1991 | Canadian Music Hall of Fame | Leonard Cohen | | The JUNO Awards

Leonard Cohen is many things to many people: poet, novelist, singer, songwriter, monk. But to all, is a legend.

He was born in the English-speaking Montreal neighbourhood of Westmount on September 21, 1934. His earliest musical venture was a country and western square dance band, the Buckskin Boys, co-founded with a childhood friend while Cohen studied English at McGill University.

 

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