Marc Cohn

Marc Cohn (born July 5, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Walking In Memphis" from his self-titled 1991 album Marc Cohn. He has issued two other studio albums to date, The Rainy Season (1993) and Burning the Daze (1998), both on Atlantic Records. A self-released live compilation, Live 04-05, (2005) is being sold at concerts on his current tour.

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He won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, the year after the famous Milli Vanilli incident.

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On August 7, 2005, Cohn was shot in the head during an attempted carjacking, following a concert with Suzanne Vega in Denver, Colorado. . He was hospitalized and released the next day. His remaining concerts on the tour have been cancelled.

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He is the most famous graduate of Beachwood High School in Beachwood, Ohio, a heavily Jewish Cleveland suburb. He attended Oberlin College. Cohn is married to ABC News journalist Elizabeth Vargas. They have one child. He has two children from a previous marriage.

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July 5: July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining....

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