Death case: funeral for legendary Pop-poet Leonard Cohen – THE WORLD

date: 11.11.2016 read | write duration: 3 minutes

Cohen at a concert in 2008

Cohen at a concert in 2008

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canadian singer and Poet with 82 years, died

Dhe world mourns the loss of the music legend, Leonard Cohen. The canadian singer and Poet died at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, his record company announced in the night to Friday. “We have one of the most revered and the most prolific Visionary in the music of lost,” it said. Grieving Fans gathered in front of the Cohen’s house in Montreal. There, the musician was buried on a Jewish cemetery.

In the 1960s, the Singer-Songwriter became one of the formative figures of the alternative culture in North America. His poetic, with a sonorous voice presented Songs made Cohen is world-renowned, they have been interpreted over the decades by many other artists. Songs like “Suzanne” and “So Long Marianne” made him to be a singer-songwriter icon. His Hit song “Hallelujah” was covered again by other artists.

Cohen was. in 1934, the son of a wealthy Jewish family born in Montréal, where he also grew up In his artistic career, Cohen initially practiced as a poet, then turned to but the music is initially more hesitant, but ultimately with great success.

The last years of his life spent Cohen mainly in California. The funeral service for the late artist to be held in Los Angeles, as on Cohen’s Website without specifying a date indicated.

The news of your death was recorded in Cohen’s home, with dismay. The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau said: “Leonard, the poetry and music of any other artist sound like Your. We will miss You.” Cohen’s music was “so many generations” popular he was as an artist, “today is as significant as in the 60s”.

Montreal’s mayor Denis Coderre grief flagging ordered for the city. He paid tribute to Cohen in the short message service Twitter as “one of our biggest ambassadors”. Prior to the Cohen’s house in the district of Plateau, dozens of Mourners gathered immediately. They lit candles, laid down flowers and sang the biggest Hits of their idol.

Cohen had already been on Thursday at a Jewish cemetery in Montreal was buried, was quoted by the newspaper “La Presse” from a statement of Rabbi Adam Scheier . He was buried next to his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. During the mourning ceremony the line “Hineni, Hineni, my Lord” (“I am willing, Lord”), and other quotes from the song, “You want it Darker” from Cohen’s most recent Album had been delivered.

foreign Minister Steinmeier paid tribute to Cohen as a “fixed star in the Pop Firmament”. “With Leonard Cohen, one of the giants of music is gone after David Bowie and Prince, again,” Steinmeier explained in Berlin. The canadian singer got accompanied “with its wonderfully melancholic Songs and his unmistakable voice over the decades, millions of people”.

in Israel, the death of the Jewish singer sparked great sorrow. “Thank you for everything You left us,” wrote the head of state Reuven Rivlin on Facebook. The head of government Benjamin Netanyahu, said that Cohen was a “talented artist and warm-hearted Jew,” I have loved the state of Israel and its people.

was awarded The Recording Academy in the US, Cohen 2010, a Grammy for his life’s work, praised him as an “exceptional Talent”, the “countless singer-songwriter deeply” influenced. “He will terribly be missed,” said Academy President Neil Portnow.

Only last month, Cohen had brought his last plate, “You Want It Darker”. In the song, he sat apart with their own mortality. His own death he had, apparently, come: In a letter to the death of his longtime girlfriend, Marianne Ihlen, who died in July, he had written: “I think I’m going to follow You very soon.”