Marc Cohn
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Marc Cohn (born July 5, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Walking in Memphis" from his eponymous 1991 album Marc Cohn. He has issued two other studio albums to date, The Rainy Season (1993) and Burning the Daze (1998), both on Atlantic Records. A self-released live compilation, Live 04-05 (2005), is being sold at concerts on his current tour.
He won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992. In 1993 he won the 'one-hit-wonder' achievement award from VH1.
On August 7, 2005, Cohn was shot in the head during an attempted carjacking, following a concert with Suzanne Vega in Denver, Colorado. [1]. He was hospitalized and released the next day. His remaining concerts on the tour were cancelled. [2]
He graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. He then attended Oberlin College.
Cohn is married to ABC News journalist Elizabeth Vargas whom he met at the 1999 US Open after being introduced by Andre Agassi[3].
Cohn and Vargas have two sons: Zachary Raphael, who was born on January 31, 2003, and Samuel Wyatt, who was born on August 16, 2006. Cohn has two other children, a son named Max and a daughter named Emily, from a previous marriage.
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