Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Allison Crowe live performance

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kamikae5 has shared a video with you on YouTube: I am posting to my blog using both my e-mail and my new LG Lotus cell phone. I love my cool new phone. I was way overdue for both an upgrade in cell phones as well as a phone play with data & texting. I'm curious to see how well this entry posts. Also, I've been meaning to post this youtube video for some time now. I find this song haunting & beautiful. There are many verisons, but I find this to be my favorite. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Allison Crowe live performance "It's, as I say, a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion.... It's a rather joyous song." ~ Leonard Cohen, creator of the song, Hallelujah. He says: "I wanted to write something in the tradition of the hallelujah choruses but from a different point of view... It's the notion that there is no perfection ~ that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances." Canadian indie singer-songwriter Allison Crowe's uniquely potent interpretation is heard on her album/CD, "Tidings". (The song enjoys increasingly wide appreciation - even marching into the mainstream recently with performances by American Idol contestant Jason Castro and by UK X Factor winner Alexandra Burke and Dutch X Factor champ Lisa Hordijk. Leonard Cohen himself has b... more
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