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After releasing A Truly Western Experience on an indie Edmonton label and generating serious major-label interest in the U.S., lang joined Sire/Warner Bros. at the behest of VP Seymour Stein for her 1987 American debut, Angel with a Lariat, produced by Dave Edmunds and cut with her then-band the Reclines.

Her follow-up album in 1988, Shadowland. brought lang right to the heart of Nashville for a collaboration with legendary producer Owen Bradley, mentor to lang’s idol, Patsy Cline, and Brenda Lee. In fact, Lee, Loretta Lynn, and Kitty Wells make guest vocal appearances on the album’s “Honky Tonk Angels’ Medley.”

But lang wasn’t looking to be pigeonholed. Her 1989 Grammy Award-winning Absolute Torch and Twang combined her love of country with increasingly sophisticated, emotive torch singing. With the 1992 platinum-selling Ingenue, she had fashioned a sound – if not a genre – all her own: an elegant and impassioned adult contemporary approach. That yielded her biggest hit, “Constant Craving,” and yet another Grammy. On subsequent releases, lang continued to both fine-t

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"Be confident in yourself. Confidence is the best gift and it's the best advice that anyone has ever given me. My parents gave me confidence. My teacher told me to just be confident. Have confidence in yourself—it’s everything."

k.d. lang is one of Canada’s most versatile and gifted singer-songwriters and performers. As noteworthy as her multiple Juno and Grammy awards is her contribution to the LGBTQ community. k.d. publicly came out in the early 1990s, at the peak of her fame, helping to shed light on the issue of gay rights.

Kathryn Dawn Lang was born in Edmonton in 1961. She spent her childhood in the village of Consort, 220 kilometres east of Red Deer. Adulthood, however, took her as far away from home as one can imagine: travelling around the world as one of North America’s foremost performing artists.

While the path from Consort to Hollywood is the definition of “unbeaten,” it’s clear that k.d.’s rural upbringing was an integral element in shaping the singer who has been wowing audiences for the last 30 years. Through her contributions both on and

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Who Is k.d. Lang?

Singer k.d. Lang was born in Canada and grew up in the town of Consort. Lang started singing as a child and began her musical career after attending Red Deer College. She released her debut album in Canada in the early 1980s. In 1986, Lang tried to break into the American country music scene with Angel with a Lariat. The following year, she had her first country hit, a duet with Roy Orbison. Switching to a more traditional pop vocal style, Lang had her biggest pop hit in 1992 with "Constant Craving." Since then, she has recorded numerous albums, including her 2002 collaboration with Tony Bennett, A Wonderful World. Lang was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2013.

Early Life

Born Kathryn Dawn Lang on November 2, 1961, in Alberta, Canada, country singer k.d. Lang grew up the youngest of four children in the small town of Consort, Alberta. As she once told The New York Times, the place was so small that "you knew everyone from the day you were born till the day you could get yourself out there."