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CBC
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame honours inductee k.d. lang
In a small ceremony on May 21, lang placed a plaque bearing her name on the wall of Studio Bell, home of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. lang was inducted into hall last year.
Calgary Herald
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
Alberta superstar k.d. lang honoured for her 2024 induction into Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame
It was the mid-1980s during the Calgary Stampede when legendary record executive Seymour Stein went to see k.d. lang and The Reclines at the Crystal Ballroom of the Palliser Fairmont Hotel. Article content Article content Stein, who was the golden-earred co-founder of Sire Records and credited with discovering Madonna and the Talking Heads, had travelled to Calgary to see lang play and potentially sign her to his renowned label. Article content Article content 'He did a lot of cocaine and so forth,' lang said Wednesday morning at a private ceremony honouring her induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame at the National Music Centre. 'He fell asleep during my show. It worked out fine.' Article content Article content Stein, who died in 2023, did sign lang to his label and helped shape the early years of her remarkable 40-plus-year career as an internationally renowned singer-songwriter. It was a suitably strange and Calgary-centric anecdote for lang to reveal on Wednesday as the Canadian Country Music Association and the National Music Centre paid tribute to the artist with a ceremony that found her placing her name on the wall alongside fellow 2024 inductee Gilles Godard, who is president of Anthem Music Publishing Nashville. lang has won 10 CCMA awards, eight Junos and four Grammys, received the Order of Canada and became an international star selling millions of albums — but her career in the conservative country music industry has also had a rebellious nature to it. She expanded the boundaries of country music with a post-modern take on the genre that included nods to traditional country-and-western sounds and sophisticated modern influences such as pop and jazz. lang, who was born in Edmonton and grew up in the small town of Consort, has also been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and an activist for animal rights during her career. Article content Article content On Wednesday, lang was surrounded by some memorabilia from her career that included the yellow tulle ballgown she wore in the video for her hit Miss Chatelaine from her 1992 breakthrough album Ingenue and a framed image of her famous 1993 magazine cover for Vanity Fair. Shot by renowned photographer Herb Ritts, it featured lang wearing a suit and tie and sitting in a barber chair having her face shaved by supermodel Cindy Crawford. It is considered an iconic image in queer culture. Article content 'I never felt like I belonged in the room, I still don't,' lang joked on Wednesday in a brief speech before putting her plaque on the wall. Article content 'I'm just so honoured to be here and to be amongst you and amongst the people on the wall and all the people in this building and all the youngsters that are making Canadian music and continuing to make Canadian music world-class and cutting edge,' she said. 'We are very, very blessed with our musical aptitude in Canada.'
CBC
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
K.d. lang auctioning off signed vinyls, magazines to celebrate Ingénue's anniversary
Country star k.d. lang is celebrating the 33rd anniversary of her album Ingénue by auctioning off rare items to the public. Teaming up with auction website the Realest, the k.d. lang legacy auction is giving fans the chance to bid on collectibles including a Shadowland signed vinyl, Absolute Torch and Twang signed vinyl, magazines, posters and more. "For the first time, fans and collectors have the opportunity to own rare artifacts from k.d. lang's personal collection — including award plaques, signed memorabilia, rare fan newsletters and behind-the-scenes artifacts," the auction house shared on Instagram. "Each piece offers an intimate glimpse into the career of an artist who redefined country, pop and jazz while breaking barriers for LGBTQ+ visibility in music." Among the items is a signed 1993 issue of Vanity Fair with k.d. lang and model Cindy Crawford on the cover. In 2023, Crawford shared the famous image on Instagram, writing that "it was considered a bit risqué at the time" for challenging gender stereotypes, but that it was "still one of my favourite cover shoots [and] I'm so proud to have been part of it." Ingénue is lang's second solo album, containing the singles Constant Craving and Miss Chatelaine. Constant Craving won a Grammy in 1993 for best female pop vocal performance. Last year, lang was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. She reunited with her band, the Reclines, to perform Big Boned Gal. LISTEN | The official audio for Big Boned Gal:
