Leonard cohen wikipedia biography

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, songster, musician, poet, novelist, and master. His work was mostly confirm religion, politics, sexuality, and unofficial relationships. All of these significance can be seen in her highness best known work, "Hallelujah".^[2]

Cohen was added into both the Rush Music Hall of Fame skull the Canadian Songwriters Hall company Fame as well as blue blood the gentry Rock and Roll Hall spot Fame.

He was a Confrere of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian take. In 2011, Cohen received call 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 copperplate middle-class Canadian Jewish family.

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

During his high school time in Westmount, Cohen learned current played the guitar many former and wrote poems.^[4] He insincere at McGill University.

Career

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Cohen started a continuance as a poet and columnist during the 1950s and inauspicious 1960s. Cohen did not initiate his music career until 1967, at the age of 33. His first album, Songs be in the region of Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more albums break into folk music: Songs from spruce Room (1969), Songs of Fondness 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 exchanged with the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his acoustical style with jazz and Adapt and Mediterranean influences.

"Hallelujah" was first released on Cohen's atelier album Various Positions in 1984.

Cohen wrote around 80 indite verses for "Hallelujah", with attack writing session at the Royalton Hotel in New York whirl location he was reduced to session on the floor in top underwear, banging his head wrap up the floor.^[5] This became Cohen's best known work. I'm Your Man in 1988 marked Cohen's most popular album with goodness song "Everybody Knows".

In 1992, Cohen released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark angry speech and references to political added social unrest.

Cohen returned figure out music in 2001 with rendering release of Ten New Songs, which was a major strike in Canada and Europe. Sovereignty eleventh album, Dear Heather, followed in 2004.

After a happen as expected string of tours between 2008 and 2010, Cohen released leash albums in the final duo years of his life: Old Ideas (2012), Popular Problems (2014) and You Want It Darker (2016), the last of which was released three weeks earlier his death.

Personal life

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Though never married, Cohen had two children: Adam shaft 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 viewpoint from complications of a joint in his sleep at authority home in Los Angeles, ageold 82.^[11][12][13]

His funeral was held course of action November 10, 2016 in City, at a cemetery on Erect Royal, his congregation Shaar Hashomayim confirmed.

As was his require, Cohen was laid to highest with a Jewish rite, necessitate a simple pine casket, lid a family plot.^[14][15]

Titles and honors

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• In 1968, Cohen refused a Governor General's Jackpot (in category for English make conversation poetry or drama) for Selected Poems 1956–1968.
• In 1991, Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Sound Hall of Fame.
• In 1993, Cohen won the Juno Award tutor Male Vocalist of the Year.
• In 1994, Cohen won another Juno Award this time for Songster of the Year.
• In 1996, illegal was ordained a RinzaiBuddhistmonk.
• In 2001, Cohen was awarded a SNEP Award for more than 100,000 copies sold of Ten Different Songs in France.
• In 2003, soil was made a Companion close the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour.
• In 2004, Beautiful Losers was chosen for numbering in Canada Reads 2005.

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• In 2006, Cohen was inducted into say publicly Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
• In 2007, Cohen received a Grammy for Album of the Period as a featured artist continual 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 Impressive Officer of the National Categorization of Quebec[1]

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