It's easy to forget now what an impact announcing you were gay had back then. There was some pressure from her record company not to, but looking back, she says, coming out both helped and hindered her.
But at the same time, I'm different. Doesn't it infuriate her when straight women pretend to be gay for publicity, for titillation? I don't know much about Katy Perry, but I think there needs to be some inning now and then. Ultimately, we're all bisexual, honestly I think that's true. I think [the gay community's] fears and expectations are the things that get all flustered when someone like Katy Perry has a song.
Her mother was a teacher and her father ran the local drugstore. When she was 12, her father left for another woman and, apart from a chance encounter when she was an adult, lang never saw him again he died last year and neither lang, nor her siblings, went to his funeral. She bristles when I mention her father, but she appears to have made peace with him. After winning a singing competition as a child, lang knew this was where her future lay and all but gave up on school. She spent the 80s singing country, although by the time lang came out in not only as gay but also as vegetarian, fronting an animal rights campaign , the affair with Nashville was over.
She switched to torch songs, moved to LA to be near a married woman she had fallen for and channelled that unrequited love into Ingenue. There and then, lang exploded. She describes the height of her fame as "really exciting but it was a fuck-up too.
You can think you have the capacity to deal with it but nothing prepares you for it. I really thought I didn't care, that I could be famous and not be altered by it - but you are. You get caught up in it and some of it is real but for the most part, it's superficial and very fragile or temporary.
What was it like to have Madonna coming on to her? We're very different people. Which seems very fun and good, until you realise you're in this kind of prostitutal exchange I woke up and thought, 'this is ridiculous'.
Lang had been touring Ingenue for a long 18 months and was getting tired and disillusioned. It sold, like, 38 copies and it was perfect because it did what I wanted it to do, which was snap me out of it. She took herself off, started learning about Buddhism, met her partner, Jamie, a fellow student and settled down in her modest wood cabin in LA with their dogs.
The oppressive environment of fear. For a long time, I didn't know what to write or I didn't feel I had the capacity to say anything about it. Lang allowed herself the time to let her new album, Watershed, develop alongside the changes that were happening in her that came with Buddhism. Where once her songs of regret and longing might have been tortured and melancholic, they are now pared-down and introspective.
I can see myself more clearly. Is it important for her to be in a relationship? Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside". The beguiling combination of kd lang's androgynous looks and sensuous voice propelled her to fame in the 90s but, asks Emine Saner, does she want her first collection of new songs in eight years to put her back at the top of the charts?
Photograph: Sean Smith. 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 s. In , 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 with "Constant Craving.
Lang was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 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.
Music was an important part of Lang's youth, and she began demonstrating her significant vocal talents as a child. Her mother, a teacher, drove more than a hour to take Lang and her siblings to their piano lessons each week. Her piano instruction would prove to be the inspiration for her future career. When Lang was 12 years old, her parents split up, and music provided some solace.
During rehearsals, she became entranced with the life and music of the country music legend. Subsequently, after graduating from college, Lang began to pursue her own music career. With musician and songwriting partner Ben Mink, Lang formed a group called the Reclines in Patsy's honor. With the Reclines, Lang enjoyed some success in her native Canada. She made her debut with the well-received Friday Dance Promenade and established her reputation with A Truly Western Promenade in The following year, the Juno Awards selected Lang as the "most promising female vocalist.
Lang impressed critics with her album, Angel with a Lariat , but country fans didn't truly begin to warm up to the singer until the following year. In , Lang released a duet with Roy Orbison , a new recording of his hit "Crying. Lang fared even better with 's Shadowland. She was also accompanied by some of her idols on one of the tracks.
While individual country stars such as Minnie Pearl and Loretta Lynn sang her praises, k. Lang was never fully accepted by the country music establishment.
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