Part of an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family, he was encouraged by his parents to pursue his interests in poetry and music and was also thoroughly immersed in Jewish theology and the stories of the Old Testament. Early Life and the Buckskin BoysĬohen was born on September 21, 1934, in a suburb of Montreal, Canada. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, and he received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2010. One of his most famous compositions is "Hallelujah," a song released on 1984's Various Positions. By the mid-1960s, Cohen began to compose and release folk-rock and pop songs. Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was a writer and guitarist from an early age.
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