Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist who died on November 7, 2016.
Religion, politics, loneliness, sadness, sexuality, loss, death, and personal relationships were all themes he incorporated into his work. In 2011, he was awarded one of the Prince of Asturias Literature Awards and the eighth Glenn Gould Prize. He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor.
Leonard Cohen grandchildren: Meet Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen, Lyon Cohen
Viva Katherine and Lyon, his grandchildren are both children of his only daughter Lorca Cohen. They are still minors so their digital footprint is very scanty.
Cohen was born on September 21, 1934, in Westmount, Quebec, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His Lithuanian mother, the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline, immigrated to Canada in 1927.
As a teenager, he trained himself to play the acoustic guitar and established the Buckskin Boys, a country-folk band.
He converted to classical guitar after learning a few chords and some flamenco from a young Spanish guitarist. He credits his love of music to his mother’s singing, who used to sing songs at home.
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