Leonard Cohen

Genres: Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Chamber Folk, Contemporary Folk

Leonard Cohen

Ranking

  • Rank: #76 of 411 bands on the BandRank leaderboard
  • ELO score: 1028
  • Record: 4 wins, 2 losses, 0 ties in head-to-head votes

Bio

Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. In 2023, Rolling Stone magazine named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer of all time.

Bio source: Wikipedia

Albums

  • Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
  • Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
  • New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974)
  • I'm Your Man (1988)
  • You Want It Darker (2016)

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