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{{Infobox musical artist
|name =k.d. lang
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|caption =k.d. lang in 2006
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|background =solo_singer
|birth_name =Kathryn Dawn Lang
|alias =
|birth_date ={{birth date and age|mf=yes|1961|11|2}}
|birth_place = [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]], [[Canada]]
|death_date =
|origin =[[Consort, Alberta]], Canada
|instrument =Guitar, vocals
|genre =[[Country music|Country]], [[pop music|pop]]
|occupation =Singer-songwriter, record producer
|years_active =1984–present
|label =[[Bumstead Records|Bumstead]], [[Sire Records|Sire]], [[Warner Bros. Records]], [[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]], [[Elektra Records]]
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|website =[http://www.kdlang.com/ www.kdlang.com]}}
'''Kathryn Dawn Lang''', [[Order of Canada|OC]] (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name '''k.d. lang''', is a [[Canadian]] [[pop music|pop]] and [[country music|country]] singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She styles her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials.<ref name="Artist's name">{{cite web
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|accessdate=2010-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
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|accessdate=June 29, 2008}}</ref>

Lang has won both [[Juno Award]]s and [[Grammy Award]]s for her musical performances; 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]].<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Jane-Siberry-When-I-Was-A-Boy/release/186386 Discogs.com]</ref> Lang is also known for being a vegan<ref name="vegan">{{Cite news
|last=LeGal
|first=Janine
|authorlink=
|title=Being vegan is "the most natural thing in the world"
|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/prime-times/Being-vegan-is-the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world-101977813.html
|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press
|date=2010-09-02
|accessdate=2011-02-10}}</ref> as well as an [[animal rights]], [[LGBT social movements|gay rights]], and [[Tibet]]an [[human rights]] activist. She is a tantric practitioner of the Old School of Tibetan Buddhism.<ref>http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3184&Itemid=247</ref> She performed [[Leonard Cohen]]'s "[[Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)|Hallelujah]]" live at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in [[Vancouver]], Canada.

== Early years ==
Lang was born in [[Edmonton]], Alberta, the daughter of Audrey and Adam Frederick Lang.<ref name="bookref1">
{{cite book
| last = Starr
| first = Victoria
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title = k.d. Lang : All You Get is Me
| publisher = Random House of Canada
| year = 1995
| location =
| page = 2
| month =
| ISBN = 0394224426
}}</ref>
She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian Jewish, Icelandic, and [[Sioux]] ancestry.<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.news24.com/Content/Entertainment/CelebNews/1048/977ddeaf2b5e4a36b533baaca747cc66/06-02-2008-04-39/kd_lang_hits_Watershed_moment
| title = kd lang hits Watershed moment
| publisher = News24
| date = February 6, 2008
| accessdate = February 16, 2010
}}</ref>
When k.d. was nine months old, her family moved to [[Consort, Alberta]], where she grew up with two sisters and one brother on the [[Canadian prairie]].<ref name="Malawey">Malawey, Victoria (2009) "K. D. Lang" ''in'' Cramer, Alfred W. (ed.) (2009) ''Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century'' Salem Press, Pasadena, California. ISBN 978-1-58765-512-8</ref> Her father was a drug store owner and left the family when Lang was twelve.<ref name="Malawey" />

After secondary school, lang attended [[Red Deer College]], where she became fascinated with the life and music of [[Patsy Cline]] and ultimately determined to pursue a career as a professional singer.<ref>
{{cite web
| title = k.d. lang: Biography
| work = CMT.com
| date = June 21, 2004
| url = http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/lang_kd/bio.jhtml
| accessdate = June 29, 2008
}}</ref>
She formed a Patsy Cline [[tribute band]] called the Reclines in 1983, and they recorded a debut album, ''Friday Dance Promenade''. Also in 1983, lang presented a performance-art piece, a seven-hour re-enactment of the transplantation of an [[artificial heart]] for Barney Clark, a retired American dentist.<ref>
{{cite book
| last = Adria
| first = Marco
| title = Music of Our Times: Eight Canadian Singer-Songwriters
| year = 1990
| publisher = James Lorimer & Company
| location = Toronto
| isbn = 1-55028-315-4
| pages = 139–44
| chapter = A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cowpunk: K.D. Lang
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| title = Lang, K.D. Biography: Contemporary Musicians
| work = enotes.com
| url = http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/lang-k-d-biography
| accessdate = June 29, 2008
}}</ref>
''[[A Truly Western Experience]]'' was released in 1984 and received strong reviews and led to national attention in Canada. In August 1984, k.d. lang was one of three Canadian artists to be selected to perform at the World Science Fair in [[Tsukuba]], Japan (along with other performing and recording contracts throughout Japan).{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}}

Singing at [[country and western]] venues in Canada, lang made several recordings that received very positive reviews and earned a 1985 [[Juno Award]] for [[Juno Award for New Artist of the Year|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." She 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]].

== Career rise ==
Lang's career received a huge boost when [[Roy Orbison]] chose her to record a duet of his standard, [[Crying (Roy Orbison song)|"Crying,"]] a collaboration that won them the [[Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals]] in 1989. The song was used in the [[Jon Cryer]] film ''[[Hiding Out]]'' released in 1987. Due to the success of the song, lang was awarded Entertainer of the Year award from the [[Canadian Country Music Association]]. Lang would win the same award for the next three years, in addition to two Female Vocalist of the Year awards in 1988 and 1989.

1988 marked the release of ''[[Shadowland (k.d. lang album)|Shadowland]]'', an album of torch country produced by [[Owen Bradley]]. In late 1988, ''Shadowland'' was 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 [[1988 Winter Olympics|XV Winter Olympics]] in [[Calgary, Alberta]], and sang background vocals with [[Jennifer Warnes]] and [[Bonnie Raitt]] for Orbison's acclaimed television special, ''[[Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night]]''.

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

== Grammy Awards and mainstream success ==
Lang won the American [[Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance]] for her 1989 album, ''[[Absolute Torch and Twang]]''. The single "[[Full Moon Full of Love]]" that stemmed from that album became a modest hit in the United States in the summer of 1989 and a number 1 hit on the [[RPM (magazine)|RPM Country]] chart in Canada.

In 1989 she sang a duet, Sin City, with [[Dwight Yoakam]] on his album "Just Lookin' for a Hit."

The 1992 album, ''[[Ingénue (album)|Ingénue]]'', a set of adult contemporary pop songs that showed comparatively little country influence, contained her most popular song, "[[Constant Craving]]." That song 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 music|salsa]]-inspired track was ironic; ''[[Chatelaine (magazine)|Chatelaine]]'', a women's magazine, once chose lang as its "Woman of the Year," and the song's video depicted lang in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colors and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on the [[Lawrence Welk]] show.

Lang received a writing credit for [[The Rolling Stones]]' song "[[Anybody Seen My Baby?]]", whose chorus sounds strikingly similar to "Constant Craving". Jagger and Richards claimed to have never heard the song before and when they discovered the similarity prior to the song's release, were flummoxed as to how the songs could be so similar. Jagger then soon discovered his daughter listening to a recording of “Constant Craving” on her stereo and realized he had heard the song before many times but only subliminally. The two gave Lang credit, along with her co-writer Ben Mink, in order to avoid any possible lawsuits. Afterwards, Lang said she was "completely honored and flattered" by receiving the songwriting credit.

Lang contributed much of the music towards [[Gus Van Sant]]'s soundtrack of the film ''[[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)|Even Cowgirls Get the Blues]]'', and also did a cover of "[[Skylark (song)|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 1996, she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]].

In 1997, ''[[Drag (k.d. lang album)|Drag]]'', an album of cover tunes dedicated to 'smoke' (specifically cigarette smoking) was released, although the album cover and booklet photographs show lang in a man's suit, referring to [[Cross-dressing|crossdressing]] as another possible meaning of the word 'drag'. The songs on ''Drag'' include "Smoke Dreams," from the '40s, [[Steve Miller Band]]'s "[[The Joker (song)|The Joker]]," "Smoke Rings," the theme from the [[cult film|cult movie]] ''[[Valley of the Dolls (film)|Valley of the Dolls]]'', and 8 other smoke-themed songs.

Lang ranked #33 on ''[[VH-1]]'s 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll'' in 1999 and #26 on ''[[CMT]]' 40 Greatest Women in Country Music'' in 2002, one of only eight women to make both lists. The others were [[Linda Ronstadt]], [[Patsy Cline]], [[Dolly Parton]], [[Tammy Wynette]], [[Loretta Lynn]], [[Lucinda Williams]], and [[Emmylou Harris]].

In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy Award, this time for [[Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album|Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album]] for her collaboration with [[Tony Bennett]] on ''[[A Wonderful World]]''.

On subsequent tours, critical acclaim continued to come her way. In 2004, [[Stephen Holden]] of ''The New York Times'' wrote: "Few singers command such perfection of pitch. Her voice, at once beautiful and unadorned and softened with a veil of smoke, invariably hits the middle of a note and remains there. She discreetly flaunted her technique, drawing out notes and shading them from sustained cries into softer, vibrato-laden murmurs. She balanced her commitment to the material with humor, projecting a twinkling merriment behind it all."<ref>
{{cite news
| title = JVC Jazz Festival Reviews: Tai Chi Precision and Constant Shading
| publisher = The New York Times
| date = June 21, 2004
| url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E4DD1239F932A15755C0A9629C8B63
| accessdate = June 29, 2008
| first=Stephen
| last=Holden
}}</ref>

In the same year, lang released ''[[Hymns of the 49th Parallel]]'', which featured cover versions of songs by iconic English-speaking Canadian singer-songwriters: [[Bruce Cockburn]], [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Joni Mitchell]], [[Ron Sexsmith]], [[Issa (singer)|Jane Siberry]], and [[Neil Young]].<ref>
{{cite web
| title = K.D. Lang - View the Music Artists Biography Online
| publisher = [[VH1]]
| url = http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/lang_kd/bio.jhtml
| accessdate = June 29, 2008
}}</ref>
According to the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA), in April 2006 the album went platinum in Canada selling over 100,000 copies. In December 2007 the album reached double platinum status in Australia selling over 140,000 copies.

Also in 2004, she sang the song "Little Patch of Heaven" for the [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Feature Animation]] film, ''[[Home on the Range (2004 film)|Home on the Range]]''.

On July 29, 2006, lang performed her hit "Constant Craving" at the [[Outgames]] Opening Ceremonies in [[Montreal]], Canada.

In 2006, lang paired with singer [[Madeleine Peyroux]] on a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song "[[River (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 (The Beatles song)|Golden Slumbers]]" for the [[Happy Feet (OST)|''Happy Feet'' film soundtrack]]. She also sang a duet with [[Ann Wilson]] on the [[Heart (band)|Heart]] singer's solo album ''[[Hope & Glory (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]]," to be featured on Murray's CD, ''[[Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends|Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends]]''. The duet was recorded in Los Angeles, and on Murray's official website there is a picture of Murray and lang kneeling behind Murray's star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]. Anne Murray was one of lang's childhood idols.

She released an album of new material, ''[[Watershed (K.D. Lang album)|Watershed]]'' on February 5, 2008.<ref>
{{cite web
| title = K.D. Lang Eyeing February for Next Album
| publisher = ''Billboard''
| date = October 10, 2007
| url = http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003656384
| accessdate = October 11, 2007
}}</ref> It is her first collection of original material since ''[[Invincible Summer]]'' (2000). An article in which lang is interviewed states: "when she isn’t working, [lang] is mostly a homebody, living quietly with a girlfriend she refers to as “my wife”&nbsp;— they’re not legally married&nbsp;— and her two dogs."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3159573.ece |title=The second coming of kd Lang |author= |date=January 13, 2008 |publisher=[[The Sunday Times]] |accessdate=6 October 2010}} <!-- {{Dead link|date=February 2010}} ???--></ref>

Lang's first complete Greatest Hits collection was released February 2, 2010 on the Nonesuch label as "Recollection". Her debut album, which was dedicated to her life partner, Jenni Coonan, was re-released as a deluxe version on February 9.

In 2010, lang was in Nashville, working on a new country album, titled ''[[Sing It Loud (album)|Sing it Loud]]''. The album, officially recorded as a release by k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang, was released in spring 2011 release, via Nonesuch.
The band is touring North America in summer 2011.

== Film and television appearances ==
[[File:2010 Opening Ceremonies - KD Lang.jpg|thumb|left|220px|k.d. lang performing [[Leonard Cohen]]'s [[Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)|Hallelujah]] at the [[2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony]]]]
In 1988 k.d. lang & The Reclines performed on ''[[Austin City Limits]]''. Lang played the lead in the 1991 drama film, ''[[Salmonberries]]'', and also co-starred with [[Ewan McGregor]] and [[Ashley Judd]] in ''[[Eye of the Beholder (film)|Eye of the Beholder]]'' (1999). She had an uncredited role as a lounge singer in 2006's ''[[The Black Dahlia (film)|The Black Dahlia]]''. She has also made guest appearances on the sitcoms ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'', ''[[Dharma & Greg]]'', and the famous coming out episode of ''[[Ellen (TV series)|Ellen]]''. She appeared on the Christmas special of ''[[Pee Wee's Playhouse]]'', where she performed the song "[[Jingle Bell Rock]]." She also made a guest appearance on the "Garbage" episode of ''[[The Jim Henson Hour]]'', and in 2008 appeared on Rove McManus' live hour show, ''Rove''.

Lang performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra for an intimate crowd at 18th century church LSO St Luke's in London on February 3, 2008.<ref>"k.d. lang's BBC Four Session" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/bbcfoursessions/kdlang/).</ref> First aired as part of the BBC Four Sessions, the concert was released as a DVD entitled "Live In London" in 2009.

On February 12, 2010, she performed [[Leonard Cohen]]'s "[[Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)|Hallelujah]]" at the [[2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony|Olympics Opening Ceremony]] in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early May 2010, Lang filled in at the last minute for [[Susan Boyle]] at the Australian TV Logie Awards to reprise her Winter Olympics performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", receiving an extended standing ovation. In 2010 she sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" with [[Matthew Morrison]] in a Christmas episode of ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]'', and is featured on ''[[Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album]]''.

== Activism ==
[[File:kd lang.jpg|thumb|right|Lang performing in [[The Arts Centre (Melbourne)|Hamer Hall]], Melbourne, Australia 2008]]
Lang, who [[Coming out|came out]] as a [[lesbian]] in a 1992 article of the [[LGBT]]-related news magazine ''[[The Advocate]]'', has actively championed [[gay rights]] causes. She has performed and supported many causes over the years, including [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] care and research. Her cover of [[Cole Porter]]'s "[[So in Love]]" (from the Broadway musical, ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]''), appears on the ''[[Red Hot + Blue]]'' compilation album and video from 1990 (a tribute to Cole Porter to benefit AIDS research and relief). Her 2010 Greatest Hits album, ''Recollection'', also includes this cover of "So in Love". Lang also recorded the song "Fado Hilario," singing in Portuguese, for the 1999 Red Hot AIDS benefit album "[[Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon]]," a traditional [[fado]] from Portugal.

Her animal rights vegetarian stance, including a "Meat Stinks" campaign, created much controversy, particularly at her hometown in the middle of [[Alberta]]'s cattle ranching industry.

Lang appeared on the cover of the August 1993 issue of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''. The cover featured Lang in a [[barber]] chair while model [[Cindy Crawford]] appeared to shave her face with a straight razor.<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vanity_Fair_Cover_Lang_Crawford.jpg
| title = File:Vanity Fair Cover Lang Crawford.jpg
| publisher = Wikimedia Foundation
| date =
| accessdate = February 16, 2010
}}</ref>
The issue contained a detailed article about Lang which observed that she had thought that she would be ostracized by the country music industry when she came out as a lesbian. However, Nashville was accepting, and her records continued to sell. When she appeared in an ad for [[PETA]] however, Nashville was less impressed owing to the relationship between country music and [[cattle ranching]].<ref>
{{cite web
| title = K.D. Lang's Career Takes Another Twist
| work = AfterEllen.com
| date = April 2004
| url = http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/Music/kdlang.html
| accessdate = June 29, 2008
}}</ref>

In April 2008, Lang spent time in Melbourne, Australia, as a guest [[editorial]]ist for ''[[The Age]]''. This was in connection with her support for the [[Tibet]] [[human rights|human rights issues]]. On April 24, 2008, she joined pro-Tibet protesters in [[Canberra]] as the Beijing [[2008 Summer Olympics torch relay]] made its way through the Australian capital.<ref>
{{cite web
| title = Canadian Singer K.D. Lang Will Protest for Tibetans Today: Here She Tells Why
| work = [[The Age]]
| date = April 24, 2008
| url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/canadian-singer-kd-lang-will-protest-for-tibetans-today-here-shetells-why/2008/04/23/1208743040356.html
| accessdate = April 26, 2008
}}</ref>

== Recognition ==
On June 3, 2008, it was announced that she would receive a star on [[Canada's Walk of Fame]].<ref>
{{cite web
| title = Steve Nash, KD Lang Among New Walk of Fame Inductees
| publisher = [[CTV Television Network|CTV]]
| date = June 3, 2008
| url = http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080603/walk_fame_080603/20080603?hub=TopStories
|accessdate = June 3, 2008
}}</ref>

=== Awards and nominations ===

Of the multiple [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] nominations that lang has received, she has won four Awards.

; 1989
* [[Grammy Award]] — [[Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals|Best Country Vocal Collaboration]] for "[[Crying (Roy Orbison song)|Crying]]" (shared with Roy Orbison)

; 1990
* Grammy Award — [[Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance|Best Female Country Vocal Performance]] for "[[Absolute Torch and Twang]]"

; 1993
* Grammy Award — [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]] for "[[Constant Craving]]"
* Grammy Award nomination — [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]] for "Constant Craving"
* Grammy Award nomination — [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] for "Constant Craving"
* Grammy Award nomination — [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] for "[[Ingénue (album)|Ingenue]]"

; 1994
* Grammy Award nomination — [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]] for "[[Chatelaine (magazine)|Miss Chatelaine]]"

; 1995
* Grammy Award nomination — [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals|Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals]] for "[[Moonglow (song)|Moonglow]]" (with [[Tony Bennett]])

; 2003
* Grammy Award nomination — [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals|Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals]] for "[[What A Wonderful World]]" (with [[Tony Bennett]])

; 2004
* Grammy Award — [[Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album|Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album]] for "[[A Wonderful World]]" (shared with [[Tony Bennett]])
* Grammy Award nomination — [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals|Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals]] for "[[La Vie En Rose]]" (with [[Tony Bennett]])

== Discography ==
{{Main|k.d. lang discography}}

== See also ==
* [[Academy of Country Music]]
* [[Country Music Association]]
* [[List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart]]
* [[List of country musicians]]
* [[List of number-one dance hits (United States)]]

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book
| last = Adria
| first = Marco
| title = Music of Our Times: Eight Canadian Singer-Songwriters
| year = 1990
| publisher = James Lorimer & Company
| location = Toronto
| isbn = 1-55028-315-4
| pages = 139–44
| chapter = A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cowpunk: K.D. Lang
}}
* {{Cite book
| last = Bufwack
| first = Mary A.
| editor = Paul Kingsbury
| title = The Encyclopedia of Country Music
| year = 1998
| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-0-19-517608-7
| pages = 289–90
| chapter = K.D. Lang
}}
* {{Cite book
| last = Dogget
| first = Peter
| title = Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
| year = 2001
| publisher = Penguin Books
| location =
| isbn = 0-14-026108-7
| pages =
}}
* {{Cite book
| last = Feiler
| first = Bruce
| title = Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes and the Changing Face of Nashville
| year = 1998
| publisher = Avon Books
| location =
| isbn = 0-380-97578-5
| pages =
}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.kdlang.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3184&Itemid=247 Shambhala Sun Magazine Interview]
* [http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=118&csid2=6&fid1=29493 K.D. Lang questionnaire] February 2008

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