How did a Finn become the webmaster of a Canadian cultural icon?
“I had listened to Cohen since the ’70s. After the Helsinki concerts of 1988 and 1993, I began collecting rare recording material from Cohen and subsequently found the Cohen Newsletter, which was published in England. When the newsletter was discontinued in 1994, we had just gotten an Internet connection in our home and were excited about the possibilities it presented. “Together with my then teenage son we searched for a topic on which to create a website, and my interest in Cohen made him a natural choice. The website was designed for an international audience from the start, and we opened the site in the fall of 1995. I supplied the content for the pages while Rauli took care of all technical issues. Since then I have learned to code and have acquired the skills necessary to create the web pages myself. “We did not intend to make the pages as vast as they turned out, but we soon realized that Cohen’s art had a global fan base that had lacked a channel for communication. Soon we star
