More recently, the song was performed at U.S. lang sang it to a global audience of three billion. At the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, k.d.
In 2001, Jeff Buckley’s cover played repeatedly on VH1 over images of the September 11 th attacks as a memorial. It also has become a go-to for sombre occasions. “Hallelujah” has been featured on television and film soundtracks from Shrek, to The X-Factor, to The Watchmen. Cohen’s biographer Sylvie Simmons estimated in 2012 that the song had been covered by more than 300 artists, a number likely much higher now. Few songs become “standards” these days, but Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is one of them.
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