Leonard Cohen (b. September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) represents the quintessential marriage of extraordinary artistry and sharp, poignant intellect. Known primarily as a folk singer/songwriter, Cohen is equally a brilliant poet and novelist compared to the likes of James Joyce or Henry Miller. It was not until 1967, at which time Cohen was well in his thirties, that he released his debut album, The Songs of Leonard Cohen; by this time he was an internationally celebrated writer, and so it is that same literary base which elevates Cohen’s musical work to the heights of genius. Including such songs as “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy” and “So Long, Marianne,” the album is a melancholy masterpiece of insight and observation. His next album, the dark and minimalist Songs from a Room, was released in 1969 and includes such powerful songs as the sparse classic “Bird on the Wire” and the anti-war “The Story of Isaac.” The 1970s was another highly prolific decade for Cohen, with the release of albums such as Songs of Love and Hate (1971,) Live Songs (1973,) and, after a tour of Israeli army bases during the Yom Kippur War, New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974,) Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977,) and Recent Songs (1979.) In 1984, Cohen released the critically acclaimed Various Positions, a more modern-sounding collection of songs prominently featuring vocalist Jennifer Warnes and including the masterpiece “Hallelujah,” later famously covered by Jeff Buckley. Cohen spent a considerable amount of the 1990s in deep seclusion at a Zen Buddhist retreat in California, eventually becoming ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk under the name Jikjan. After leaving the retreat in 1999, he began collaborating with singer/songwriter Sharon Robinson for 2001’s Ten New Songs, and in 2004 released the experimental and far less somber Dear Heather, his first collaboration with jazz singer/songwriter Anjani Thomas. Leonard Cohen – the singer/songwriter, poet, novelist and thinker – stands among the “highest and most influential echelon of songwriters,” combining a dark, explicit and bitterly ironical tone with lush and deeply romantic sensuality to discuss, like none other, such themes as love, religion, isolation, sexuality, death and beauty. For this reason Leonard Cohen remains one of the most fascinating artistic figures of our times.
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It is my sincere wish that You're day is tranquil And You're week be one of serenity. As Mae West once said: "Anyone who says they can see through a man is missing a lot."
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Thank you to all my new friends, wow God is at work with people and we see the coming getting so close that we can only hold our hands in Praise for the One who will come. I love all of you and want to encourage and help give some kind of hope that we are all going through a time in history that will change the best into more than we can amagine. He is more that we can fathem and his promise will stand for every in our minds. Funny how you see so much love coming from one place right now and it's in all of you. We have asked in faith and in groups of one or more and God is faithful to give us the hopes and incouragement we need to get through this worlds problems. I truely beleive in my own heart and the signs of the times, that we are all in a special season right now and God is using every one of us for his will and you will feel that it's his hand every time something happens in the realm of his garments.. Oh what a Freind we have in Jesus Christ our Lord...... Love to all new friends and OH how much I love all my friends who have encouraged me on this God space.... Love Chuck
P.S. Please say a special prayer for Cherry and then comment her with some incouragment and love as we see God will being done in her life as a great person who has encouraged me and others.. We love you Cherry and Pray today again and again in His Name Jesus Christ
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