K.D. Lang

Kathryn Lang, best known by the stage name K.D. Lang, is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter.  Singing at country and western venues in Canada, she made several recordings that received good reviews and earned a 1985 Canadian Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She accepted the award wearing a wedding dress and made numerous tongue-in-cheek promises about what she would and would not do in the future, thus fulfilling the title of "Most Promising". lang has won eight Juno Awards.  In 1986, she 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.  K.D. lang won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 198 album, Absolute Torch and Twang. The single "Full Moon of Love" that stemmed from that album became a modest hit in the United States in the summer of 1989.  The album Ingénue (1992) contained her most popular song, "Constant Craving", which 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 is a Canadian women's magazine which once chose lang as its "Woman of the Year".  In 2006 Lang duetted with singer Madeleine Peyroux on a cover of the Joni Mitchell song "River" for Peyroux's album Half the Perfect World. That same year lang was featured in Nellie McKay's second album, Pretty Little Head, singing with McKay in "we had it right". In 2006 lang sang a version of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" for the Happy Feet film soundtrack.  See K.D. Lang LIVE!  Purchase K.D. Lang tickets today!