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Something of an acquired taste due to his minimalistic approach to music, often dark tone and average-to-middling ability to actually sing in tune, Cohen is nevertheless regarded as one of the finest and most influential songwriters alive today. His songs have been frequently covered by other artists, with ''Hallelujah'' - most famously covered by [[Jeff Buckley]] - being the most prominent example, and he was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
Cohen was private and something of a hermit (he spent many years living in a Zen commune atop Mount Baldy, where he was known as ''Jikan,'' "The Silent One"), but after 2005, where his manager, Kelley Lynch, almost completely emptied his pension account and ran away with the money, Cohen started touring again in 2008 at age 73. He died at the age of 82 on the 10th of November 2016, three weeks after his final album ''You Want It Darker'' was released. (However, he was working on an R&B album when he passed away...)
Also, Phil Spector once threatened him with a loaded gun. But that's not important.
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