K.D. Lang

Feist, Nickelback Get WCMA International Honours

Since Nickelback, Feist and K.D. Lang have helped keep Canadian music on the international radar over the last few years, they'll be honoured for their achievements next month. All three will receive international achievement awards at the Western Canadian Music Awards at Edmonton's Meyer Horowitz Theatre on Oct. 19. Feist was born in Amherst...
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K.D. Lang Wins Lawsuit Against Former Manager

K.D. Lang has won a lawsuit against her former manager, who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the singer's bank accounts. The Los Angeles Superior Court awarded Lang $1.9 million U.S. in damages on Tuesday in a default judgment after the manager, Annabel Lapp, abandoned her defence. Lang sued Lapp and her artist management...
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Roy Orbison's Legacy To Be Celebrated Big-Time

Sony BMG's Legacy Recordings label has started to release pretty much everything legendary singer/songwriter Roy Orbison recorded. The February 7 reissue of Black & White Night — a 1987 HBO concert that featured Orbison performing with Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and K.D. Lang, among others — was the first step in re-releasing Orbison...
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K.D. Lang — Hymns Of The 49th Parallel

Generally a better interpreter than a writer, Lang plays to her strengths with this collection of songs written by Canadians. The album doesn’t bring attention to any really underappreciated artists — Ron Sexsmith is perhaps the least known and there isn’t much variety, with Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Jane Siberry accounting for...
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K.D. Lang - Hymns Of The 49th Parallel
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