K.d. lang

k.d. lang is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances and her hits include "Constant Craving" and "Miss Chatelaine". She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has teamed with musicians such as Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Anne Murray and Jane Siberry. She performed at the closing ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" live at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. She has released 12 studio albums, one soundtrack, one live album, three greatest hits albums and 41 singles.

In 1983, lang formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines in 1983, and they recorded a debut album, Friday Dance Promenade. In 1984, A Truly Western Experience was released which led to national attention in Canada.

In 1985, she was awarded the Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist and 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".

In 1987, Lang released Angel with a Lariat and she and Roy Orbison sang a duet with his standard, "Crying" which won them the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1989. The song was used in the 1987 film Hiding Out.

In 1988, Lang released Shadowland, whichwas 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 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

In 1990, Lang contributed the song "So in Love" to the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue. In 1998, she contributed "Fado Hilário" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the same organization.

Lang won the American Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 1989 album, Absolute Torch and Twang which featured the single "Full Moon Full of Love". In 1989, she sang a duet, "Sin City", with Dwight Yoakam on his album Just Lookin' for a Hit.

The 1992 album, Ingénue, featured her most popular song, "Constant Craving", which won her the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The album also featured "Miss Chatelaine". Lang received a writing credit for the Rolling Stones' song "Anybody Seen My Baby?".

Lang contributed to Gus Van Sant's soundtrack of the film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and 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 1997, Lang released Drag, an album of cover tunes dedicated to 'smoke' such as "Smoke Dreams", Steve Miller Band's "The Joker", and "Smoke Rings", the theme from the cult movie Valley of the Dolls.

In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy Award, for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her collaboration with Tony Bennett on A Wonderful World. In 2004, lang released Hymns of the 49th Parallel, which featured cover versions of songs by Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry, and Neil Young. She sang the song "Little Patch of Heaven" for the Walt Disney Feature Animation film Home on the Range.

In 2006, lang performed her hit "Constant Craving" at the Outgames Opening Ceremonies in Montreal, Canada. and she paired 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". As well, lang sang a version of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" for the Happy Feet film soundtrack. She also sang a duet with Ann Wilson on the Heart singer's solo album Hope & Glory covering the Lucinda Williams song "Jackson".

In 2007, she partnered with Anne Murray on a re-make of Murray's hit "A Love Song" on Murray's CD, Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends.

She released the album Watershed in February 2008 and her first complete greatest-hits collection was released in February 2010.

In 2011, Lang released Sing it Loud.