Person
David Sonenberg
Production · New York City, New York
Biography
David Alan Sonenberg is an American music manager, and the founder of the music management company DAS Communications. He is the producer of the Oscar-winning film When We Were Kings Sonenberg joined the entertainment law firm of Weissberger & Frosch. There, he represented Broadway and Off-Broadway musical productions including Hair, Godspell and Cabaret. 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'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, The Fugees including Lauryn Hill, 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 totaling in excess of 300 million records worldwide.
Known for

Classic Albums
Self - Manager: Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman

Bat Out of Hell: The Musical
Producer

When We Were Kings
Executive Producer

Soul Power
Producer

Reeve Carney & the Revolving Band - Live at Molly Malone's
Executive Producer

B.B. King: Live In Africa '74
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2025Bat Out of Hell: The MusicalProducer
- 2009Soul PowerProducer
- 2007Reeve Carney & the Revolving Band - Live at Molly Malone'sExecutive Producer
- 1998B.B. King: Live In Africa '74Executive Producer
- 1997Classic AlbumsSelf - Manager: Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman
- 1996When We Were KingsExecutive Producer
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