Marc Craig Cohn is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992. Cohn is best known for the song “Walking in Memphis” from his eponymous 1991 album, which was a Top 40 hit.
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“Walking in Memphis” reached number 13 in 1991 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2019, Cohn performed at Carnegie Hall at “The Music of Van Morrison” show, which benefited music education programs for the New York City school system.
Other performers included Patti Smith, Glen Hansard, Bettye LaVette, Blind Boys of Alabama, and Josh Ritter.
Cohn performed “Walking in Memphis” alongside Miley Cyrus at the 2019 Memphis in May Festival as part of the “More Together” Facebook campaign.
“Walking in Memphis” was also the center of a national commercial for the “More Together” campaign. Cohn released Work to Do, a collaboration with the Blind Boys of Alabama, on August 9, 2019.
Cohn and ABC News journalist Elizabeth Vargas married on July 20, 2002. The pair met at the 1999 U.S. Open after Vargas sought an interview with Cohn’s friend, Andre Agassi.
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They have two sons, Zachary (born January 31, 2003) and Samuel (born August 16, 2006). Cohn and Vargas divorced in 2014, days after Vargas came out of rehabilitation for alcoholism for a third time.
On August 7, 2005, Cohn was shot in the head during an attempted carjacking in Denver, Colorado, while on a concert tour with Suzanne Vega. The bullet “barely missed Cohn’s eye and lodged near his skull.”
Cohn survived and was hospitalized for observation, but was released after eight hours. According to Cohn, “Doctors told me I was the luckiest unlucky guy they had met in a long, long time.”
A police spokesperson surmised that the car’s windshield may have significantly impeded the bullet’s force, and added: “Frankly, I can’t tell you how he survived.” The shooter was sentenced to 36 years in prison.
Marc Craig Cohn’s ex-wife, Elizabeth Anne Vargas is an American television journalist who is the lead investigative reporter/documentary anchor for A&E Networks, and the host for Fox’s revival of America’s Most Wanted.
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