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"You Want It Darker" is a song by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen, released on September 21, 2016, Cohen's 82nd birthday. [1] It is the title track from Cohen's album You Want It Darker. [2] The song earned the artist a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and features the vocals of Cantor Gideon Zelermyer and Shaar Hashomayim Choir. [3]
You Want It Darker is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on October 21, 2016, by Columbia Records, 17 days before Cohen's death. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album was created at the end of his life and focuses on death, God, and humor.
Cohen's 14th and final album, You Want It Darker, was released on October 21, 2016. [140] Cohen's son Adam Cohen has a production credit on the album. [ 141 ] On February 23, 2017, Cohen's son and his final album collaborator Sammy Slabbinck released a special, posthumous tribute video set to the album track "Traveling Light", featuring never ...
The song "The Goal" was released with the announcement of the album, on September 20, 2019. [ 3 ] Described as a "continuation" of Cohen's previous studio album, You Want It Darker (2016), the album's vocal tracks were recorded during the same sessions, with Cohen's son and album producer Adam Cohen noting that the album should not be ...
Among the new songs are "I Want" and "Beyond," the latter of which composer Emily Bear told EW "is a little bit darker than" Moana's famous Lin-Manuel Miranda-written anthem "How Far I'll Go" from ...
Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985).It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited with Cohen as ...
The following month, Cohen's own version was issued on his debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen. Cohen wrote the song when staying at the Penn Terminal Hotel on 34th Street in New York City in 1966. He wrote: The room is too hot. I can't open the windows. I am in the midst of a bitter quarrel with a blonde woman.
Adam Cohen, who was initially the organiser of the show, said he and his team came up with about 20 songs they knew, had to be performed and then they contacted their dream list of artists. "We ended up calling hundreds of people to get to the perfect cast," Adam said. [ 3 ]