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John Lissauer. " Hallelujah " is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, [1] the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale's version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley that in 2004 was ...
Hallelujah is a transliteration of Hebrew: הַלְלוּ יָהּ (hallū yāh), which means "praise ye Jah!" (from הַלְלוּ , "praise ye!" [8] and יָהּ , "Jah".) [9][10][11] The word hallēl in Hebrew means a joyous praise in song. The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH (Yahweh or Jehovah in modern English).
A deep dive into the origin story of the singer's best-known song — and its unlikely ascension into the pop canon — doubles as a portrait of an artist as an accidental genius
First We Take Manhattan. " First We Take Manhattan " is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was originally recorded by American singer Jennifer Warnes on her 1986 Cohen tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat, which consisted entirely of songs written or co-written by Cohen.
If Leonard Cohen built a tower of just one song, it was “Hallelujah” — the subject of a film that hits theaters in July, “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.” That documentary ...
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, from filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine stresses that many artist cover the poplar tune, like Jeff Buckley, ultimately the Canadian artist is ...
Leonard Cohen singles chronology. " Take This Waltz ". (1986) "First We Take Manhattan". (1988) " Take This Waltz " is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, originally released as part of the 1986 Federico García Lorca tribute album Poets in New York[1] and as a single. The song was later included in Cohen's 1988 studio album I'm ...
The remarkable story behind this joyful word. December 20, 2021 at 8:00 AM. Grant Gershon conducts the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Rachmaninoff's "All Night Vigil," in which Hallelujah takes on ...