Leonard Cohen wins rock album Grammy

Music legend Leonard Cohen posthumously won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.

The singer and songwriter, who passed away in November 2016, beat late musician Chris Cornell to win with "You Want It Darker".

Produced by his son Adam, the album by the longtime Angeleno also won out over "Run" by Foo Fighters, "No Good" by Kaleo and Nothing More's "Go to War"

His posthumous win followed "Star Wars" actor Carrie Fisher getting her first Grammy for her reading of her memoir "The Princess Diarist".

Cohen died in his sleep aged 82 in his Los Angeles home.