Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said: “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of the legendary Leonard Cohen.He will be fondly remembered for his gruff vocals, his self-deprecating humour and the haunting lyrics that made his songs the perennial favourite of so many generations.”<br /><br /> “Dance me to the end of love.”<br />-LEONARD COHEN<br />▶️https://t.co/inmH5tObp5 <br /><br />*Leonard Norman Cohen (1934 – 2016)<br />R.I.P & “Bon Voyage, Monsieur” pic.twitter.com/bl27nzKOMF— Art my Fire (@ArtLify) 11 November 2016<br /><br /> Songwriter, performer and poet Leonard Cohen has passed away at the age of 82. <br /><br /> The beautiful letter Leonard Cohen wrote to the woman he loved as their deaths approached https://t.co/T5eSmwym52 pic.twitter.com/h45caLppvW— Indy Music (@IndyMusic) 11 November 2016<br /><br /> Born in 1934 in Westmount, Quebec into a middle-class Jewish family, Cohen soon<br />developed an admiration for the poetry of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca and a fondness for American country music.<br /><br /> He moved to New York in 1966 at age 31 to break into the music business with a first album ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen’ released in 1967.<br /><br /> Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. <br /><br /> In 2007 American composer Philip Glass put Cohen’s collection of poems ‘Book of Longing’ to music. <br /><br /> Glass spoke of the ease with which Cohen’s words can be put to music:” In the case of Leonard Cohen he is both a songwriter and a poet so he brings a special combination and it makes his works very comfortable to set to music.”<br /><br /> Looks like freedom but it feels like death<br />It’s something in between, I guess<br />It’s closing time . RIP Leonard Cohen. pic.twitter.com/C61FNULS4p— Xabi Alonso (@XabiAlonso) 11 November 2016<br /><br /> Many were distracted by his <br />nasal voice and deep-bass, conversational vocals, but his admirers saw his work as <br />suffused with irony and self-deprecating humor, often touching on his relationship with fame and his reputation as a womaniser.<br /><br /> Something Cohen mocked: “My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.’‘<br />
