Leonard Cohen Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:40:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Leonard Cohen Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Canada Loses Leonard Cohen, Songwriter, Poet https://teachingkidsnews.com/2016/11/14/canada-loses-leonard-cohen-songwriter-poet/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2016/11/14/canada-loses-leonard-cohen-songwriter-poet/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:24:33 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=15804 Leonard Cohen, one of Canada's best-known songwriters and poets, has died at the age of 82.

He wasn't "born with the gift of a golden voice," as one of his songs famously put it. In fact, his voice was deep, gravelly and could even said to be tuneless. But that was part of his charm.

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