She performed in jazz clubs before meeting producer John Lissauer, who hired her to provide backup vocals on Leonard Cohen's influential song "Hallelujah" from Various Positions.
"Came So Far for Beauty" seems to be an unaltered outtake from the unfinished 1975 album Songs for Rebecca (the horns may have been added later), which also included early versions of "The Traitor" and "The Smokey Life" (then with music by John Lissauer).
His son John is a composer and arranger of music, and has done the scores for several popular movies.
After the abandoned 1975 project Songs for Rebecca Leonard Cohen again joined forces with producer John Lissauer.
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