{"id":40965,"date":"2018-01-30T00:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T06:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=40965"},"modified":"2018-01-30T00:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T06:09:33","slug":"leonard-cohen-and-carrie-fisher-win-posthumous-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/leonard-cohen-and-carrie-fisher-win-posthumous-grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Cohen and Carrie Fisher win posthumous Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 After more than a dozen albums and a little more than a year after his death, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen won his first Grammy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40966\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40966\" class=\"wp-image-40966 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40966\" class=\"wp-image-40966 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-463907932.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-40966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Fisher shown in 2015. (Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images for US-Ireland Alliance)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cohen posthumously won the award for best rock performance at Sunday night\u2019s Grammy Awards in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The winning tune is the title track from his final album, \u201cYou Want It Darker,\u201d which was released 19 days before his death in the fall of 2016. The song also happens to be one of Cohen\u2019s most Jewish performances, including Hebrew phrases (\u201cHineni, hineni,\u201d or \u201cHere I am\u201d) and chants from the choir of the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue in Montreal, Cohen\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen was not the only Jewish performer to earn a posthumous Grammy: Actress Carrie Fisher won best spoken word album for \u201cThe Princess Diarist,\u201d the audiobook version of her memoir released just weeks before her sudden death at 60 in December 2016. Fisher portrayed Princess Leia in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>There were other Jewish moments, too. Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb won best children\u2019s album for \u201cFeel What U Feel,\u201d her fourth record of children\u2019s music, and Jewish composer Justin Hurwitz won best soundtrack for visual media for his work on the Oscar-winning film \u201cLa La Land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the show, the Jewish actor and singer Ben Platt performed a touching tribute to 21-time Grammy winner Leonard Bernstein. Platt, who originated the role of the title character in the Broadway hit \u201cDear Evan Hansen,\u201d performed \u201cSomewhere\u201d from Bernstein\u2019s \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d The album \u201cLeonard Bernstein \u2013 The Composer,\u201d won a Grammy for best historical album.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Leonard%20Cohen%20and%20Carrie%20Fisher%20win%20posthumous%20Grammy%20Awards\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7137],"tags":[9173,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40967,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965\/revisions\/40967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}