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Lang was also nominated for several Grammy Awards in 1993, including album, song, and record of the year. She won best female pop vocal performance for "Constant Craving," and lost in the same category the following year for "Miss Chatelaine." I want to skip ahead a little bit to 1985, and you win the Juno Award for most promising female vocalist. You wear this big, fluffy wedding dress and you're whipping around the stage and you're doing a jig. What do you remember about that? A year later, she took her career in a more conventional direction, albeit marginally. lang was an androgyne from rural Canada who considered herself to be the reincarnation of Patsy Cline, convinced she was born to be a country star. Even in outlaw terms, she was a long shot in conservative Nashville, a city nonetheless seduced by her punky verve and saucy rambunctiousness, a hay-bale alternative to the genre’s burgeoning cosmopolitanism. She was accepted, to a degree—her vegetarianism and PETA allegiance notwithstanding—but lang knew that acceptance was creative death. By the early ’90s, she felt that she had exploited country’s full creative potential. Now was time to develop her own romantic language. The 35th Grammy Awards Nominations: General Categories". Los Angeles Times. January 8, 1993 . Retrieved September 30, 2011.

While a student at Red Deer College, Lang appeared in a production about Patsy Cline. During rehearsals, she became entranced with the life and music of the country music legend. Subsequently, after graduating from college, Lang began to pursue her own music career. With musician and songwriting partner Ben Mink, Lang formed a group called the Reclines in Patsy's honor. Country Singer When she started recording music in the '80s, lang became one of the most exciting artists on country radio, challenging expectations with her androgynous look and cat's-eye glasses. This is part of a series of articles about the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards laureates. The inspiration behind "Constant Craving" was all forms of love, not just desire for another human.Lindemann, Christoph (2006). "K.D. Lang: Ingénue". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Publishing. p.688. ISBN 978-0-7893-1371-3. On February 16, 2020, she performed at Fire Fight Australia at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia. This was a concert organised to raise money for those affected by the 2019 bushfires in Australia. One of her performances included a rendition of Leonard Cohen's classic song, "Hallelujah". The demands on artists to keep setting and achieving goals is something that “goes past the industry”, lang says. “I think it’s our social construct now. I think we have people who are being successful way into their 90s. I just feel like I’m putting all of my energy into family and into life, which is something I sacrificed a little for the years I was involved in the music business full-time. I feel like it’s a balancing moment for me in life.” k.d. lang hits watershed moment". News24. February 6, 2008. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014 . Retrieved February 16, 2010.

Kathryn Dawn Lang OC AOE (born November 2, 1961), known by her [a] stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Lang has won Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances. Hits include the songs " Constant Craving" and " Miss Chatelaine". lang’s concerns are always widening. She talks about the “insanities” in the US and dedicates songs to environmentalist Greta Thunberg and gun control campaigner Emma González. When she urges everyone to turn the world’s rising hatred into love, it’s more heartfelt plea than cheesy patter. The encores include a beautiful reworking of Neil Young’s Helpless and a version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah wherein lang holds every note like a prayer. These days, lang feels that she has little left to prove. “I think now I feel like I’ve pretty much accomplished everything I want to accomplish, so there’s a more of a relaxed easiness… it’s really [about] the joy of music and connecting with the audience and letting the musicians stand out.” Not a lot of people can say that, and lang seems slightly perplexed by “some sort of social or external pressure for me to keep needing to succeed, but I don’t really feel like I need to”. Portland's own k.d. lang on her Oregon Zoo concert and moving to the Rose City". The Oregonian. June 30, 2012 . Retrieved July 2, 2012.Makeover, a collection of classic dance remixes made from 1992 to 2000, was released on May 28, 2021. [29] 2021 also saw a number of lang's earlier recordings reissued on vinyl. k.d. lang Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 2, 2018 . Retrieved August 2, 2018. Tears of Love’s Recall” is, at least technically, the album’s least interesting song—lang’s usual pin-drop vocal delivery is flattened to a series of unengaging sustained notes, and its cinematic air feels rote compared to the creativity elsewhere. And the lyrics are oblique, even tortured, like bad Shakespeare: “Love, thing of might and dread, stays the savior and poison to all of heart and head,” she sings over a pattering dirge. But what feels like emotion held at arm’s length spoke specifically to the elusive experience of queerness at the time. Reflecting on Ingénue for its 25th anniversary, lang remarked that its sometimes obtuse nature felt like a form of protection: “It was our own prison that we were trying to break out of, but it was also our comfort zone.” While individual country stars such as Minnie Pearl and Loretta Lynn sang her praises, k.d. Lang was never fully accepted by the country music establishment. As she once explained to People magazine, "I was there in Nashville, a lesbian, a vegetarian, a Canadian, and trying to get in with this white, male, Christian society. They were like, 'What the hell are you doing here, girl?'" Gifted Vocalist: "Constant Craving"

The album finished with the hit Constant Craving, a song that still sounds vital and expansive. Before Ingénue, lang had already released A Truly Western Experience, Angel with a Lariat, Absolute Torch and Twang, and Shadowland, which was produced by the behemoth of the Nashville sound, Owen Bradley. But Ingénue catapulted her into a stratosphere of fame that few ever reach. David Bowie said that lang was "fast emerging as the classiest, most stylish performer of the '90s." Lang found herself facing intense burnout following the success of Ingénue and her coming out. She told the Daily Telegraph about it in a 2004 interview. In 2019, lang said in an interview that she considers herself semi-retired and may not be writing and recording new songs in the future. "I'm not feeling any particular urge to make music right now. The muse is eluding me. I am completely at peace with the fact that I may be done." [32] Activism [ edit ] Lang performing at Hamer Hall in Melbourne, Australia, in 2008On November 11, 2009, she entered into a domestic partnership with Jamie Price whom she had met in 2003. After separating on September 6, 2011, lang filed for a dissolution of the partnership in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, on December 30, 2011. [42] Filmography [ edit ] Film Woods, Mel (June 8, 2021). "To mark 'Makeover,' 5 iconic moments from k.d. lang's career". Xtra Magazine . Retrieved August 6, 2022. If lang (who recently started using she/they pronouns on social media) ... Lang: When I talk about unfulfilled desire, it's not just human physical love. It's the love I feel for animals; it's the love I feel for trees. You know, the video is loosely based on Waiting for Godot.