Leonard Norman Cohen was born in 1934, songwriter, poet and composer from Canada, the first to combine poetry with music.
There songwriter who has not been called to his music and his lyrics.
His first collection of poems was published in 1956, Let Us Compare Mythologies.
The following year he released his first album of poetry Six Montreal Poets.
In 1961 published the poetry collection The Spice-Box of Earth.
He moved to Hydra, an island of Greece became a popular refuge for artists of all kinds, and publish collections of poetry, including Flowers for Hitler, and two novels: The favorite game of 1963 and Beautiful Losers in 1966.
Judy Collins plays some of his songs and convinces him to make music, his song Suzanne in 1966 became a worldwide success. Other famous songs are: Famous Blue Raincoat, The Partisan, So Long Marianne, Chelsea Hotel, Sisters of Mercy.
Mitica is Hallelujah, made even more famous by the many cover songs, particularly those of Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan and John Cale, and then Waiting for the Miracle, Tower of Song, First We Take Manhattan (well known is the cover of Joe Cocker) and Bird on a Wire.
Cohen is a follower of Buddhism, and spent most of the nineties in the Buddhist monastery on Mount Baldy in California, taking the name of Jikan (Silent).
poignant lyricist, arranger and singer with a hoarse voice brilliant and profound, revolutionary figure of the singer by doing a full image.
His music was born hearing but over the years has been enhanced with different sounds, begins to use the orchestra, synthesizer and female choirs.
Recurrent themes in her work include love and sex, religion, psychological depression, and the music itself.
In many songs like Story of Isaac, Who By Fire, and the famous Hallelujah, it denotes a deep religious spirit, with clear references to his Jewish origins.
Cohen has written much (especially in his early work) on the topics of depression and suicide, in Beautiful Losers, Seem So Long Ago, Nancy, One of Us Can not Be Wrong, Dress Rehearsal Rag talk about suicide.
In songs like Please Do not Pass Me By Tonight Will Be Fine and the topic is depression.
In Hallelujah, Tower of Song, A Singer Must Die Jazz Police and the topic is the music itself as a vehicle for his poetry, while Chelsea Hotel is dedicated to her friend Janis Joplin.
Social justice is often present, with a view to having the left but with elements of cultural conservatives, speaks of abortion as something unpleasant and sometimes horrible, like Diamonds in the Mine and The Future. In The Land of Plenty, talks about the negative tone of opulence in the West.
war a cornerstone of his poetry, as in Story of the Street in announcing the inevitable outbreak of a third world war.
In recent years, speaks more of the oppressed and losers as in The Partisan, a song on the French Resistance or in his The Old Revolution.
Cohen joins his pessimism with a large dose of humor and irony as in Tower of Song, Diamond in the Mine and One of Us Can not Be Wrong.
early his career as a songwriter, because of its very nature an introvert, operators of the recording studio they used to rebuild her bedroom, so the poet could overcome fear and to sing and feel at home.
Exit in 1967 but did not get a great success: they were the years of carefree and young hippies. an album that speaks of suicide death and nobody cares.
For this reason, many contemporary reviews stamp out the album as being too sad and depressed.
The redemption would come years later and is now considered his best work, his pearl, a masterpiece ingiustamete underestimated.
All tracks on this The Songs of Leonard Cohen are imbued with a mysticism and a great sadness. A
albums over the years become the basis for many songwriters around the world. The second disc
Song from a Room was released in 1969 and decreed the worldwide success.
The disc contains landmarks such as the beautiful Seems So Long Ago Nancy or the famous Bird on the Wire.
His third album Songs of Love and Hate is defined by some critics as one of the best albums of the year.
After a live, Live Songs, in 1974 he released his fourth studio album New Skin for the Old Ceremony.
in 1977 with Death of a Ladies' Man begins to use a sound less acoustic album involves many musicians including Bob Dylan.
Recent Songs followed in 1979, where the artist returns to a sound more like folk and early in 1984 Various Positions, a folk-rock album not very successful.
Although probably his worst album, contains his most famous hit Halleluja, one of the world's most famous ballads.
released in 1988 I'm Your Man, Leonard left the disk in which guitar to switch to keyboards.
In 1992 he released The Future, which became a global success, the second live out in '94 and in '97 the first collection of hits.
In 2001 their live recorded in 1979 and a new disc of unreleased Ten New Songs.
2002 is the year of release of Greatest Hits and two years after their last studio album, Dear Heather, where Cohen says in addition to singing his poems. The last record release is Live in London 2009.
It 's the first time that I explain in such detail the discography of an artist, but Leonard Cohen is a poet who wrote the pages that have shaped the history of music and modern literature.
Worth a read and listen carefully.
As I always write the music, the real one, listening to always read the text, just so we understand the exact combination of music and words that make a piece of something remaining in the time and still listen to years later (in the music of which I speak even forty or fifty years).
Music must give deep feelings, must shake the soul, when we can have in front of a masterpiece.
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