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Irish child sings a moving Hallelujah

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Leonard Cohen 's celebrated hymn gets better and better. The singer is Kayla Rogers , 10, of Donaghadee (Northern Ireland).  Kayla's interpretation [ HERE ] is simply breathtaking. Her school, Killard House [ HERE ], is for children with deficiencies. Kayla has run into problems of concentration on her work, and her concert performance was intended as a therapeutic activity.

Man of the Year — my vote

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More Leonard Cohen... for eternity

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                                                                       DIEGO TUSON/AFP Click here for Suzanne , Bird on the Wire and Hallelujah WARNING: If you don't read French, then so much the better... because the text in Le Monde contains some utter nonsense. Ignore it!

Adam Cohen speaks of his father

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Ma sœur et moi venons juste d’enterrer notre père à Montréal avec seulement la présence de la famille proche et de quelques amis. Il a été porté en terre dans un cercueil en pin sans fioritures près de son père et de sa mère, exactement comme il l’avait demandé. Alors que j’écris cela, je pense à mon père, à son mélange unique d’autodérision, de dignité, d’élégance et de charisme naturel, à sa distinction à l’ancienne et à l’œuvre qu’il a forgée de sa main. Il y a tellement de choses pour lesquelles je pourrais le remercier. Je le remercie pour ce confort dont il nous a pourvus et cette sagesse qu’il nous a transmise, pour ces  conversations marathons, pour sa vivacité d’esprit et son humour. Je le remercie pour m’avoir appris à aimer Montréal et la Grèce et pour la musique, celle qui m’a séduit alors que j’étais un petit garçon, celle qu’il m’a encouragé à composer et celle que j’ai eu le privilège de faire avec lui. Merci pour tous vos messages, vos témoignages de sympathie et l’...

Plot of earth in Montreal

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Cohen family plot at the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery on Friday in Montreal.  (Giovanni Capriotti / for the Toronto Star) Cohen at home, Los Angeles. September 24, 2016. N o more touring ahead. Cohen now concentrates upon his family, friends and the work at hand.   [photo by Graeme Mitchell for The New Yorke r ]

Cohen song that's hard to understand

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Leonard Cohen, 1976, in France                                                            [photo Istvan Bajzat/Alliances] The Cohen song Hallelujah was started in 1980, but wasn’t finally written until 1984. Naive listeners might fail to understand that it’s a highly erotic song. An explicitly sensual version was brought out by Jeff Buckley . Switch to YouTube to access the original Buckley's performance. It's a song inspired by the singer's sexual relationship with a lady.

Two angels and a holy man

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The holy man has just left us in painful solitude. Many years ago, in a Paris concert hall, I had the privilege of seeing blonde Julie Christensen and dark Pearla Batella accompanying Leonard Cohen . They appeared to me as a pair of female angels surrounding a holy man.

Leonard Cohen on Chelsea Hotel

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Like a bird in the sky

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Leonard Cohen [1934-2016] We were waiting to say farewell, dear Leonard. We knew you were ready to leave. You left us so elegantly, in your usual style, with no more than a few words... for those who had already gone.