Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers

Through­out the years, we’ve fea­tured per­for­mances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large ama­teur choir from Toron­to that meets week­ly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgar­den’s “Black Hole Sun” (to hon­or Chris Cor­nell), and Pat­ti Smith’s “Peo­ple Have the Pow­er.” In their lat­est video, they revis­it an old favorite: Leonard Cohen’s “Hal­lelu­jah,” a song released on the 1984 album Var­i­ous Posi­tions. Orig­i­nal­ly over­looked, Cohen’s “Hal­lelu­jah” has since become deeply woven into our cul­tur­al fab­ric. Over the past 40 years, some 300 musi­cians have cov­ered “Hal­lelu­jah,” with Jeff Buck­ley offer­ing per­haps the most cel­e­brat­ed ver­sion. Above, you can watch 4,000 singers come togeth­er and pay their own trib­ute to the song. This per­for­mance took place last year at the Nation­al Arts Cen­tre in Ottawa, Cana­da. Enjoy!

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  • Billypunturi@gmail.com says:

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  • Cynthia Zeitner says:

    If peo­ple only took time to lis­ten to all of Leonard Cohen’s beau­ti­ful inter­est­ing song they would­nt love each one a much as Hal­lelu­jah and the whole world would be singing Last Years Man, Suz­zanne, Joan of Arc and Famous Blue Rain­coat!

  • Linda ventimiglia says:

    This was tru­ly a beau­ti­ful ren­di­tion of the song. How­ev­er, with so many voic­es singing at one time, you can bare­ly under­stand the words I pre­fer to lis­ten to the Pen­ta­tonix song they sing it total­ly a cap­pel­la you can under­stand every word. And they make their own music in a tru­ly won­der­ful way

  • Jennifer craig says:

    I so agree with you

  • Jay says:

    I thought it was cool

  • Christy S says:

    I was in many choirs over the years-church and school-and though I don’t have the voice that I used to any­more (I’m 71yo) I would love to sing and absorbed with­in a choir such as this. It would be joy­ful !!!

  • Doris says:

    Thanks for shar­ing your voic­es with me. It made my night. Did you make a CD? You all should try on Amer­i­ca’s got tal­ent. God bless you all.

  • Gloria Checchi says:

    So incred­i­bly beau­ti­ful. My heart holds this song and my tears back it up. I love the many voic­es like a her­ald of angels. Makes me want to get to Heav­en soon­er. Oh how I wish I had the gift of singing. God saw oth­er­wise. He gave me the gift of writ­ing poet­ry and books. We all have a gift giv­en by God. Some peo­ple nev­er real­ize it.If you are one of those peo­ple, just ask God to reveal it to you.

  • Michelle leonard says:

    Ur such beau­ti­ful souls and soon very proud of you. Ur my heros!¡

  • Teresa Smith says:

    I gift­ed & sur­prised 2 of my 3 daugh­ters a cou­ple of years ago to sing with Choir Choir Choir. They loved the expe­ri­ence. It is amaz­ing the tal­ent to be suc­cess­ful in join­ing this many beau­ti­ful souls singing in uni­son.

  • Llewella Looney says:

    Just won­der­ful! Amaz­ing! Mov­ing! Thank you!

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