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 including Aaron Neville Diana Ross Don Henley Randy Crawford and others She toured as backup singer for Cohen in 1979 and 1980 and again in 2008 and 2009 They collaborated on writing his much acclaimed songs Everybody Knows and Waiting for the Miracle released in 1988 and 1992 respectively In 2001 she cowrote produced arranged and performed the backing tracks as well as appearing alongside Cohen on the cover for his album Ten New Songs Robinson also contributed to three tracks on Cohens 2004 album Dear Heather and duetted with Cohen on The Letters She was awarded a Grammy in 1985 for the song New Attitude from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack recorded by Patti LaBelle In 2004 Sharon Robinson gave a fulllength interview discussing her life career and work with Leonard Cohen available on her site In 2005 Robinsons new song The High Road was performed by Bettye LaVette on her album Ive Got My Own Hell to Raise which was picked as 59 at Amazons best of 2005 Editors picks Robinsons recent work also includes the songs written for Chris Botti In 2015 Robinson released a fourtrack EP titled Sharon Robinson EP 1 covering songs by Tom Waits Otis Redding Bruce Hornsby and Eric Clapton After her second 2015 tour was postponed she toured in Europe again in August and September 2016 In August 2016 she was the guest of honor at the 10th Leonard Cohen Event held in Amsterdam