Leonard Norman Cohen is a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. His works explore religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death and romantic relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Canadian Order, the country's highest civilian honor. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for Literature and the Ninth Glenn Gould Prize. Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist in the 1950s and early 1960s, and didn't start a musical career until 1967 at the age of 33. His debut album, Songs by Leonard Cohen , followed by three other folk music albums: One-Piece Songs, Love and Hate Songs, and New Skin for the Old Ceremony. His 1977 recording of Death of a Ladies' Man, co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was cut off from Cohen's earlier minimalist sound.

Songwriter who has earned a Juno Award for intimate songs such as"Suzanne" and"Hallelujah". Over the course of his career, which spanned the 1960s to the 2010s, he released over a dozen albums.