Artist Bio
Four-time Grammy Award–winner and eight-time Juno Award–winner k.d. lang releases her first-ever career retrospective, Recollection, 25 years after the release of her debut recording. Recollection features 22 of lang’s most beloved recordings including an all-new interpretation of the Leonard Cohen classic “Hallelujah,” which has become a moving highlight of her live performances. The Guardian describes her rendition as “mesmerising: she reaches into the air, plucking the tiniest note from within her huge range, bends double, before throwing her head back and unleashing her pitch-perfect roar.”
The deluxe Recollection package includes a third disc of previously unreleased recordings—many performed live—as well as a bonus DVD of music videos and rarely seen live performance footage, including a live performance of ‘Crying’ with Roy Orbison. Please find following a complete track listing.
Recollection comes on the heels of lang’s critically acclaimed 2008 release, Watershed, for which Australia delivered lang’s first ever number one album in the world. Watershed was hailed by Rolling Stone as “first-rate singer-songwriter music” and Interview Magazine as “[lang’s] biggest album yet.” The record debuted in Billboard’s top ten upon its release and marked lang’s first time assuming the role of producer in addition to writer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist.
Referred to as “the greatest female singer in the whole world” by fellow Canadian Michael Bublé, lang has had a distinguished 25-year career. In addition to a fruitful collaboration with Tony Bennett, she has performed alongside musical luminaries including Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, and Loretta Lynn. She sang at the closing ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and has contributed music to the soundtracks of several films including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Happy Feet. In addition to her music career, lang has also appeared in a number of films including Salmonberries, The Black Dahlia and Eye of the Beholder. In 1996 lang received Canada’s highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada.
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