Cohen’s Polish-born grandfather, Lyon Cohen, was an important figure in Montréal’s Jewish community.
Family Backgroundīorn in Westmount, Québec, to a traditional Jewish family, Cohen was the second child of Masha Klinitsky-Klein and Nathan Bernard Cohen. Leonard Cohen in concert in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27 October 2008. He also received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, the Glenn Gould Prize, eight Juno Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and numerous other honours. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the US Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Folk Music Walk of Fame. As a poetic and unlikely pop star, his narrow-ranged, gruff voice, which deepened and darkened with age, and his reliance on simple, singsong melodies were complimented by the intense imagery and depth of his lyrics. In his poetry, novels and music, he constantly probed the human condition, exploring themes of love, loss, death and his commitment to his art. A sage, mystic, bohemian and romantic, he built an acclaimed body of literary work and a revered career in pop music. Leonard Cohen was one of the most iconic Canadian artists of the 20th century. His life has always been dangerously mythic.Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ, poet, novelist, singer, songwriter (born 21 September 1934 in Montreal, QC died 7 November 2016 in Los Angeles, California). "Cohen has always been a man of surprises, so much so that many take him to be a man of artful disguises (as he sometimes does himself). What he finds is a man with a unique ability to serve up bleak but heartfelt individual truth. Author David Sheppard explores Cohen's fifty year odyssey through Judaic mythology, drugs, alcohol, sex, and Buddhism. He has written two novels including the cult classic Beautiful Losers, and eight volumes of poetry. His most recent album, The Future, is his eleventh. Born in Montreal in 1934, Cohen received international recognition for his second collection of poems The Spice Box of the Earth in 1961, rising to prominence in 1967 with his debut album The Songs of Leonard Cohen. He was officially ordained a Buddhist monk and given the name of Jikan (Silent One). The consort of Janis Joplin and Rebecca De Mornay and one-time collaborator of Phil Spector, Leonard Cohen has for the last five years been a full-time resident of the Mount Baldy Zen Center near Los Angeles where he submitted to the rigors of zazen and communal living.
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