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KD Lang Biography
When k.d. lang released her first major-label album in 1987,
she caused considerable controversy within the traditional world of
country music. With her vaguely campy approach, androgynous appearance,
and edgy, rock-inflected music, very few observers knew what to make of
her or her music, although no one questioned her considerable vocal
talents. That confusion never quite dissipated over the course of her
career, even when she abandoned country music for torchy adult
contemporary pop in 1992 with her fourth album, Ingénue.
Born in Alberta, Canada, lang was first drawn toward music while she
was in college. In particular, she was attracted to the music of Patsy
Cline. She became acquainted with Cline's music while she was preparing
to star in a collegiate theatrical production based on the vocalist's
life. Soon, lang immersed herself within Cline's life and music and
decided that she would pursue a career as a professional singer. With
the help of guitarist/co-songwriter Ben Mink, she formed a band, named
the Reclines in tribute to Patsy Cline, in 1983, and they recorded a
debut album, Friday Dance Promenade, which received some positive
notices in independent papers. A follow-up album, A Truly Western
Experience, was released in 1984 and received even better reviews and
led to national attention. In 1985, lang was named the Most Promising
Female Vocalist by the Juno Awards.
All of the Canadian attention led to the interest of a number of
American record labels. Sire signed lang in early 1986, and she
recorded her first record for the label later that year. The result,
Angel with a Lariat, was produced by Dave Edmunds and appeared in the
fall of 1986. The mix of '50s-styled ballads, kitschy rockabilly, and
honky tonk numbers on Angel with a Lariat received good reviews,
especially from rock critics. The album had heavy support from college
radio as well as cutting-edge country stations. Though it was a
mainstream hit in Canada and an underground smash in the U.S.,
Nashville resisted lang, especially her tongue-in-cheek concert
appearances. As she was recording her second Nashville album in 1987,
lang performed a duet with Roy Orbison on his old hit Crying, which
was recorded for the film Hiding Out. The single was released at the
end of the year and was hit, marking her first appearance on the
country charts.
Shadowland, her second Sire album, made her debt to Patsy Cline
explicit. Recorded with Cline's producer, Owen Bradley, the album
lacked the campy humor of Angel with a Lariat, which helped it succeed
in traditional country circles -- I'm Down to My Last Cigarette, the
first single from the record, was her first to break the country Top
40. Shadowland became a sizable word-of-mouth hit, both in modern
country and alternative music circles, which led to it going gold. The
following year lang released the harder-edged Absolute Torch and Twang,
which increased her mainstream American country audience, in addition
to being a college radio and Canadian hit. lang won a Grammy -- Best
Country Vocal Performance, Female -- for the album in 1989, and Full
Moon of Love became a Top 25 hit in the summer of 1989. The attention
made lang a minor celebrity, which meant that when she launched a
protest against meat eating in 1990, it became a media sensation.
Before the release of her fourth album, lang declared that she was a
lesbian in an interview in The Advocate, which could have been a risky
proposition, since Nashville's industry was notorious for not accepting
people who fell outside of the margins of the mainstream. However, the
new album was not a country album. Ingénue was a set of adult
contemporary pop that owed very little to country. Its first single,
Constant Craving, became a Top 40 American hit and won the Grammy
Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, leading the album to
platinum status in America, Britain, and Australia; it went double
platinum in Canada.
Ingénue won lang a new audience, but she didn't immediately produce a
follow-up to the album. Instead, her next recorded work was the largely
instrumental soundtrack for Gus Van Zant's film adaptation of Tom
Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues in 1993; the soundtrack was
actually released several months before the film. It wasn't until 1995
that lang delivered All You Can Eat, her full-fledged follow-up to
Ingénue. All You Can Eat continued the pop direction of its
predecessor, showing no traces of country. The album didn't enjoy the
mass commercial acceptance of Ingénue, but it was a moderate success,
proving that she had a dedicated cult following. lang continued to
follow her pop-oriented instincts on 2000's Invincible Summer, while
embracing traditional popular standards on 1997's Drag (a collection of
songs about smoking) and in her duet with Tony Bennett on his 2001 set
Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues. (lang also went out
on the road with Bennett for a successful co-headlining concert tour.)
In 2004, after lang's contract with Sire Records ran its course, she
signed with the artist-friendly Nonesuch imprint and recorded Hymns of
the 49th Parallel, a collection of tunes by Canadian songwriters.
Reintarnation, a compilation of her Sire years, was released in 2006. ~
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine