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Leonard Norman Cohen was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the Montreal anglophone enclave of Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934.His Lithuanian Jewish mother, Marsha ("Masha") Klonitsky (1905–1978), [3] [4] emigrated to Canada in 1927 and was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline.
Songwriter (s) Leonard Cohen. " The Gypsy's Wife " is a song written by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen that was first released on his sixth studio album Recent Songs (1979). Live recordings of it appear as the fourth track on Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 (2001) and as the thirteenth track on Cohen's Live in London (2009 ...
Death of a Ladies' Man is the fifth studio album by Leonard Cohen, produced and co-written by Phil Spector.The album was in some ways a departure from Cohen's typical minimalist style by using Spector's Wall of Sound recording method, which included ornate arrangements and multiple tracks of instrument overdubs.
Leonard credits with ruining his life, because that’s how he got hooked on poetry, by reading Lorca as a teenager. “Take This Waltz,” I think that was also a song that I absolutely adored ...
Leonard Cohen’s children and heirs, Lorca and Adam Cohen, have filed a motion accusing the legendary singer-songwriter’s former manager, Robert Kory, and his legal representatives of forgery ...
Leonard Cohen singles chronology. " Take This Waltz ". (1986) "First We Take Manhattan". (1988) " Take This Waltz " is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, originally released as part of the 1986 Federico García Lorca tribute album Poets in New York[1] and as a single. The song was later included in Cohen's 1988 studio album I'm ...
Live in London is a (double) live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was released on CD by Columbia/Sony March 31, 2009, is his 18th album, and his first live release since Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 in 2001. A DVD of the performance was simultaneously released by Columbia/Sony.
Through his son Loudon, he was the grandfather of singer-songwriters Rufus Wainwright (born 1973), who married Jörn Weisbrodt and had a child, Viva Wainwright Cohen, with friend Lorca Cohen (herself the daughter of singer Leonard Cohen); [21] Martha Wainwright (born 1976), who married Brad Albetta; and Lucy Wainwright Roche (b. 1981). [18] [22]