“Suzanne”: the legendary hippie muse behind Leonard Cohen’s global hit
Story It was his meeting with the dancer-performer Suzanne Verdal on the banks of the Saint-Laurent in Montreal that inspired the singer and poet to write the song that brought him to the world's attention in the 1960s. A huge success that would not distance the muse of the folk legend from her bohemian life or from precariousness.
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Pale-faced, smoky-eyed, and a small doll under her arm, Suzanne Verdal walks the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Mysterious and intense, the dancer-performer possesses a magnetism that stirs passions. In Old Montreal in the early sixties , she inspired photographers and poets of the Beat Generation. Among them, the young Leonard Cohen, already known for his writings. Like her, he frequented the Bistro, a café popular with artists located on rue de la…
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