Sharon Robinson (songwriter)

Sharon Robinson
Robinson in 2008
Background information
Born	1958 San Francisco United States
Genres	Folk, folk rock, rock, world, pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	independent
Associated acts	Leonard Cohen

Sharon Robinson (born in San Francisco in 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. 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 The Pointer Sisters, Aaron Neville, Brenda Russell, Diana Ross, Don Henley, Michael Bolton, Randy Crawford, Patti LaBelle, Roberta Flack, The Temptations, and others.

Robinson excelled in school, and as a National Merit semi-finalist she earned a scholarship to Salem College in West Virginia. Halfway to her degree, money and music proved a stronger draw, so she left school to front a touring Top-40 band for several years. Burnout on the road brought her back to college; this time to the California Institute of the Arts to study music.

She toured as back-up singer for Cohen in 1979 and 1980, and then again during 2008–2013. They collaborated on writing his much acclaimed songs "Everybody Knows" and "Waiting for the Miracle", released in 1988 and 1992 respectively. In 2001 she co-wrote, 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 Cohen's 2004 album Dear Heather, and duetted with Cohen on "The Letters".

She was awarded a Grammy in 1985 for the song "New Attitude" (from Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack), recorded by Patti LaBelle.

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