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Kathryn Dawn Lang (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and
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singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Lang has won
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and
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for her musical performances. Hits include the songs " Constant Craving" and "
Miss Chatelaine "Miss Chatelaine" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang, released as the second single from her second solo album, ''Ingénue'' (1992). The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, o ...
". A
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, lang has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has collaborated with musicians such as
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,
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,
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. She performed at the closing ceremony of the
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in
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, and at the opening ceremony of the
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, where she performed
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's "
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". Lang has also been active as an
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Early years

Lang was born in
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, the youngest child of Audrey Bebee and Adam Frederick Lang. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German,
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ancestry. When lang was nine months old, her family moved to
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, where she grew up with two older sisters and one older brother on the
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.Malawey, Victoria (2009) "K. D. Lang" ''in'' Cramer, Alfred W. (ed.) (2009) ''Musicians and Composers of the 20th century'' Salem Press, Pasadena, California. Her father, a drugstore owner, left the family when she was twelve. After secondary school, lang attended
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, where she became fascinated with the life and music of
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and decided to pursue a career as a professional singer. She moved to Edmonton after her graduation in 1982 and formed a Patsy Cline
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called the Reclines in 1983. She and the Reclines recorded their debut single, "Friday Dance Promenade", at Sundown Recorders. Label owner Larry Wanagas became her personal manager. The first band featured Stu Macdougal on keys, Dave Bjarnson on drums, Gary Koligar on guitar and bassist Farley Scott. The Reclines regularly played Edmonton's popular Sidetrack Cafe, a local venue that featured live bands six nights a week. In 1983, lang presented a performance-art piece, a seven-hour re-enactment of the transplantation of an
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for Barney Clark, a retired American dentist. ''
A Truly Western Experience ''A Truly Western Experience'' is the debut album by k.d. lang and the Reclines, released in 1984. The album was re-released in February 2010, with bonus tracks and a DVD with rare videos. Track listing #"Bopalena" (Webb Pierce, Mel Tillis)&nb ...
'' was released in 1984 and received strong reviews and led to national attention in Canada. In August 1984, lang was one of three Canadian artists to be selected to perform at the World Science Fair in
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, Japan (along with other performing and recording contracts throughout Japan). Singing at
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venues in Canada, lang began to establish an appearance and style referred to as "cowboy punk". She was called a "Canadian
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" in the June 20, 1985, issue of ''Rolling Stone''. She would later recall the inspiration for her defining look in an interview with The Canadian Press: "I used to sew plastic cowboys and Indians on my clothes – just having fun with it on a budget. I was broke at the time, so I'd find things at Value Village or get my mom to make me a skirt from the curtains she was about to throw out. I loved playing with the clothes as much as the music." Lang made several recordings that received very positive reviews and earned a 1985
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for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She accepted the award wearing a wedding dress borrowed from her male roommate at the time. She also made numerous tongue-in-cheek promises about what she would and would not do in the future, thus fulfilling the title of 'Most Promising'. She has won a total of eight Juno Awards. In 1986, lang signed a contract with an American record producer in
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, and received critical acclaim for her 1987 album, ''
Angel with a Lariat ''Angel with a Lariat'' is the second album by k.d. lang and the Reclines, released in 1987. This was the first release outside of Canada. Track listing #"Turn Me Round" (Ben Mink) – 3:13 #"High Time for a Detour" (lang, Mink) – 4:09 #"Diet ...
'', which was produced by
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.


Career rise

Lang first earned international recognition in 1988 when she performed as "The Alberta Rose" at the closing ceremonies of the
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. Canadian women's magazine ''
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'' selected lang as its "Woman of the Year" in 1988. Lang's career received a huge boost when
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chose her to record a duet of his standard, "Crying", a collaboration that won them the
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in 1989. The song was used in the
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film ''
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'' released in 1987. Due to the success of the song, lang received the Entertainer of the Year award from the
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. Lang would win the same award for the next three years, in addition to two Female Vocalist of the Year awards in 1988 and 1989. 1988 marked the release of '' Shadowland'', an album of torch country produced by
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. In late 1988, ''Shadowland'' was named Album of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association. That year she also performed "Turn Me Round" at the closing ceremonies of the XV Winter Olympics in
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, and sang background vocals with
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and
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for Orbison's acclaimed television special, '' Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night''. In 1990, lang contributed the song "
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" to the
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tribute album ''
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'' produced by the
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. In 1998, she contributed "Fado Hilário" to the AIDS benefit compilation album '' Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon'' produced by the same organization.


Grammy Awards and mainstream success

Lang won the
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for her 1989 album ''
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''. The single " Full Moon Full of Love" that stemmed from that album became a modest hit in the United States in the middle of 1989 and a Number 1 hit on the RPM Country chart in Canada. In 1989, she sang a duet, "Sin City", with
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on his album ''Just Lookin' for a Hit''. The 1992 album ''
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'', a set of adult-oriented pop songs that showed comparatively little country influence, contained her most popular song, " Constant Craving". That song brought her multi-million sales and much critical acclaim. Coming out as
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the same year saw several US country stations banning her music, and she faced a picket line outside the
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ceremony where she would receive the
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. Another top ten single from the record was "Miss Chatelaine". The
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-inspired track was ironic; ''
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'', a women's magazine, once chose lang as its "Woman of the Year", and the song's video depicted lang in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colours and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on ''
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''. She received a writing credit for
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1997 song, "
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", whose chorus sounds similar to "Constant Craving". Jagger and Richards claimed to have never heard the song before and when they discovered the similarity prior to the song's release, were flummoxed as to how the songs could be so similar. Jagger discovered his daughter listening to a recording of "Constant Craving" on her stereo and realized he had heard the song before many times but only subliminally. The two gave lang credit, along with her co-writer
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, to avoid any possible lawsuits. Afterwards, lang said she was "completely honoured and flattered" to receive the songwriting credit. She contributed much of the music towards
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's soundtrack of the film '' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'', and also did a cover of "
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" for the 1997 film adaptation of ''
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''. She performed "Surrender" for the closing titles of the
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film ''
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''. In 1996, she was made an Officer of the
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. In 1997, '' Drag'', an album of cover tunes dedicated to 'smoke' (specifically cigarette smoking), was released. The album cover and booklet photographs show lang in a man's suit, referring to
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as another possible meaning of the word 'drag'. The songs on ''Drag'' include "Smoke Dreams", from the '40s,
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's "
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", "Smoke Rings", the theme from the
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'' Valley of the Dolls'', and eight other smoke-themed songs. In 1998, she was inducted into The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives' National Portrait Collection. In 1999, lang ranked No. 33 on ''
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's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll'', and she ranked No. 26 on '' CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music'' in 2002, one of eight women to make both lists. In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy Award, for
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for her collaboration with
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on '' A Wonderful World''. In 2004,
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of ''The New York Times'' wrote: "Few singers command such perfection of pitch. Her voice, at once beautiful and unadorned and softened with a veil of smoke, invariably hits the middle of a note and remains there. She discreetly flaunted her technique, drawing out notes and shading them from sustained cries into softer, vibrato-laden murmurs. She balanced her commitment to the material with humor, projecting a twinkling merriment behind it all." In the same year, lang released ''
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'', which featured cover versions of songs by iconic English-speaking Canadian singer-songwriters:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. According to the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA), in April 2006, the album went platinum in Canada selling over 100,000 copies. In December 2007, the album reached double platinum status in Australia selling over 140,000 copies. Also in 2004, she sang the song "Little Patch of Heaven" for the
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film ''
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''. On July 29, 2006, lang performed her hit "Constant Craving" at the opening ceremonies of the Outgames held in
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,
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, Canada. In 2006, she paired with singer
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on a cover of the
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song, "
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", for Peyroux's album, ''
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''. That same year lang was featured in
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's second album, ''
Pretty Little Head ''Pretty Little Head'' is the second album by singer Nellie McKay. It was released October 31, 2006, on Nellie's own Hungry Mouse label. It features duets with Cyndi Lauper ("Beecharmer") and k.d. lang ("We Had It Right"). Other songs include "C ...
'', singing with McKay in "We Had it Right". As well, lang sang a version of
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" for the ''Happy Feet'' film soundtrack. She also sang a duet with
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on the
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singer's solo album '' Hope & Glory'' covering the Lucinda Williams song "Jackson". In 2007, she teamed up with one of her childhood idols,
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, on a remake of Anne's hit, "A Love Song (Loggins and Messina song), A Love Song", that was featured on Anne's album ''Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends''. On February 5, 2008, she released an album of new material entitled ''Watershed (k.d. lang album), Watershed''. It was her first collection of original material since the release of her 2000 album ''Invincible Summer''. An article in which lang is interviewed states that "when she isn't working, [lang] is mostly a homebody, living quietly with a girlfriend she refers to as 'my wife' — they are not legally married — and her two dogs." On 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. Lang's first complete greatest-hits collection was released on February 2, 2010, on the Nonesuch label as ''Recollection (k.d. lang album), Recollection''. In 2010, she was in Nashville, working on a new album, titled ''Sing It Loud (album), Sing it Loud''. The Nonesuch album was released by lang and the Siss Boom Bang in a spring 2011 release. The band toured North America in summer 2011. In 2012, she moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. On April 21, 2013, during the Juno Awards of 2013, 2013 Juno Awards, lang was formally inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. She is notable for praising Canadians and "letting your freak flags fly" during her acceptance speech. Also in 2013, the Alberta Ballet, Alberta Ballet Company staged ''Balletlujah!'' set to the songs of lang's music and inspired by lang. The ballet was later made into a film broadcast on CBC. In 2016, lang collaborated with Neko Case and Laura Veirs on the album project ''case/lang/veirs''. She participated in the Leonard Cohen memorial celebration "Tower Of Song" in Quebec in November 2017, performing "
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". In 2019, lang said in an interview that she considers herself semi-retired and may not be writing and recording new songs going forward. "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." She is featured in the song "Lightning Fields" by
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from their 2020 album ''Imploding the Mirage''. In the song, her verse begins with the line: "Don't beat yourself up, you laid good ground" and continues for several more lines. ''Makeover'', a collection of classic dance remixes made from 1992 to 2000, was released on May 28, 2021. 2021 also saw a number of lang's earlier recordings reissued on vinyl.


Film and television appearances

Lang performed several times on ''List of Super Dave Osborne Show episodes, The Super Dave Osborne Show'' starting in 1987. In 1988 k.d. lang and The Reclines appeared on ''Austin City Limits''. Lang played the lead in the 1991 drama film ''Salmonberries (film), Salmonberries'', and also co-starred with Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd in ''Eye of the Beholder (film), Eye of the Beholder'' (1999). She appeared as Dita Tommey in the 1997 miniseries, ''The Last Don''. She had an uncredited role as a lounge singer, performing the song "Love for Sale (song), Love for Sale", in 2006's ''The Black Dahlia (film), The Black Dahlia''. She has also made guest appearances on the sitcoms ''The Larry Sanders Show'', ''Dharma & Greg'', and the famous The Puppy Episode, coming out episode of ''Ellen (TV series), Ellen''. She appeared on the Christmas special of ''Pee Wee's Playhouse'', where she performed the song "Jingle Bell Rock". She also made a guest appearance on the "Garbage" episode of ''The Jim Henson Hour'', and in 2008 appeared on Rove McManus' live hour show ''Rove''. Lang performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra for an intimate crowd at 18th-century church LSO St Luke's in London on February 3, 2008. First aired as part of the BBC Four Sessions, the concert was released as a DVD entitled ''Live in London'' in 2009. On February 12, 2010, she performed
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's "
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" at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Olympics Opening Ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early May 2010, lang filled in at the last minute for Susan Boyle at the Australian TV Logie Awards to reprise her Winter Olympics performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", receiving an extended standing ovation. In 2010, she sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" with Matthew Morrison in a Christmas episode of ''Glee (TV series), Glee'', and is featured on ''Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album''. In February 2013, she appeared in How I Met Your Mother (season 8), Season 8 of the CBS sitcom, ''How I Met Your Mother'', as herself. In 2014, she appeared in the Season 4 finale of ''Portlandia (TV series), Portlandia'' as an exaggerated version of herself. Lang made her Broadway debut as the "Special Guest Star" in Broadway's ''After Midnight'', replacing Fantasia Barrino and to be succeeded by Toni Braxton and Babyface (musician), Babyface. She appeared from February 11 to March 9, 2014. On February 16, 2020, she was one of many musicians who donated their time to perform at Fire Fight Australia at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia. This was a massive event organised in order to raise proceeds to those affected by the unprecedented bushfires in numerous states of the country, which had commenced in late Spring of 2019. One of her performances included the sterling rendition of
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's classic song, "Hallelujah".


Activism

Lang, who Coming out, came out as a
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in a June 1992 article of the LGBT news magazine ''The Advocate (LGBT magazine), The Advocate'', has championed gay rights causes. She has supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research. Her cover of
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" (from the Broadway musical, ''Kiss Me, Kate''), appears on the ''
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'' compilation album and video from 1990 (a tribute to Cole Porter to benefit AIDS research and relief). Her 2010 greatest hits album, ''Recollection'', also includes this cover of "So in Love." Lang also recorded the song "Fado Hilário", singing in Portuguese, for the 1999 Red Hot AIDS benefit album '' Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon'', a traditional fado from Portugal. She is a vegetarian. Her "Meat Stinks" campaign in the 1990s created much controversy, particularly in her hometown, in the middle of
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's cattle ranching industry—she was banned from more than 30 Alberta radio stations. A sign in Consort, Alberta, stating "Home of k.d. lang" was burned to the ground. Alberta's agriculture minister at the time said it was "extremely unfortunate that she has decided to side with the animal rightists. There's a certain feeling of betrayal – we have supported k.d. fairly well in Alberta". More than a dozen radio stations in the U.S. throughout Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Montana and Nebraska also boycotted playing her records due to her "Meat Stinks" campaign. Lang appeared on the cover of the August 1993 issue of ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'' photographed by Herb Ritts. The cover featured lang in a barber chair while model Cindy Crawford appeared to shave her face with a straight razor, which lang would later say was inspired by the French film ''The Hairdresser's Husband, Le mari de la coiffeuse''. The issue contained a detailed article about lang which observed that she had thought that she would be ostracized by the country music industry when she came out as a lesbian. However, Nashville was accepting, and her records continued to sell. When she appeared in an ad for PETA, Nashville was less impressed, owing to the relationship between country music and cattle ranching. In April 2008, lang spent time in Melbourne, Australia, as a guest editorialist for ''The Age''. This was in connection with her support for the
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human rights, human rights issues. On April 24, 2008, she joined pro-Tibet protesters in Canberra as the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay made its way through the Australian capital. In 2011, lang was inducted to Q Hall of Fame Canada in recognition of the work she has done to further equality for all peoples around the world. Lang reflected on coming out in a 2016 interview with The Canadian Press, saying it "felt like it was the most responsible thing for society and myself" at the time. She also noted that dealing with the fallout was something she struggled with in the years that followed. "It's a very hard thing to unravel for me and decipher," she said. "In a way you can't. It's all just a big ball of wax of who I am and what my role in popular culture was – and what pop culture's role was in me." Lang is a member of Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.


Filmography


Theatre


Recognition

In November 2005, lang received the National Arts Centre Award, a companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. On June 3, 2008, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2018 lang was appointed to the Alberta Order of Excellence.


A2IM Libera Awards

!Ref. , - , 2017 , ''case/lang/veirs (album), case/lang/veirs'' , Best Country/Americana/Folk Album , ,


ASCAP Pop Music Awards

!Ref. , - , 1994 , " Constant Craving" , Most Performed Song , ,


Academy of Country Music Awards

, - , 1987 , rowspan="2" , Herself , Top New Female Vocalist , , - , 1989 , Top Female Vocalist ,


Alibu Music Awards

!Ref. , - , 2016 , ''case/lang/veirs (album), case/lang/veirs'' , International Folk Album of the Year , ,


Americana Music Honors & Awards

, - , 2018 , Herself , Trailblazer Award ,


''Billboard'' Music Awards

, - , 1992 , " Constant Craving" , Best Pop/Rock Female Video ,


Brit Awards

, - , 1995 , rowspan="2" , Herself , rowspan="2" , Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist, International Female Solo Artist , , - , 1996 ,


GLAAD Media Awards

, - , 2001 , ''Invincible Summer'' , rowspan=2, GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist, Outstanding Music Album , , - , 2003 , '' A Wonderful World'' , , - , 2009 , ''Watershed (k.d. lang album), Watershed'' , GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist, Outstanding Music Artist ,


Grammy Awards

, - , 1989 , "Crying (Roy Orbison song), Crying" (shared with Roy Orbison) , Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, Best Country Vocal Collaboration , , - , 1990 , "
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" , Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, Best Female Country Vocal Performance , , - , rowspan="4" , 1993 , ''
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'' , Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year , , - , rowspan="3" , " Constant Craving" , Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year , , - , Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year , , - , rowspan="2" , Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance , , - , 1994 , "
Miss Chatelaine "Miss Chatelaine" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang, released as the second single from her second solo album, ''Ingénue'' (1992). The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, o ...
" , , - , 1995 , "Moonglow (song), Moonglow" (with
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) , Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals , , - , 2003 , "What A Wonderful World" (with
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) , rowspan="2" , Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals , , - , rowspan="2" , 2004 , "La Vie En Rose" (with
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) , , - , ''A Wonderful World (Tony Bennett and k.d. lang album), A Wonderful World'' (shared with
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) ,
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,


Helpmann Awards

, - , 4th Helpmann Awards, 2004 , ''The Wonderful World Tour'' (with
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) , Best Contemporary Concert Presentation Theatre , , - , 5th Helpmann Awards, 2005 , Concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony , Best International Contemporary Music Concert ,


Juno Awards

, - , 1985 , rowspan="11" , Herself , Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year , , - , rowspan="2" , 1987 , Country Female Vocalist of the Year , , - , rowspan="2" , Female Vocalist of the Year , , - , rowspan="3" , 1989 , , - , Canadian Entertainer of the Year , , - , rowspan="2" , Country Female Vocalist of the Year , , - , rowspan="2" , 1990 , , - , Canadian Entertainer of the Year , , - , rowspan="4" , 1993 , Best Female Vocalist , , - , Songwriter of the Year , , - , Best Producer , , - , ''
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'' , Best Album , , - , rowspan="2" , 1994 , rowspan="4" , Herself , Best Producer , , - , rowspan="2" , Best Recording Engineer , , - , 1995 , , - , 2005 , Artist of the Year ,


Polaris Music Prize

!Ref , - , 2017 Polaris Music Prize, 2017 , rowspan=3, ''
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'' , rowspan=3, Heritage Award , , , - , 2018 Polaris Music Prize, 2018 , , , - , 2019 Polaris Music Prize, 2019 , ,


Pollstar Concert Industry Awards

, - , rowspan=2, 1990 , rowspan=2, Tour , Club Tour of the Year , , - , Best Debut Tour , , - , 1993 , Tour , Small Hall Tour of the Year , , - , 2002 , Tour (w/
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) , Major Tour of the Year ,


Rober Awards Music Prize

!Ref. , - , 2016 , case/lang/veirs , Best Songwriter , ,


Discography


Studio albums

* '' Shadowland'' (1988) * ''
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'' (1992) * ''All You Can Eat (k.d. lang album), All You Can Eat'' (1995) * '' Drag'' (1997) * ''Invincible Summer'' (2000) * ''
Hymns of the 49th Parallel ''Hymns of the 49th Parallel'' is the ninth studio album by the Canadian singer and songwriter k.d. lang, released in 2004. It is an album of songs by lang's favourite Canadian songwriters, and also includes a new version of her original composit ...
'' (2004) * ''Watershed (k.d. lang album), Watershed'' (2008)


Collaboration albums

*''
A Truly Western Experience ''A Truly Western Experience'' is the debut album by k.d. lang and the Reclines, released in 1984. The album was re-released in February 2010, with bonus tracks and a DVD with rare videos. Track listing #"Bopalena" (Webb Pierce, Mel Tillis)&nb ...
'' with The Reclines (1984) *''
Angel with a Lariat ''Angel with a Lariat'' is the second album by k.d. lang and the Reclines, released in 1987. This was the first release outside of Canada. Track listing #"Turn Me Round" (Ben Mink) – 3:13 #"High Time for a Detour" (lang, Mink) – 4:09 #"Diet ...
'' with The Reclines (1987) *''
Absolute Torch and Twang ''Absolute Torch and Twang'' is the third album by k.d. lang and the Reclines, released in 1989. Critical reception Fred Dellar of ''Hi-Fi News & Record Review'' gave the best rating to the album and said that "Canuck has fashioned yet another ...
'' with The Reclines (1989) *''A Wonderful World (Tony Bennett and k.d. lang album), A Wonderful World'' with Tony Bennett (2002) *''Sing It Loud (album), Sing It Loud'' with The Siss Boom Bang (2011) *''Case/lang/veirs (album), case/lang/veirs'' with case/lang/veirs (2016)


Soundtrack albums

*''Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)#Soundtrack, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'' (1993)


See also

*Academy of Country Music *Country Music Association *List of animal rights advocates *List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart *List of country musicians *List of number-one dance hits (United States)


Notes


References


External links

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Shambhala Sun Magazine Interview (2008)

k.d. lang questionnaire
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