Tom Rosenthal | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 26 August 1986 |
| Origin | London, England |
| Genres | Indie pop, indie folk |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, ukulele |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Website | tomrosenthal |
Tom Rosenthal (born 26 August 1986) is an English singer-songwriter and composer. His music has been described as "short, expertly crafted pop songs". [1]
Rosenthal has released 6 albums to date, all of them self-released on his own label Tinpot Records. [2] Keep a Private Room Behind the Shop was released in 2011, and the latest is Zz-sides. His songs have had over 350 million streams on Spotify. [3]
Rosenthal 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.)" [4]
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". [5] [6] "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 documentary The Least Expected Day: Inside the Movistar Team 2019. [7] "It's OK" features on the film trailers for Comet (2014), [8] Anesthesia (2014). [9] and L'odyssée (2016) [10] From 2016 through to 2018 his songs It's OK and Woes have been used on Neighbours. [11] [12] [13]
Rosenthal's song "Go Solo" featured in a TV commercial for the Renault Zoe E-TRON in 2021 [14] and in a 2022 episode of the NBC drama series New Amsterdam.
Rosenthal played his first concert at St Pancras Old Church on Wednesday 13 March 2019, followed by a tour around Europe and a gig at Union Chapel, with over 40 concerts in 2019. [15]
Rosenthal is also known as Edith Whiskers. This started when his cover version on the single "Home", recorded in 2015, went viral on the social media platform TikTok in 2020. [16] Edith Whiskers is depicted as an older lady, that "Edith enjoys long hot baths, a spot of beekeeping and the occasional bike ride." [16] Rosenthal released the song as a single on October 16, 2020 and on a covers album titled Stop Stealing the Covers. [17] "Home" was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2023. [18]
At age 4, Rosenthal's daughter Fenn composed the song "Dinosaurs in Love", which went viral on the Internet in 2020. [19] [20]
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. [21]
Rosenthal was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes some time in 2021. [22]
| Title | Album details | Notes |
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| Keep a Private Room Behind the Shop |
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| Who's That in The Fog? |
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| Bolu |
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| Fenn |
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| Z-Sides |
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| Denis Was a Bird |
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| Zz-sides |
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| Title | Detroit |
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| The Pleasant Trees |
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| The Pleasant Trees, Vol. 2 |
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| The Pleasant Trees, Vol. 3 |
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| Don't Die Curious |
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| Title | Album details |
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| B-Sides |
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| The Pleasant Trees (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) |
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| Year | Title |
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| 2007 | "Smells Like Christmas Time" |
| 2011 | "Superfresh" |
| 2012 | "Christmas Quiet" |
| 2014 | "Hey Luis Don't Bite Me" |
| 2017 | "Melania" |
| 2019 | "Big Pot of Hummus" |
| 2019 | "It's Been a Year" |
| 2020 | "If We All Die Tomorrow" |
| 2020 | "157" |
| 2020 | "If We All Die Tomorrow (Acoustic)" |
| 2020 | "Hope" |
| 2020 | "Hope - Acoustic" with Lizzy McAlpine |
| 2020 | "Albert Camus" |
| 2020 | "Jim and Dwight" |
| 2020 | "FLOURISHING" |
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