Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. His musical career has largely overshadowed his prior work as a poet and novelist, although he has continued to publish poetry sporadically after his breakthrough in the music industry.

Family life

Cohen has never married. In the 1960s he lived with Marianne Jensen (now: Ihlen) and her son Axel (son of the Norwegian author Axel Jensen) at Hydra. The song "So Long, Marianne" is about her.

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1960s - Axel Jensen - Hydra

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He fathered two children with artist Suzanne Elrod. A son, Adam, was born in 1972 and a daughter, Lorca, named after poet Federico García Lorca, was born in 1974. Adam Cohen began his own career as a singer-songwriter in the mid-1990s.

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Suzanne Elrod - 1972 - Federico García Lorca - 1974 - 1990s

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Contrary to popular belief, "Suzanne," one of his best-known songs, refers to Suzanne Vaillancourt, the wife of his friend, the Québécois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, rather than Elrod.

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Around 1990, Cohen was romantically linked, and by some accounts formally engaged, to actress Rebecca De Mornay.

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