2016 through to 2018 his songs It's OK and Woes have been used on
Neighbours
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons an ...
.
Rosenthal's song "Go Solo" featured in a TV commercial for the
Renault Zoe
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E-TRON in 2021 and in a 2022 episode of the NBC drama series
New Amsterdam
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.
Rosenthal played his first concert at
St Pancras Old Church
St Pancras Old Church is a Church of England parish church in Somers Town, Central London. It is dedicated to the Roman martyr Saint Pancras, and is believed by many to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England. The church i ...
on Wednesday 13 March 2019, followed by a tour around Europe and a gig at
Union Chapel, with over 40 concerts in 2019.
Rosenthal recorded a
cover version
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of the single "
Home
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" in 2015, followed by an album of covers called ''Stop Stealing the Covers!'' in 2020 under the pseudonym Edith Whiskers.
Personal life
At age 4, Rosenthal's daughter Fenn composed the song "
Dinosaurs in Love
"Dinosaurs in Love" is a 2020 song by Fenn Rosenthal, the at the time near-four-year-old daughter of British musician Tom Rosenthal. The recording went viral in January 2020 after her father shared it on his Twitter account, and it was viewed mor ...
", which went viral on the Internet in 2020.
Rosenthal co-founded the UK charity Grand Plan, which funds four grants of £1,000 to artists of colour looking to realise a creative project.
Discography
Albums
Extended plays
Compilation albums
Non-album singles
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenthal, Tom
1986 births
Living people
Alumni of Durham University
English male singer-songwriters