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Sharon Robinson
Sharon Robinson is an American songwriter, record producer, and vocalist. She is best known as a frequent writing collaborator with Leonard Cohen, although she has written songs for a number of other artists as well.
She toured as back-up singer for Cohen in 1979 and 1980. They later collaborated on writing his much acclaimed songs "Everybody Knows" and "Waiting for the Miracle", released in 1988 and 1992 respectively. In 2001 she co-wrote, produced, arranged and performed the backing tracks for his album Ten New Songs. Robinson also contributed to three tracks on Cohen's 2004 album Dear Heather.
She was awarded a Grammy in 1985 for the song "New Attitude", recorded by Patti Labelle. Sharon Robinson recently gave her full-length interview discussing her life, career and work with Leonard Cohen (available on her site).
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