Grammy winner k.d. lang will make Broadway debut in After Midnight". Playbill. September 13, 2013. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014 . Retrieved January 29, 2014.

ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1996 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved November 28, 2021. Film and television appearances [ edit ] k.d. lang performing Leonard Cohen's " Hallelujah" at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe beautiful album opener, "Save Me," proved to be lang's transition out of her country past and into her crooner future, exemplifying the sonic spectrum of Ingénue. In Q magazine in 1993, Chrissie Hynde called lang a "secret weapon; she's a freedom fighter for the oppressed, and animals are on the bottom rung. If she can get into the mainstream, then she's getting the message through and having a great, positive influence." In the interview — which is archived here — lang reaffirms that Ingénue is, at least in part, about her love affair with a married person. The inspiration behind "Constant Craving" was all forms of love, not just desire for another human.

Starr, Victoria (1995). k.d. lang: All You Get is Me. Random House of Canada. p.2. ISBN 978-0-394-22442-8. She has supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research. Her cover of Cole Porter's " So in Love" (from the Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate), appears on the Red Hot + Blue 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. It feels like I've dedicated a lot of my life to the business and to the craft of songwriting and performing," lang says. Promotion, touring, clothing, being away from my family…" she laughs. "The need to feel important in the music world – it's all of it."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. Her voice is a full moon. The kind of moon that seems to swallow skies whole, whose luminescence doesn't so much erase the darkness, but rather absorbs the shadows with its silver glow, lighting up the night so that we may see ourselves — our hearts — more clearly. k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang's North American Tour Dates!". KD Lang . Retrieved December 16, 2015. David Bowie said that lang was "fast emerging as the classiest, most stylish performer of the '90s." Lang's first complete greatest-hits collection was released on February 2, 2010, on the Nonesuch label as Recollection.

There were] bomb threats at the record company and so forth. That was the hard part. So coming out was a piece of cake, actually. Best Known For: Singer and songwriter k.d. Lang is known for such country hits as "Crying" and "I'm Down to My Last Cigarette," and for the successful pop single "Constant Craving." Singing at country and western venues in Canada, lang began to establish an appearance and style referred to as "cowboy punk". [13] She was called a "Canadian Cowpunk" in the June 20, 1985, issue of Rolling Stone. [14] 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." [13] Career [ edit ] Miss Chatelaine" was released as the second single from the album. The song's video depicted Lang—who was usually best known for a fairly androgynous appearance—in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colours and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on The Lawrence Welk Show, [ citation needed] complete with an accordion in the instrumentation.Yes, I am because I think if you rely on a muse in the first place, you have to trust when they're not there. I mean, I think that's where faith lies, right? When it's empty and when it's not the way you want it to be necessarily? That's faith.… I think, you know, you got to remember that the other part of music is silence.