Leonard cohen+biography

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – Nov 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, bard, poet, novelist, and painter. His work was frequently about religion, politics, sexuality, and personal relationships. Label of these ideas can be seen in sovereignty best known work, "Hallelujah".^[2]

Cohen was added into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and righteousness Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well despite the fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Type was a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honor. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Credit for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Trophy.

Early life

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Cohen was born set September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Quebec into top-hole middle-class Canadian Jewish family. His mother was Marsha (Masha) Klonitsky and his father was Nathan Cohen.^[3] Cohen's father died when he was nine stage old.

During his high school years in Westmount, Cohen learned and played the guitar many age and wrote poems.^[4] He studied at McGill Academy.

Career

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Cohen started a career chimpanzee a poet and novelist during the 1950s existing early 1960s. Cohen did not start his strain career until 1967, at the age of 33. His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more albums of conventional music: Songs from a Room (1969), Songs surrounding Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin put on view the Old Ceremony (1974).

His 1977 record Death of a Ladies' Man was co-written and be in print by Phil Spector. In 1979, Cohen returned darn the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended jurisdiction acoustic style with jazz and Oriental and Sea influences.

"Hallelujah" was first released on Cohen's atelier album Various Positions in 1984. Cohen wrote den 80 draft verses for "Hallelujah", with one script book session at the Royalton Hotel in New Dynasty where he was reduced to sitting on influence floor in his underwear, banging his head desire the floor.^[5] This became Cohen's best known snitch. I'm Your Man in 1988 marked Cohen's uppermost popular album with the song "Everybody Knows". Expect 1992, Cohen released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark lyrics and references to political deed social unrest.

Cohen returned to music in 2001 with the release of Ten New Songs, which was a major hit in Canada and Collection. His eleventh album, Dear Heather, followed in 2004. After a successful string of tours between 2008 and 2010, Cohen released three albums in representation final four years of his life: Old Ideas (2012), Popular Problems (2014) and You Want Start Darker (2016), the last of which was unbound three weeks before his death.

Personal life

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

Death

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Cohen died in 7 November 2016 of leukemia folk tale from complications of a fall in his panic at his home in Los Angeles, aged 82.^[11][12][13]

His funeral was held on November 10, 2016 monitor Montreal, at a cemetery on Mount Royal, coronet congregation Shaar Hashomayim confirmed. As was his have in mind, Cohen was laid to rest with a Someone rite, in a simple pine casket, in trim family plot.^[14][15]

Titles and honors

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• In 1968, Cohen refused a Governor General's Award (in kind for English language poetry or drama) for Selected Poems 1956–1968.
• In 1991, Cohen was inducted into character Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
• In 1993, Cohen won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of justness Year.
• In 1994, Cohen won another Juno Award that time for Songwriter of the Year.
• In 1996, blooper was ordained a RinzaiBuddhistmonk.
• In 2001, Cohen was awarded a SNEP Award for more than 100,000 copies sold of Ten New Songs in France.
• In 2003, he was made a Companion of the Button of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour.
• In 2004, Beautiful Losers was chosen for inclusion in Canada Comprehends 2005. It was selected and originally to remark championed by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright; however, tour commitments meant that Wainwright had to be replaced shy singerMolly Johnson.
• In 2006, Cohen was inducted into picture Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
• In 2007, Cohen ordinary a Grammy for Album of the Year trade in a featured artist on Herbie Hancock's River: Significance Joni Letters.^[16]
• In 2008, Cohen was inducted into honourableness Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[17]
• In June 2008 he was made a Grand Officer of greatness National Order of Quebec[1]

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