{"id":16742,"date":"2016-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/singer-songwriter-leonard-cohen-dead\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T00:00:00","slug":"singer-songwriter-leonard-cohen-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/singer-songwriter-leonard-cohen-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer, songwriter Leonard Cohen dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet and novelist who became a singular international presence as a singer-songwriter, has died. He was 82.<\/h3>\n

“It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away,” a statement on his official Facebook page said.<\/p>\n

“We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries.”<\/p>\n

A memorial will take place in Los Angeles at a later date, said the statemet, which requested privacy for his family “during their time of grief”.<\/p>\n

Only last month, Cohen released his final album, You Want It Darker, a deeply introspective work that focused thematically on mortality.<\/p>\n

His elegantly penned songs, authored during a musical career that spanned six decades, won him comparison with such other songwriters of his era as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon.<\/p>\n

His best-known song, Hallelujah, has been recorded more than 200 times. Cohen never recorded a chart single and didn’t place an album in the top 10 until he was in his 70s, but his ardent fans and musical peers viewed him as a musical craftsman with few equals.<\/p>\n

As a songwriter, his themes encompassed love in all its manifestations, religion, faith and the tenuous state of the world.<\/p>\n

Like Hallelujah, many of his tunes — his breakthrough composition Suzanne, Bird on the Wire, Tower of Song — became much-covered keystones of the popular songbook.<\/p>\n

His longtime accompanist Jennifer Warnes recorded several of his best-known works on her 1987 Cohen recital Famous Blue Raincoat.<\/p>\n

Like his art, his life evidenced a dynamic tension between sexuality and spirituality. He was a well-known womaniser whose many romantic partners included fellow Canadian musician Joni Mitchell and actress Rebecca De Mornay.<\/p>\n

Yet he would famously reject the world of the flesh: Torn by depression and doubt about his life and career, he withdrew to spend more than five years in a Buddhist monastery; he later studied at a Hindu ashram in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

A financial crisis late in life led to a fresh burst of fame. After his business manager embezzled millions from him, the impecunious Cohen embarked on a 2008-10 world tour that restored his fortune and renewed his reputation.<\/p>\n

His 2012 album Old Ideas, released at the age of 77, became his highest-charting release ever, debuting at No. 3 in the US.<\/p>\n

He was born in Montreal. His father was a wealthy clothier, and he grew up in the city’s affluent Westmount neighbourhood. He was the grandson of Jewish European immigrants, and his maternal grandfather was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar.<\/p>\n

The top-10 arrival of the spare and drily witty Old Ideas in 2012 was succeeded by another series of concert dates in Europe and America that year and in 2013.<\/p>\n

Popular Problems was released in fall of 2014, shortly after Cohen’s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n

Cohen’s many honours included his 2008 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a 2010 Lifetime Achievement Grammy.<\/p>\n

He is survived by a son and daughter from his relationship with Suzanne Elrod.<\/p>\n

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