{"id":544397,"date":"2026-04-22T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:44:07","slug":"passenger-i-was-sofa-surfing-then-my-song-went-to-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544397\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger: &#8216;I was sofa surfing. Then my song went to number one&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Singer-songwriter Passenger has told the BBC he was sofa-surfing before his music career took off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The multi-award-winning, platinum-selling artist &#8211; real name Mike Rosenberg &#8211; said he started out busking in his home town of Brighton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I did not have a house. I just stayed in hostels and on people&#8217;s couches,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passenger, most famous for his number one song in 19 countries Let Her Go, said lots of artists got annoyed about having to play their hit. However, he said he felt grateful every time he sang it due to his journey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter Passenger has told the BBC he was sofa-surfing before his music career took off. The multi-award-winning, platinum-selling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-544397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}