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Leonard Cohen was born on the 21st of September, 1934, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His career began in the late 1960's and he grew into a successful singer / songwriter, who is still...

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  • New Film Puts Backup Singers in the Spotlight—for Once

    News Source: Mother Jones | 20 hours ago
    Feet From Stardom" explores the lives and careers of the women behind the rockstars...Feet From Stardom You hear their "oohs" and "aahs" on tons of popular songs, but for most of their careers they are back from the spotlight, their voices secondary
  • The king of the keyboards

    News Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly | 1 day ago
    For every person who finds his instrumentals hard to distinguish from anonymous elevator music and too populist to be considered classical, there's the legion of fans who have bought 75 million of his albums. Clayderman has long been aware that he
  • Berserk!: Berserk!

    News Source: All About Jazz | 2 days ago
    June 16, 2013 Bassist Lorenzo Feliciati is the driving force behind Naked Truth , whose Ouroboros (RareNoise, 2012), featuring trumpeter Graham Haynes , is an invigorating sonic slab of post- Miles Davis post-jazz-rock. Feliciati and vocalist Lorenzo
  • Album: Francoise Hardy, Midnight Blues (Ace)

    News Source: The Independent | 3 days ago
    Suggested Topics Culled from three albums recorded in Paris and London between 1968 and 1972, Hardy sings in English songs by Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Randy Newman, Beverley Martyn, Neil Young and others. It's all very enjoyable, partly due
  • Paperback review: I'm Your Man, By Sylvie Simmons

    News Source: The Independent | 3 days ago
    Suggested Topics It's often a disappointment to read biographies of artists you admire; they can turn out to be much less admirable than their work. This is not the case with Sylvie Simmons's brilliant biography of Leonard Cohen. In a meticulously
  • No Concessions: 20 Feet From Stardom and the Hidden World of Back-Up ...

    News Source: The Fader | 4 days ago
    Michael Zelenko The inspiration for 20 Feet From Stardom , a new documentary about the untold legacy of back-up singers, came to the former chairman of A&M Records, Gil Friesen, after smoking a joint. The late, great kingpin of the record industry
  • Twenty-five years later, host/saxophonist David Sanborn looks back on NBC's ...

    News Source: Nashville Scene | 5 days ago
    Playing Wednesday, 19th at the Schermerhorn On one episode, Leonard Cohen performed a haunting rendition of "Who by Fire" while backed by jazz legend Sonny Rollins. A week later, it was Lou Reed, Gladys Knight and a young Harry Connick Jr. all
  • Retro heartthrobs turn back our clocks

    News Source: Charlotte Observer Online | 5 days ago
    Cabrera scored two Top 10 hits (True and On the Way Down) in 2004 and 2005...The heavily tattooed Texan was recently inked with the likeness of Ryan Gosling (hot and silly) and reunited with his old girlfriend Elvis' granddaughter, actress Riley


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