Leonard Cohen was ready to die. I knew that, in his 82 years, the time was near but not that he had concern to do less things in life.
So said The New Yorker, just now, that he had just opened his disk You want it darker, last month, and he confessed that some issues remained inconclusive because his health no longer allowed it.
"I don’t think that to be able to finish those songs. Maybe, who knows? Maybe you receive a new breath, I don’t know. I do not dare to tie me to a spiritual strategy. I do not dare to do that. I have work to do. To take care of the business. I am prepared to die. I hope that is not too uncomfortable."
beyond the very title of the album, the first track has something of a sacred, almost of the beyond, especially when the poet of the pop mutter: "I’m ready, Lord."
Cohen also spoke about how their health had worsened in recent years, particularly in connection with his or her back. "You’re losing too much weight, Leonard. You’re dying, but you don’t have to cooperate with enthusiasm with the process. Force yourself to yourself to eat a sandwich," he joked during the interview.
Yesterday, the news came: "it Is with profound sadness that we report that the legendary poet, composer and performer, Leonard Cohen has died. We have lost someone of the music’s most revered, prolific, and visionary. A ceremony will take place in Los Angeles at a later date. The family ask for privacy during their moments of pain", he said in a text last night issued by his label, Sony Music Canada, who was placed in your official page of Facebook, at the same time that your profile picture had been changed.
did Not specify the time, the place, or the causes of death.
Poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter canadian, was born on 21 September 1934 in Westmount, an area anglophone from Montreal, Quebec. He entered McGill University of Montreal, where he became president of the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate and won a contest with the poems "Sparrows" and "Thoughts of a Landsman". Cohen published his first poems in march 1954 in the magazine CIV/n.
In that time his poetry was influenced by artists such as William Butler Yeats, Irving Layton, Walt Whitman, Federico Garcia Lorca and Henry Miller.
After completing his career he spent a year in the Faculty of Law of McGill university, and another year in the School of General Studies of Columbia University. The musician described his college experience as "passion without flesh, love without climax".
he Returned to Montreal in 1957, where he worked in various trades and focused on the writing of poetry and fiction, including the poems of his next book: The spice-ox of Earth (1961).
In 1967, disappointed with his lack of success as a writer, the poet moved to the USA to start a career as a singer-songwriter folk. His song "Suzanne" was a notable success of the hand of Judy Collins, and for many years was his song with the most versioned.
Cohen caught the attention of John H. Hammond, a representative of Columbia Records and had signed Bob Dylan. His first album with Columbia Records was Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967).
Cohen co-wrote at the beginning of the 80s, the music documentary Night Magic with Lewis Furey. Lissauer produced his next work, Various Positions,, published in December 1984.
The album included the song "Dance me to the End of love".
the career of Cohen, who also went through a stage of withdrawal and bankruptcy in the 90s, added to studio albums such as I’m your man (1988), The future (1992), Ten new songs (2001), Popular problems (2014) and You want it darker, the most recent
critics compared it to Bob Dylan by the lyrical force of his compositions, but few times he came to the ranking of pop music with its melancholy folk-rock.
His most famous song was "Hallelujah", which has been interpreted by dozens of artists since 1984.
he Entered the Hall of Fame of the Rock, was Prince of Asturias Award for Letters 2011, he received the Grammy award for the track record in 2010 and was a candidate for the Nobel prize of Literature several times.
Among his poetry collections are Flowers for Hitler (1964), Parasites of Heaven (1966), Selected poems 1956-1968 (1968) and Death of a lady’s man (1978), among others. His novels were The favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful losers (1966).
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