Samantha Harvey (author)
Samantha Harvey( born 1975), is an English author.
She completed the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course in 2005, and has also completed a postgraduate course in philosophy and a PhD in Creative Writing.
Her first novel" The Wilderness"( 2009), is written from the point of view of man developing Alzheimer's disease, and describes through increasingly fractured prose the unravelling effect of the disease.
Her second novel," All Is Song"( 2012), is a novel about moral and filial duty, and about the choice between questioning and conforming.
The author has described the novel as a loose, modern day reimagining of the life of Socrates.
Her third novel," Dear Thief", is a long letter from a woman to her absent friend, detailing the emotional fallout of a love triangle.
The novel is said to be based on the Leonard Cohen song Famous Blue Raincoat.
It was published in 2014 by Jonathan Cape.
Her fourth novel," The Western Wind," was published in March 2018.
Her short stories have appeared in Granta Magazine and on BBC Radio 4.
Harvey's novels have been considered for many prizes, including the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Orange Prize.
In 2010 she was named one of the 12 best new British novelists by The Culture Show.
She is a Senior Lecturer on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and a member of the Academy for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
She was a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Song of Bernadette (song)
" Song of Bernadette" is a song written by Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen and Bill Elliott, and first recorded on Jennifer Warnes' 1986 album" Famous Blue Raincoat".
The title refers to Bernadette Soubirous, a young French girl in the mid-19th century who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary on several occasions.
She was canonized by the Catholic Church and proclaimed Saint Bernadette after her death.
Warnes was inspired to write the song on a bus trip near Lourdes:
The song was covered by Bette Midler and opened her 1998 studio album" Bathhouse Betty".
Anne Murray included this song on her two CD set released in 1999 called" What a Wonderful World."
The song was performed as a duet by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt on the former's album," The Grand Tour".
The same performers sang it live on Neville's televised Christmas special.
The title is derived from the novel" The Song of Bernadette", by Franz Werfel.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet, and novelist.
His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death and romantic relationships.
Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.
Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s; he did not launch a music career until 1967, at the age of 33.
His first album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen" (1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: "Songs from a Room" (1969), "Songs of Love and Hate" (1971) and "New Skin for the Old Ceremony" (1974).
His 1977 record "Death of a Ladies' Man", co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was a move away from Cohen's previous minimalist sound.
In 1979, Cohen returned with the more traditional "Recent Songs", which blended his acoustic style with jazz, Oriental, and Mediterranean influences.
Perhaps Cohen's most famous song, "Hallelujah", was first released on his studio album "Various Positions" in 1984.
"I'm Your Man" in 1988 marked Cohen's turn to synthesized productions and remains his most popular album.
In 1992, Cohen released its follow-up, "The Future", which had dark lyrics and references to political and social unrest.
Cohen returned to music in 2001 with the release of "Ten New Songs", which was a major hit in Canada and Europe.
His 11th album, "Dear Heather", followed in 2004.
Following a successful string of tours between 2008 and 2013, Cohen released three albums in the last five years of his life: "Old Ideas" (2012), "Popular Problems" (2014) and
"You Want It Darker" (2016)
, the last of which was released three weeks before his death.
A posthumous album titled "Thanks for the Dance" was released in November 2019, his fifteenth studio album.
Caspar Babypants
Caspar Babypants is the stage name of children's music artist Chris Ballew, who is also widely known as the singer of The Presidents of the United States of America.
Down by the Bay
" Down by the Bay" is a traditional children's song.
A famous version was performed by Raffi and appears on his 1976 album" Singable Songs for the Very Young".
In recent years, the song had gained popularity as a campfire song among the Scouting Movement in Britain.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Famous Blue Raincoat
"Famous Blue Raincoat" is a song by Leonard Cohen.
It is the sixth track on his third album, "Songs of Love and Hate", released in 1971.
The song is written in the form of a letter (many of the lines are written in amphibrachs).
The lyric tells the story of a love triangle among the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the male addressee, who is identified only briefly as "my brother, my killer."
Ain't No Cure for Love
" Ai n't No Cure for Love" is a song written by the Canadian singer- songwriter Leonard Cohen.
It was first released by the American singer Jennifer Warnes on her 1987 Leonard Cohen tribute album" Famous Blue Raincoat" and subsequently appeared as the second track on Cohen's 1988 studio album" I'm Your Man".

Question: Which country the performer of song Famous Blue Raincoat is from?
Answer: Canadian