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K.D. Lang
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Singer K.D. Lang, whose real name is
Kathryn Dawn Lang, was born on November 2, 1961 in Consort (Alberta, Canada).
Already from the school she showed interest in the music, especially in that of Patsy
Cline - one of the most famous singers country music. With help of the guitarist
Ben Mink she formed a band called The Reclines and recorded the first titled
album Friday Dance Promenade that received good criticism. To beginning of the
eighties she started singing with the group The Reclines. She did several mock-ups
that received good criticism and in 1985 she obtained the Juno Award Canadian to
the most promising feminine vocalist. She moved from Canada to New York and there
she recorded her first album, To Truly Western Experience, in 1984. In 1986
she
signed a contract with the American producer Dave Edmunds and she was
acclaimed by the criticism by her album Angel with to Lariat of 1987. Her career
received an enormous impulse when the legend of the rock Roy Orbison invited her
to record a short duet called Crying for the movie Hiding Out. Later
she sang
with Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt in a program of television. Her music was
a miscellany of country music and pop-rock. She gained the award
Grammy to the best singer of country music in 1988 and 1989, and to the best singer pop in 1992.
Her biggest success of sales and criticism came with the song Constant Craving, of
her album Ingenue (1992). It was a platinum disc in America, Great Britain
and Australia, and double platinum in Canada. K.D. contributed in the
sound-track of the movie Even Cowgirls Get the Blues in 1993, and she has
directed the
movie Salmonberries. In addition to her musical talent, K.D. Lang has always
been defined like homosexual and has led the lesbian causes. She declared openly
her lesbianism in an interview in The Advocate. Her look is usually almost
always an androgyne. She is vegetarian and she fights for the rights of the
animals in campaigns as "The meat stinks" that have created big controversy,
especially in her hometown that is an important center of the industry of the
cattle. In 1996 they granted to her the
Official of the Order of Canada title.
DISCOGRAPHY OF KD LANG
- Friday Dance Promenade (1983)
- A Truly Western Experience (1984)
- Angel with a Lariat (1987)
- Shadowland (1992)
- Absolute Torch and Twang (1989)
- Ingenue (1992)
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) [banda sonora]
- All You Can Eat (1995)
- Drag (1997)
- Invincible Summer (2000)
- Live by Request (2001)
- Hymns of the 49th Parallel (2004)
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