Daniel Rossen is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that you might know from bands as Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles.

Born on the 5th of August in 1982, Rossen grew up in Los Angeles. He got introduced to music from a young age, and also started playing the guitar. Even though he studied jazz for a while, Rossen didn’t see it as something that could blossom out into a career. When he went to university in New York to study linguistics, psychology and art history; he met Fred Nicolaus (who you may know as Golden Suits). Jokingly, they began experimenting with music during their free time. They decided to form a band named Department of Eagles, and in 2003 they released their first album under the name The Whitey on the Moon, which later got reissued as The Cold Nose. In 2008 they both released In Ear Park, a heartfelt and personal album that put Department of Eagles on the map.

Between those two albums, Rossen joined Grizzly Bear after meeting Christopher Bear, Chris Taylor and a bit later Ed Droste. In 2005, they released Yellow House, their first album where they all four worked on, as Grizzly Bear started out as Droste’s solo project. When in 2009 Veckatimest came out, their work got widely celebrated by critics.

Before the release of Grizzly Bear’s 2012 album Shields, Rossen released in the same year Silent Hour/Golden Mile, his first solo release. Ten years later, in 2022, he followed the EP up with his first solo album You Belong There. Following an extensive solo tour throughout Europe and North America, he released in 2023 his first live album, named Live in Pioneertown & Santa Fe.