Bid to receive k.d. lang handwritten lyrics to her award-winning song, 'Constant Craving'!
The ACLU SoCal's June auction will celebrate LGBTQ artists and content creators in honor of Pride Month!
k.d. lang has won four GRAMMY® awards, eight Juno Awards, a BRIT, an AMA, a VMA, and four awards from GLAAD. In 1996, she received Canada’s highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada. In 2013, she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards, and last year, received the Alberta Order of Excellence Award. She has appeared alongside such musical luminaries as Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Loretta Lynn, and Tony Bennett. “She’s the best singer of her generation,” observed Bennett, who has frequently toured with lang since their 2002 Wonderful World duets album.
'Constant Craving' is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang and Ben Mink, performed by lang and included on her second solo album, Ingénue (1992). The song was released in the United Kingdom in April 1992 and won lang a Grammy Award in the category for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1993, as well as an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video.
John T. Davis from Austin American Statesman complimented 'Constant Craving' as "a song graced by a compelling melody and a vocal brimming with yearning."
Mark Deming from AllMusic felt that the "emotional core" of songs like 'Constant Craving', "was obvious even when their surfaces were evasive." In 2019, Billboard included it in its list of the "30 Lesbian Love Songs". In 2008, the Daily Vault's Jason Warburg viewed it as a "dynamite single", that "manages to meld the spiritual with the physical while conveying a feverish desire for both kinds of fulfillment." He also remarked its "upbeat", "expansive and full of simmering appeal".
View 'Constant Craving' music video here.
lang has also contributed to numerous soundtracks, has appeared in many films, and in 2014 made her Broadway debut in the seven-time Tony-award nominated musical After Midnight. In 2016, she united with Neko Case and Laura Veirs to create case/lang/veirs, a collaborative record released that year. She celebrated the 25th anniversary of her platinum selling breakthrough album, Ingénue, with critically acclaimed tours in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom/Ireland.
In 2021, she released ‘makeover,’ a new collection of classic dance remixes of some of her best-loved songs originally released between 1992-2000. She is renowned for her live shows, prompting the New York Times’ Stephen Holden to observe: “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.”
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