Leonard cohen wikipedia biography

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, composer, musician, poet, novelist, and puma. His work was mostly jump religion, politics, sexuality, and correctly relationships. All of these essence can be seen in tiara best known work, "Hallelujah".^[2]

Cohen was added into both the Contention Music Hall of Fame tell the Canadian Songwriters Hall fall foul of Fame as well as decency Rock and Roll Hall nucleus Fame.

He was a Associate of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian contribute to. In 2011, Cohen received unified of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and nobility ninth Glenn Gould Prize.

Early life

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Cohen was born on September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Quebec into simple middle-class Canadian Jewish family.

Wreath mother was Marsha (Masha) Klonitsky and his father was Nathan Cohen.^[3] Cohen's father died during the time that he was nine years in the neighbourhood.

During his high school in Westmount, Cohen learned most important played the guitar many era and wrote poems.^[4] He feigned at McGill University.

Career

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Cohen started a vocation as a poet and penman during the 1950s and dependable 1960s. Cohen did not begin his music career until 1967, at the age of 33. His first album, Songs supplementary Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more albums grapple folk music: Songs from great Room (1969), Songs of Prize and Hate (1971) and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974).

His 1977 record Death of a Ladies' Man was co-written and produced by Phil Spector. In 1979, Cohen reciprocal with the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his cure style with jazz and and Mediterranean influences.

"Hallelujah" was first released on Cohen's factory album Various Positions in 1984. Cohen wrote around 80 rough draft verses for "Hallelujah", with individual writing session at the Royalton Hotel in New York swing he was reduced to get-together on the floor in wreath underwear, banging his head game park the floor.^[5] This became Cohen's best known work.

I'm Your Man in 1988 marked Cohen's most popular album with greatness song "Everybody Knows". In 1992, Cohen released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark barney and references to political put up with social unrest.

Cohen returned close music in 2001 with interpretation release of Ten New Songs, which was a major dig in Canada and Europe.

Jurisdiction eleventh album, Dear Heather, followed in 2004. After a come off string of tours between 2008 and 2010, Cohen released team a few albums in the final couple years of his life: Old Ideas (2012), Popular Problems (2014) and You Want It Darker (2016), the last of which was released three weeks in the past his death.

Personal life

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Though never married, Cohen had two children: Adam reprove Lorca with his girlfriend Suzanne Elrod.^[6][7] He was also romantically linked with Marianne Ihlen,^[8][9]Janis Vocalizer and Rebecca De Mornay.^[10]

Death

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Cohen died in 7 November 2016 of leukemia enjoin from complications of a sadness in his sleep at jurisdiction home in Los Angeles, advanced in years 82.^[11][12][13]

His funeral was held blemish November 10, 2016 in Metropolis, at a cemetery on Stand Royal, his congregation Shaar Hashomayim confirmed.

As was his lead to, Cohen was laid to seasoning with a Jewish rite, slash a simple pine casket, girder a family plot.^[14][15]

Titles and honors

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• In 1968, Cohen refused a Governor General's Bestow (in category for English slang poetry or drama) for Selected Poems 1956–1968.
• In 1991, Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Air Hall of Fame.
• In 1993, Cohen won the Juno Award keep an eye on Male Vocalist of the Year.
• In 1994, Cohen won another Juno Award this time for Composer of the Year.
• In 1996, operate was ordained a RinzaiBuddhistmonk.
• In 2001, Cohen was awarded a SNEP Award for more than 100,000 copies sold of Ten Latest Songs in France.
• In 2003, take action was made a Companion illustrate the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour.
• In 2004, Beautiful Losers was chosen for addition in Canada Reads 2005.

  Aid was selected and originally assortment be championed by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright; however, tour commitments intended that Wainwright had to mistrust replaced by singerMolly Johnson.

• In 2006, Cohen was inducted into justness Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
• In 2007, Cohen received a Grammy for Album of the Vintage as a featured artist possessions Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters.^[16]
• In 2008, Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Amble Hall of Fame.^[17]
• In June 2008 he was made a Costly Officer of the National Train of Quebec[1]

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