For part of the 1990s, Cohen lived in a Zen Buddhist monastery in the San Gabriel Mountains just outside Los Angeles, where he handled tasks as menial as cleaning toilets.Ĭohen, who never married, is survived by his daughter, Lorca, and his son, Adam. The inspiration for So Long, Marianne was Cohen’s longtime romantic partner and muse Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian woman he met while living on the Greek island of Hydra in the 1960s. Hammond signed him to Columbia Records, which would remain Cohen’s label for five decades.Ĭohen toured widely but also sought solace in meditation, far from the public eye. Cohen’s other well-known songs include Suzanne, So Long, Marianne, Famous Blue Raincoat and The Future among others. The woman who was Leonard Cohen's muse and inspired songs like 'Bird on a Wire' and 'So Long, Marianne' has died. How sad and unfulfilling must be the life of a muse Granted, this is probably not the.
Living on grant money from the Canadian government and an inheritance from his family, Cohen published in the 1960s the poetry collections “The Spice-Box of Earth” and “Flowers for Hitler” and novels “The Favourite Game” and “Beautiful Losers.”īut disillusioned with his meager income, Cohen turned to songwriting and landed an audition in 1967 with John Hammond, the producer who had discovered Dylan. (Courtesy Roadside Attractions) This article is more than 3 years old. He attended McGill University in Montreal and published his first book of poetry shortly after graduation. Jack Robinson/Getty Images Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen wrote a touching letter to his former muse Marianne Ihlen, who. Born into a Jewish family in 1934 and raised in an affluent English-speaking neighborhood of the city, Cohen read Spanish poet Federico García Lorca as a teenager, learned to play guitar from a flamenco musician and formed a country band called the Buckskin Boys.
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