EVENT: k.d. lang: ingénue redux
WHEN: Saturday, September 8, 8 p.m.
VENUE: Walt Disney Theater
NOTES: The impossible-to-classify
pop superstar commemorates the
25th anniversary of the release of
Ingénue, her breakthrough album.
She performs the album in its
other favorites.
TICKETS: Prices starting at $39.50
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D I D Y O U K N O W ?
money. “I used to sew plastic cowboys and Indians on my clothes. I was broke at the time, so
to throw out. I loved playing with the clothes as much as the music.”
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to comment on social issues, particularly AIDS
and LGBTQ rights. Lang was, as the London
Sunday Times put it in 2008, “the poster girl for
lesbian chic.”
She won multiple awards from GLAAD
(Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
and promoted animal rights via PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
In 1993, photographer Herb Ritts shot a
provocative portrait of lang and Cindy Crawford
for the cover of Vanity Fair. It showed
the scantily clad supermodel pretending to
shave the pop star, who was reclined in a
barber chair wearing a pinstripe suit.
Although lang has not yet duplicated the
chart success of Ingénue, she has remained
as busy as she cares to be. In 2002, she
earned another Grammy for Best Traditional
Pop Vocal for A Wonderful World, an album
she recorded with the ageless Tony Bennett.
More recently, in 2011, the Nonesuch la-
Sing it Loud,
which contained all original material. A year
earlier, the label had compiled a career retrospective,
Recollection, which included a
new interpretation of “Hallelujah.”
That plaintive ballad, which has been
recorded by just about everyone, has be-
Opening for lang on her current tour is Sloveniaborn
guitar virtuoso Mak Grgic, who performs
solo and as a featured artist for symphonies
around the world.
come perhaps most associated with lang
— whose soulful, searing rendition never fails
to raise goosebumps. (She performed it live
as part of the opening ceremonies of the
2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British
Columbia.)
In 2014, lang guest-starred on the hit TV
show Portlandia. In 2016, she collaborated
with indie star Neko Case and singersongwriter
Laura Veirs to release the album
case/lang/veirs.
Reviews were ecstatic. Exclaim! called the
album “profound, passionate and substantial.”
The Independent called it “an album
of rare beauty and intelligence,” also noting
In 1999, Lang ranked No. 33 on VH-1’s 100
Greatest Women in Rock & Roll, and clocked
in at No. 26 on 40 Greatest Women
in Country Music in 2002 — one of just eight
women to make both lists.
G E T Y O U R T I C K E T S
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