Leonard Cohen on singing with a voice that is true to one’s self. A repost.
I think all singers should listen to this podcast. It's a clip from a 1988 interview I did with Leonard that I decided not to include in my Ebook: Hallelujah: A Conversation with Leonard Cohen, which is about our first interview that re-routed my life and made me decide to become an interviewer. Here we talk about the quest to sing truthfully. Eight years later, during an interview with another of my heroes, Scott Walker, he talked about singers who try to imitate his dark, sad, sonorous voice and said, "but I can always tell when the voice of a singer is not true." So can I. In fact, it is rarely one hear's a voice that is true, in any area of life! Emjoy.
The Joe Jackson Interviews
Joe Jackson is a journalist, interviewer, author and IMRO-Award nominated radio presenter/producer. He has interviewed roughly 1,400 people in the world of the arts, politics, and entertainment for all major media outlets in Ireland, including RTE Radio 1, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, and Hot Press. His articles have been published globally in magazines such as Vox, Rolling Stone, and Snoozer. His radio shows include The Years Go Pop, 26 one-hour documentaries a 26 on the history of popular culture, People Get Ready, 52 one-hour documentaries on the greatest music acts of the 20th century, and Under The Influence, which was nominated for a 'Best Music series' award. In 2018, his documentary about Elvis Presley, Conversations about the King, was nominated for an IMRO Award in the 'Best Music Documentary' category.
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