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Leonard Cohen

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2019 - Thanks for the Dance
2016 - You Want It Darker
2014 - Popular Problems
2012 - Old Ideas
2004 - Dear Heather
2001 - Ten New Songs
1992 - The Future
1988 - I'm Your Man
1984 - Various Positions
1979 - Recent Songs
1977 - Death of a Ladies' Man
1974 - New Skin for the Old Ceremony
1970 - Songs of Love and Hate
1969 - Songs From a Room
1967 - Songs of Leonard Cohen

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Westmount, Montreal, Canada

Genre
Folk

Style
Folk

Mood
Carefree

Born

1934

Active
1967 to 2016

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Alternate Name
Leonard Norman Cohen

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Take This Waltz	In My Secret Life	Dance Me to the End of...
Closing Time	So Long, Marianne	Closing Time
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Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (21 September 1934, Westmount, Montreal, Canada - 7 November 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
While giving the speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters."
Cohen was born into a middle-class Jewish family and attended Roslyn Elementary School. His mother, Marsha Klinitsky, of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, emigrated from Lithuania while his great-grandfather emigrated from Poland. He grew up in Westmount on the Island of Montreal. His grandfather was Lyon Cohen, founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His father, Nathan Cohen, who owned a substantial Montreal clothing store, died when Cohen was nine years old. On the topic of being a Kohen, Cohen has said that, "I had a very Messianic childhood." He told Richard Goldstein in 1967. "I was told I was a descendant of Aaron, the high priest." Cohen attended Westmount High School, beginning in 1948 where he was involved with the Student Council and studied music and poetry. He became especially interested in the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca. As a teenager, he learned to play the guitar, and formed a country-folk group called the Buckskin Boys. Although he initially played a regular acoustic guitar as a teenager, he soon switched to playing a classical guitar after meeting a young Spanish flamenco guitar player who taught him "a few chords and some flamenco."


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