Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer, songwriter, and poet who created deeply introspective and poetic music that blended literary depth with folk and rock sounds. His work, spanning several decades until his death in 2016, profoundly influenced popular music and demonstrated how serious literary artistry could reach mass audiences.
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- 21 September 1934
- Died
- 7 November 2016
- Works
- 98
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Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet, novelist, and painter. His work mostly explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.[2] Cohen was inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was a Companion of…
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- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2026
- Leonard Cohen: If It Be Your Will — Self2024
- Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts2024
- Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song — Self2022
- Canadian Hits at the BBC — Self2021
- Symphony Of The Invisible — Self (voice)2020
- Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love — Self (archive footage)2019
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Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer of all time.
Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s, and did not begin a music career until 1966. His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974). His 1977 record Death of a Ladies' Man, co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was a move away from Cohen's previous minimalist sound.
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