Nice article from Far Out Magazine!
Who were Leonard Cohen’s most important backing singers?
Over the years, Cohen has counted over 50 separate singers among his choir of backing vocalists, but some had a bigger impact than others on his career.
You can’t talk about Leonard Cohen without talking about Sharon Robinson, who co-wrote many of his greatest songs, such as ‘Everybody Knows’, ‘Waiting for the Miracle’ and the entirety of his 2001 album Ten New Songs, which she also produced. Having first joined his army on stage in 1979 for many spiritual and transcendent nights on the road, Robinson was a mainstay until Cohen’s final shows in 2013 and continued to record with her old friend until his death.
Outside of her work with Leonard Cohen, Robinson is a Grammy-winning songwriter, recognised for her 1985 song ‘New Attitude’, which was sung by Patti LaBelle. She has also written songs for and performed with artists like Aaron Neville, Diana Ross, Roberta Flack, The Temptations and Bettye LaVette, among others…
