--- title: Peter Hollens Cover of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen: Full Audio description: It's by Peter Hollens, featuring Jackie Evancho canonical: https://time.com/3629078/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-peter-hollens-cover/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-10T22:39:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:15.778Z og:title: Listen to This Beautiful Cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" og:description: This cover by Peter Hollens, featuring Jackie Evancho, will get you into the holiday spirit og:url: https://time.com/3629078/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-peter-hollens-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Listen to This Beautiful Cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" twitter:description: This cover by Peter Hollens, featuring Jackie Evancho, will get you into the holiday spirit twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Beautiful Cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' Will Get You in the Holiday Spirit  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 10, 2014 10:39 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 10, 2014 10:39 PM UTC A cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” by singer-songwriter Peter Hollens is going viral, thanks to a stirring a cappella arrangement featuring Jackie Evancho. Hollens appeared on season 2 of NBC’s _The Sing-Off,_ and has been [compared to](https://medium.com/a-cappella/why-peter-hollens-pentatonix-are-the-future-of-a-cappella-84a9231c2bc3) Pentatonix, another group made famous by the a cappella competition show. [Evancho](http://www.jackieevancho.com/content/biography), a 14-year-old soprano, has performed on _America’s Got Talent_ and at the National Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington, D.C. Below is Leonard Cohen’s original for reference: ### Hollywood Stars Who Took to Broadway  Michelle Williams made her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in the first Broadway revival of Cabaret. Joan Marcus—Roundabout Theatre  Bryan Cranston plays President Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way in his Broadway debut in March 2014. Evgenia Eliseeva—Jeffrey Richards Associates/AP  A veteran of the stage, Sir Ian McKellen made his Broadway debut in The Promise in 1967\. Above, he plays Estragon in Waiting for Godot in 2014. Joan Marcus—Boneau/Bryan-Brown/AP  Bradley Cooper starred opposite Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain in 2006. Joan Marcus—AP  Daniel Craig, right, and Hugh Jackman are shown in a scene from A Steady Rain. Joan Marcus—The Hartman Group/AP  Jude Law made his Broadway debut in 1995 performing in Indiscretions. and returned in 2009 to star in Hamlet as its namesake character. Johan Persson—AP  Jane Lynch made her Broadway debut as Miss Hannigan in Annie in 2013\. Above, she is seen performing her role on stage at the 67th Annual Tony Awards Evan Agostini—AP  Patrick Stewart, left, and Ian McKellen star in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. Joan Marcus—Boneau/Bryan-Brown/AP  When she wasn't off saving the world as Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson made her Broadway debut as Catherine in the 2010 play A View From The Bridge. Joan Marcus—AP  Katie Holmes played Ann Deever in her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Joan Marcus—Boneau/Bryan-Brown/AP  Famous for being the boy who lived, Daniel Radcliffe, left, took his talents to the stage and debuted on Broadway in Equus in 2008. Carol Rosegg—AP  Al Pacino appeared as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice in 2010. Joan Marcus—AP  Andrew Garfield played Biff in his Broadway debut in the 2012 revival of Death of a Salesman. Brigitte Lacombe—Boneau/Bryan-Brown/AP  Tom Hanks finally added a Broadway role to his impressive resume when he played Mike McAlary in the 2013 original play Lucky Guy. Dario Cantatore—AP  Best known for her hit song "Call Me Maybe," Carly Rae Jepsen played the titular character in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella in 2014. Kristina Bumphrey—AP  Jepsen is accompanied in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella by Fran Drescher, who made her Broadway debut as the wicked step mother. Kristina Bumphrey—AP  Yes, even Diddy has performed on Broadway. Rap Mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, left, made his Broadway debut as Walter Lee Younger in the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun. 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