Singing "Hallelujah" has always been a powerful experience, lang says.Įvery time lang sings the words, she says they evoke imagery in her most other songs don't.īoth lang and Cohen were Buddhists, which might've given them a unique bent on the song.
"I kind of settled on the fact that I can only give him my interpretation of his work, and just laid it out there," she says.
Standing a few feet in front of him, lang drifted into the lyrics of one of Cohen's most spiritual songs. Two years earlier she handpicked "Hallelujah" for her "Hymns of the 49th Parallel," a covers album featuring her favourites from Canadian songwriters.īut she'd never performed the song for Cohen, who died Monday. "I was excruciatingly nervous," lang remembers. It was at his induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006, and she agreed to pay tribute to the legendary singer-songwriter with a rendition of his beloved song. lang cherishes the moment she sang "Hallelujah" for Leonard Cohen.
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