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BBC Music on the World Service with Cerys Matthews: K D Lang

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K D Lang

11/06/2016 GMT

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K D Lang on her career and her latest album with Neko Case and Laura Veirs

K D Lang on her platinum-selling, four-time Grammy-winning career as a singer-songwriter and her latest album with Neko Case and Laura Veirs.

Cerys’ guest is the platinum-selling, four-time Grammy-winning, genre-spanning Canadian singer-songwriter, K D Lang. K D draws on a broad range of musical influences, many of which have been reflected in reinterpretations of songs by Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison, Neil Young and more.

She has enjoyed chart success with her own compositions and has a song writing credit on the Rolling Stones track Anybody Seen My Baby? Her film soundtrack work includes Gus Van Sant’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and she has collaborated with pop and country luminaries like Bonnie Raitt, Loretta Lynn, Elton John and Tony Bennett, who described her as “the best singer of her generation”.

K D’s latest musical venture is a collaboration with Neko Case and Laura Veirs, which came to fruition after she sent an email to both singers, on a whim, that simply read: "I think we should make a record together." The resulting album is released this month and will be supported by a tour of North America.

(Photo: K D Lang performs on Later with Jools Holland)

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