DAS Communications

Sonenberg then established his own law firm and began DAS Communications Ltd., a full-service management company 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, Lauryn Hill and the Fugees, The Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, Kesha, Saraya, and Indiggo.^[4] To date, artists represented by DAS Communications have written, produced, and performed recordings with sales in excess of 300 million records worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

DAS Ventures Ltd., another of the DAS family of companies, entered into agreements with Yoko Ono and the Estate of John Lennon in 1997, which culminated in the launch of The John Lennon Songwriting Contest^{[citation needed]}.

Productions

Sonenberg first worked as a producer on Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars in Africa and B.B. King: Live in Africa in 1974. ^[5] In 1997, Sonenberg's first film project (an acclaimed documentary When We Were Kings) about boxer Muhammad Ali was released. He received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.^[6] In 2002, he produced Dance of the Vampires on Broadway.^[7]