David Rosenthal

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Rosenthal
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Jan 1, 1961(1961-01-01)
Age	63
Birthplace	Manhattan
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

David Rosenthal Biography

David Rosenthal is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on January 1, 1961 in Manhattan, New York, United States. David Rosenthal (born January 1 1961) is an American musician, keyboardist and music producer. He is also a synthesizer programmer, orchestrator and songwriter. He is best known for his work with the world-renowned hard-rock band Rainbow and pop icon Billy Joel. Rosenthal has been nominated to win three Grammy Awards, and in addition to Rainbow and Joel has collaborated in collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, Enrique Iglesias, Robert Palmer, Steve Vai, Cyndi Lauper, Yngwie Malmsteen Little Steven, Happy the Man, and many more. In addition, Rosenthal has “perfect pitch”.

Rosenthal has been awarded the honor of three Grammy Award nominations: Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1983 (Rainbow’s “Anybody There” from the Bent Out of Shape LP), Best Rock Instrumental LP in 1990 (Steve Vai’s Passion and Warfare), and the Best Musical Show Album in 2003 (Movin Out, the” from the original Broadway The Cast Recording). He was also the Keyboard Magazine Readers Poll Winner for the title of Best Hired Gun in 1993. He also received the an award from Berklee’s College of Music’s distinguished Alumni Award in 1994. Rosenthal has received many platinum and gold albums.

From 1986 to 1987, Rosenthal played keyboards for Cyndi Lauper on the True Colors world tour, and appeared in the music videos for “Change of Heart”, “What’s Goin’ On”, and “Boy Blue”, plus the longform videos Live in Paris (which originally aired as an HBO special) and Live in Japan (which was recorded in 1991 when Rosenthal worked once more with Lauper). TV appearances with Lauper included David Letterman, Johnny Carson, and the MTV Video Music Awards.

1988 saw Rosenthal play on Will to Power’s remake medley of Peter Frampton’s “Baby I Love Your Way” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” – titled “Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)” – which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of December 3, 1988. Rosenthal also played on several tracks on Will to Power’s self-titled album. Around this time, he appeared on albums by Donna Allen (1988’s Heaven on Earth) and Nicole McCloud (1989’s Jam Packed and later on 1998’s Love Town). Rosenthal also co-wrote the 1989 No. 11 R&B hit “Let Me Take You Down” by Stacy Lattisaw and performed on her album, Personal Attention.

Rosenthal is also a talented orchestrator, and has performed for various artists throughout the time. The credits include Rainbow’s “Eyes of Fire”, that was performed by the musicians of the Montreal Symphony and appeared on the Straight Between The Eyes album (1982) and “Difficult to Cure” (a rock version of Beethoven’s “9th” featuring excerpts from the “9th Symphony”) which was recorded live by participants of the Tokyo Symphony at the Budokan in Tokyo (1984) and was later released in the year 2015 as a concert CD and live album called Rainbow Live from Japan 1984. In 1997, Rosenthal conducted Yngwie Malmsteen’s Millennium Concerto Suite for Electric Orchestra and Guitar – the score is 308 pages long and includes a an orchestra of 90 pieces and a 40-piece choir performed by the Czech Philharmonic in Prague (released on CD in 1998) and then performed live at Tokyo in members of the New Japan Philharmonic (released on DVD in 2002).

David Rosenthal Net Worth

David Rosenthal is one of the richest Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Rosenthal 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rosenthal was born within Edison, New Jersey, and is the sole musician in the family. He began piano lessons at seven, and began playing in cover bands by the time at the age of 12. His high school band Crystal Visions ( Mike Walsh -Guitar,Singer,Richard Radnovich Bass Guitar, Steve Miller & Michael Kaplan on Drums.Special mention to George Fendt who was the band’s travel manager and light show Coordinator. He also served as the personal Valet to Mr. Rosenthal for 6 years. ) Best Instrumental Group at an event in 1978 that was a all- state Talent Expo by performing Emerson Lake and Palmer’s “Hoedown” at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey (now known as”the PNC Bank Arts Center). The early influences of Rosenthal were Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Ken Hensley, Chick Corea, Kit Watkins, and Tomita. He was a student at Berklee College of Music, where he performed in an ensemble that was formed by Steve Vai called Morning Thunder and graduated in 1981.

In the month of October, just after graduation at Berklee, Rosenthal replaced Don Airey in Rainbow after he had a successful audition against fifty other applicants. The singer-songwriter went on to appear in the 1982 album Straight Between the Eyes and 1983’s Bent Out of Shape. Rosenthal co-wrote the tracks “Miss Mistreated” (from Straight Between the Eyes), and “Can’t Let You Go” as well as “Fire Dance” (from Bent Out of Shape), and was featured in the music video for “Stone Cold”, “Death Alley Driver”, “Street of Dreams” and “Can’t Let You Go”. The singer appears in Rainbow’s full-length concerts videos Live Between the Eyes (1982) and Japan Tour 1984 (the latter one features Rosenthal’s orchestration when Rainbow performed live with an orchestra in the Budokan at the Budokan in Tokyo). Rosenthal is also featured on several tracks from the live album Finyl Vinyl.

After the initial breakup of Rainbow, Rosenthal went on to work with a variety of other artists, including a world tour with Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul (on the Voice of America tour in 1984). In 1985, he produced the debut album for Hammerhead, a Dutch band, which featured Ian Parry (Mono Pacific with Zak Starkey, Airrace with Jason Bonham) on vocals and Joe Franco (Twisted Sister, The Good Rats) on drums. The band broke up prior to the album’s release, however the album entitled Heart Made of Steel was eventually released in 2000.

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In 1997 Rosenthal played keyboards for Latin pop sensation Enrique Iglesias on the Vivir world tour and appeared in his music video “Solo En Tí (Only You)”. It was Iglesias’s debut tour and included live TV performances on Jay Leno and Vibe with Sinbad.

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Rosenthal participated in several 9/11 benefit performances in 2001, including America: A Tribute to Heroes, where he performed with Faith Hill along with Paul Shaffer and a gospel choir for the song “There Will Come a Day”, and The Concert for New York City where he performed with Billy Joel and the band for the songs “Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out on Broadway)” and “New York State of Mind”. Both of these 9/11 benefit performances were released on DVD and CD in 2001.