Passenger was born after 1985 .
In 2014 the song was nominated for the Brit Award for British Single of the Year , and he received the British Academy 's Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work. Rosenberg was born on 17 May 1984 in Brighton & Hove , East Sussex , England to an English mother and an American father , Gerard Rosenberg , originally from Vineland , New Jersey .
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