a short time Ago, the singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen said that he was "prepared to die". His words, as a sentence, were met in a matter of days. Today the world says goodbye to one of the greats.
And that is that no one whispers as he, no one sings like him and no one plays like him. When he opened his mouth I heard a deep voice fascinating. Cohen articulated each word as revealing a secret with a dose of mystery in every silence.
The news was confirmed through the official social networks of Leonard Cohen. “It is with deep sadness to inform you that the legendary poet, composer and artist, Leonard Cohen has died. We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries. A memorial will take place in los Angeles at a later date. The family ask for privacy during their time of pain.”
Your life
Cohen was born in Montreal September 21, 1934 to a jewish family. It has been described by the music critic Bruce Eder as "one of the singers and composers most fascinating and enigmatic of the late 60′s". His musical legacy is part of the Hall of Fame Rock and Roll of the united States and of the Hall of Fame Music of his native country. He is a member of the Order of Canada and the National Order of Quebec.
love, sex, heartbreak, religion, and personal relationships are the recurring themes in his books of poetry, two novels and in his songs immortal.
Came to the music at 33 years of age, because I thought that as a writer could not get enough money to live on. His third album Songs of Love and Hate (1970) obtained a remarkable success in the united States and the United Kingdom. At that time one of his songs more famous was Suzzane.
In that decade, his career skyrocketed. Cohen came out for the first time to tour in the united States, Canada, and Europe in 1970. Appeared in the Festival of the Isle of Wight. And during the tour of 1974 published New skin for the old ceremony, a musical association with pianist and arranger John Lissauer.
In the 80′s would Various positions which included songs like Dance Me to the End of Love and Hallelujah, the song with more versions.
At the end of that decade he released his album I’m Your Man, in which he reflected on social issues with songs such as Everybody Knows. In 1992, Cohen released its tenth album, The Future, songs of this album appeared in several movies. Waiting for the Miracle, Anthem, and The Future, for example were used by Oliver Stone in natural Killers (1994).
From 1994 to 1999, he was held in a monastery. There was named Jikan, which means "the silence between two thoughts". At the end of the 90 Cohen returned to the recording studio and he began to contribute poems and drawings to his website Leonard Cohen Files.
In 2001 he released Ten New Songs, his first album in nearly a decade, with a strong influence of Sharon Robinson. In October 2004, Cohen released Dear Heather, a musical collaboration with the singer and lady friend Anjani Thomas. When she turned 80 also celebrated with an album, Popular Problems, and this 2016 premiered You want it darker.
To Leonard Cohen never liked international tours. It did in 2009 when his representative, Kelley Lynch, stole all their savings and had no other choice.
poetry and women
In 2011 he was awarded with the Prize Prince of Asturias of the Letters. There he recalled that thanks to a Spanish guitarist was encouraged to devote himself to music, since I was disappointed by their lack of success as a writer.
"I Wish I could say everything there is to say in a word. I hate all the things that can happen between the start and the end of a sentence," said Cohen ever. And so he did and it does: it has managed to say so much with a song or with a poem.
The love life of Cohen was marked by a number of women that motivated him to write poems and songs. His most beloved one was Marianne Ihlen, whom you have spent So Long Marianne, one of his most famous songs.
less than two months Ago Marianne died. Before his death, Cohen was encouraged to send a few last words: "Well, Marianne, we have come to this time in which we are so old that our bodies are falling apart; I think that I will follow very soon. You know that I am so close to you that, if you stretch out your hand, I think that you can touch mine. You already know that I have always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to dwell on it now that you know everything. I just want to wish you a good trip. Goodbye, old friend. All the love, I’ll see you by the way."
To her he met her on Hydra, the Greek island where he lived for almost a decade before devoting himself to music. At that time he wrote the book of poems, Flowers for Hitler (1964) and the novels The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). The first tells the story of a young woman looking for her identity in writing. And with Beautiful Losers elicited controversy due to a number of passages with explicit sexual details.
Another of the women of his life was his wife Suzanne with whom he had two children: Adam, who is a singer, and Lorca its youngest daughter to the one who put that name in honor of his favorite poet, Federico García Lorca.
The only one that has accompanied him during his entire life has been Anjani Thomas, his chorister in the early years, girlfriend for a time and lead singer until today. She dedicated the poem Now and then in which he says: "I’m Always thinking of a song to sing along to the Anjani".
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