Biography

Grammy-winning songwriter Sharon Robinson’s solo career officially began in 2008 with her stunning debut album, Everybody Knows. Her solo bow garnered critical acclaim and Sharon mesmerized audiences with her smoldering live performances. After six years on the road with Leonard Cohen, Sharon then wrote and produced her second solo album, Caffeine, a collection of new compositions encompassing soul, rhythm and blues, folk and jazz.

In 2015, she released a new book of intimate original photography spanning her time touring with Leonard Cohen entitled “On Tour With Leonard Cohen, Photographs by Sharon Robinson” from powerHouse Books. In conjunction with this release, Robinson also showcased her work with exhibitions at the prestigious Morrison Hotel Galleries in New York and Los Angeles.

In 2015, Sharon released an EP of cover songs entitled “EP 1”. She has since completed two highly successful tours of Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2017-2018, she was a featured artist in the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal’s “Une brèche en toute chose/A Crack in Everything”, a memorial tribute exhibition to Leonard Cohen for which she composed a new original song, “Goodbye Stranger”.

For over thirty years, Sharon has been associated with Leonard Cohen as a co-writer, producer, and vocalist.  She co-wrote and produced Cohen’s 2001 album, Ten New Songs, one of Rolling Stone’s “Top 100 Albums of the Decade”. A Grammy-winning songwriter, Sharon’s work has been covered by artists as diverse as Patti LaBelle, Don Henley, Aaron Neville, The Pointer Sisters, Roberta Flack, and Sigrid, to name just a few.