Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships.
He has two grandchildren. Even though not much is known about Lyon.
Wainwright and Cohen’s daughter, Lorca, have a child together. Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen was born in 2011.
Leonard Cohen grandchildren: Meet Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen, Lyon Cohen
In an interview with the Daily Record, Wainwright explained how he and Lorca became parents. In part, this was the dying wish of his mother, the late folk legend, Kate McGarrigle.
“I’d known for years that Lorca had wanted to have a child and had mentioned me as having an opportunity to be the father. When my mother’s health started to fail, it coincided with Lorca’s desire to be a mother heightening, and she kind of popped the question.
Leonard Norman Cohen was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934.
His Lithuanian mother, Marsha (“Masha”) Klonitsky (1905–1978), emigrated to Canada in 1927 and was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline.
His paternal grandfather, whose family had moved from Poland to Canada, was Canadian Jewish Congress founding president Lyon Cohen. His parents gave him the Jewish name Eliezer, which means “God helps”.
