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 on Celia Cruz and the Fania Allstars in Africa and B.B. King: Live in Africa in 1974, on both of which he worked as a producer. [5]
1997 saw the release of Sonenberg's first film project, the acclaimed documentary When We Were Kings, about boxer Muhammad Ali, for which Sonenberg received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[6] In 2002, Sonenberg produced Dance of the Vampires on Broadway.[7]
Sonenberg has two daughters, and enjoys table tennis.
On the track "How Many Mics" from the blockbuster album "The Score" by The Fugees, David Sonenberg was mentioned by Wyclef in the lyric: So on my day off, with David Sonenberg I play golf. Run through Crown Heights screaming out, "Mazel tov!"