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cheka.
31st March 2018, 08:12 PM
for you youngsters....and burnouts ()\

this thing was mega god queen of gay.pushed propaganda 30 years ago. sent in to attack from the country music side -- the onto a laundry list of crap --- like the modern character called 'elen'. note in bold that it was only 22 years old when it broke into the big time - with zero credibility. prior to that it had been just another nobody. from there....off to the races with 24/7 coverage of the gay country singer turned this or that...

amazing how many talents the (((gay))) had -- singer, actor, periodical editor, activist, comedian, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.d._lang

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Kdlang22_%28cropped1%29.jpg/800px-Kdlang22_%28cropped1%29.jpg

Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

Lang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Audrey Bebee and Adam Frederick Lang.[4] She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian-Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry.[5] When Lang was nine months old, her family moved to Consort, Alberta, where she grew up with two sisters and one brother on the Canadian prairie.[6] Her father, a drugstore owner, left the family when she was twelve.

Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances; hits include "Constant Craving" and "Miss Chatelaine". She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has collaborated with musicians such as Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Anne Murray, Ann Wilson, and Jane Siberry

Lang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Audrey Bebee and Adam Frederick Lang.[4] She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian-Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry.[5] When Lang was nine months old, her family moved to Consort, Alberta, where she grew up with two sisters and one brother on the Canadian prairie.[6] Her father, a drugstore owner, left the family when she was twelve

In August 1984, Lang was one of three Canadian artists to be selected to perform at the World Science Fair in Tsukuba, Japan (along with other performing and recording contracts throughout Japan)

Lang made several recordings that received very positive reviews and earned a 1985 Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She accepted the award wearing a wedding dress borrowed from her male roommate at the time.[11] 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 Nashville, Tennessee, and received critical acclaim for her 1987 album, Angel with a Lariat, which was produced by Dave Edmunds.

Career rise

Lang first earned international recognition in 1988 when she performed as "The Alberta Rose" at the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.[12] Canadian women's magazine Chatelaine selected Lang as its "Woman of the Year" in 1988.[13]

Lang's career received a huge boost when Roy Orbison chose her to record a duet of his standard, "Crying", a collaboration that won them the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1989. The song was used in the Jon Cryer film Hiding Out released in 1987. Due to the success of the song, Lang received the Entertainer of the Year award from the Canadian Country Music Association. 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 Owen Bradley. 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 Calgary, Alberta, and sang background vocals with Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt for Orbison's acclaimed television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.

In 1990, Lang contributed the song "So in Love" to the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization. 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 American Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 1989 album, Absolute Torch and Twang. 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 Dwight Yoakam on his album Just Lookin' for a Hit.

The 1992 album, Ingénue, 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, much critical acclaim, and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Another top ten single from the record was "Miss Chatelaine". The salsa-inspired track was ironic; Chatelaine, 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 colors and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on the Lawrence Welk show.

She received a writing credit for the Rolling Stones 1997 song, "Anybody Seen My Baby?", whose chorus sounds strikingly 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 then soon 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 Ben Mink, 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 Gus Van Sant's soundtrack of the film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and also did a cover of "Skylark" for the 1997 film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. She performed "Surrender" for the closing titles of the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, having previously worked with Bond composer David Arnold on his album, Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project.

In 1996, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Lang performed several times on 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, and also co-starred with Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd in Eye of the Beholder (1999). She had an uncredited role as a lounge singer in 2006's The Black Dahlia. She has also made guest appearances on the sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show, Dharma & Greg, and the famous coming out episode of 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, who came out as a lesbian in a June 1992 article of the LGBT news magazine The Advocate,[26] has championed gay rights causes.

Lang appeared on the cover of the August 1993 issue of 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 Le mari de la coiffeuse.

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 Tibet human rights issues.

In November 2005, Lang received the National Arts Centre Award, a companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.[33] On June 3, 2008, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame

latemetal1
1st April 2018, 07:59 AM
Interesting niche singer from a long time ago, why does she matter to anyone?

osoab
1st April 2018, 08:31 AM
Interesting niche singer from a long time ago, why does she matter to anyone?

I say she wasn't as big of an influence as implied. She was just another tool/lackey that was propped up. I bet she gave it up to gather a little fame. I wouldn't put her at country either. She might have started country, but they had to cross her into lite rock/pop to keep some traction. Radio play wasn't there. Garth Brooks had that time frame tied up. Indigo Girls were a much larger gay influence at that time. Both, though, were just small parts of a full frontal introduction. This movie http://Philadelphia (1993) - IMDb had more influence by orders of magnitudes than either Lang or the Indigo Girls.

Down1
1st April 2018, 09:52 AM
Constant Craving was OK, but otherwise she sucked and was way outshined by her fellow Canadian Shania.

Didn't know she was ((())).

cheka.
1st April 2018, 12:10 PM
I say she wasn't as big of an influence as implied. She was just another tool/lackey that was propped up. I bet she gave it up to gather a little fame. I wouldn't put her at country either. She might have started country, but they had to cross her into lite rock/pop to keep some traction. Radio play wasn't there. Garth Brooks had that time frame tied up. Indigo Girls were a much larger gay influence at that time. Both, though, were just small parts of a full frontal introduction. This movie http://Philadelphia (1993) - IMDb had more influence by orders of magnitudes than either Lang or the Indigo Girls.

nominated for FIFTEEN grammys from the (((megaphone))). they pushed the thing hard...otherwise i wouldnt even know what it is. by comparison, your reference of indigo girls -- i have no clue what that is.

it then went onto all of those other non-music (((assignments))) by the megaphone

i guess we had different experiences back then. grammy info:

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/kd-lang


46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)
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Wins
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
A Wonderful World
Nominations
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
La Vie En Rose
45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)
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Nominations
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
What A Wonderful World
37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)
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Nominations
Best Pop Vocal Collaboration
Moonglow (Track)
36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)
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Nominations
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
Miss Chatelaine (Single)
35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)
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Wins
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
Constant Craving
Nominations
Record Of The Year
Constant Craving (Single)
Album Of The Year
Ingenue (Album)
Song Of The Year
Constant Craving (Single)
32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)
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Wins
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
Absolute Torch And Twang
Nominations
Best Country Vocal Collaboration
Sin City (Track)
Best Country Song
Luck In My Eyes (Single)
31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)
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Wins
Best Country Vocal Collaboration
Crying
Nominations
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
I'm Down To My Last Cigarette (Single)
Best Country Vocal Collaboration
Honky Tonk Angels' Medley (Track)

Twisted Titan
1st April 2018, 02:09 PM
Meh.....a washed up butch sodomite that would give up all her fame and money

If she could stand up and shake a ding a ling after taking a piss.

latemetal1
1st April 2018, 02:29 PM
But what makes her worth talking about?...

cheka.
1st April 2018, 02:45 PM
But what makes her worth talking about?...

a bit of history for our younger members. the gay (((agenda))) has been playing on their megaphone for decades. this was one of their characters from the eighties and nineties. from the op, where the purpose and summary was posted:

for you youngsters....and burnouts

this thing was mega god queen of gay.pushed propaganda 30 years ago. sent in to attack from the country music side -- the onto a laundry list of crap --- like the modern character called 'elen'. note in bold that it was only 22 years old when it broke into the big time - with zero credibility. prior to that it had been just another nobody. from there....off to the races with 24/7 coverage of the gay country singer turned this or that...

amazing how many talents the (((gay))) had -- singer, actor, periodical editor, activist, comedian, etc

osoab
1st April 2018, 07:09 PM
nominated for FIFTEEN grammys from the (((megaphone))). they pushed the thing hard...otherwise i wouldnt even know what it is. by comparison, your reference of indigo girls -- i have no clue what that is.

it then went onto all of those other non-music (((assignments))) by the megaphone

i guess we had different experiences back then. grammy info:

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/kd-lang




The grammys is more of back slapping and using the spotlight to push the agenda. Just because some (((shit))) is nominated by other (((shits))) and gets to put a shiny trophy on their mantle doesn't mean it matters.

cheka.
1st April 2018, 07:49 PM
The grammys is more of back slapping and using the spotlight to push the agenda. Just because some (((shit))) is nominated by other (((shits))) and gets to put a shiny trophy on their mantle doesn't mean it matters.

shows the level of pumping. the topic of this thread