An announcement on his authority Facebook page said: "It is with significant distress we report that amazing writer, lyricist and craftsman Leonard Cohen has passed away.
"We have lost one of music's most venerated and productive visionaries."
A dedication will happen in Los Angeles at a later date, and it is not openly known how or where he passed on.
Numerous stars have taken to online networking to pay tribute to Leonard Cohen
Performing at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970
Leonard Cohen performing at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970
Leonard Cohen performing in 1974
Leonard Cohen envisioned in a London lodging room in 1979
Performing on the Pyramid arrange amid day three of the Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, 2008
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Cohen performing at the Montreux jazz celebration in 2013
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Cohen performing at the Montreux jazz celebration in 2013
"We are pleased and feel to a great degree advantaged to have praised his imaginativeness over a vocation spreading over six decades."
Cohen was conceived in Canada in 1934, and far from his musical vocation delighted in basic approval as a writer and author.
When he was 31, he moved to New York to break into the music business - and after a short time, faultfinders were contrasting him with Bob Dylan for the melodious compel of his songwriting.
A couple of months back, his dream and previous darling Marianne Ihlen - the subject of his melody So Long Marianne - additionally passed away.
In a letter he apparently sent to Ihlen before her demise, Cohen composed: "Well Marianne, it's resulted in these present circumstances time when we are truly so old and our bodies are breaking apart and I think I will tail you soon.
"Realize that I am so not far behind you that on the off chance that you extend your hand, I think you can achieve
"We have lost one of music's most venerated and productive visionaries."
A dedication will happen in Los Angeles at a later date, and it is not openly known how or where he passed on.
Numerous stars have taken to online networking to pay tribute to Leonard Cohen
Performing at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970
Leonard Cohen performing at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970
Leonard Cohen performing in 1974
Leonard Cohen envisioned in a London lodging room in 1979
Performing on the Pyramid arrange amid day three of the Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, 2008
Leonard …show more content…
Cohen performing at the Montreux jazz celebration in 2013
Picture Caption:
Cohen performing at the Montreux jazz celebration in 2013
"We are pleased and feel to a great degree advantaged to have praised his imaginativeness over a vocation spreading over six decades."
Cohen was conceived in Canada in 1934, and far from his musical vocation delighted in basic approval as a writer and author.
When he was 31, he moved to New York to break into the music business - and after a short time, faultfinders were contrasting him with Bob Dylan for the melodious compel of his songwriting.
A couple of months back, his dream and previous darling Marianne Ihlen - the subject of his melody So Long Marianne - additionally passed away.
In a letter he apparently sent to Ihlen before her demise, Cohen composed: "Well Marianne, it's resulted in these present circumstances time when we are truly so old and our bodies are breaking apart and I think I will tail you soon.
"Realize that I am so not far behind you that on the off chance that you extend your hand, I think you can achieve