Isobel's home! At last, been a long week.
One continual thing keeping me ticking this week though? This lovely lady to the right. Yes, I said lady. Her name is k.d. lang - and for the first time since early November, I am not using capitals to distinguish who won today. k.d. prefers her name to always appear in lwoercase letters, so, I'll give it a go.
She shot BACK into the public spotlight thanks to last week's Olympic Opening Ceremony, and many believe her performance of 'Hallelujah' to be the best ever performed. I mean, how many artists have to perform an encore at a ceremony like the one in Vancouver?! She's released the eprformance as a single, adn it's in the UK iTunes Top 100 - not to mention the US.
So after falling in love with ehr voice last week, I did some Spotify-ing, and realised that actually, she's great at everything she's performed. k.d. is normally a pop-country singer, but she is massive in the US, Canada and Australia, and now gaining a growing number of fans here in the UK.
If you've never heard of her before, just YouTube her 'Hallelujah' performance, and do what half the world did and realise that this woman is extremely talented. Even Leonard Cohen's parents think this is the definitive version of teh song. And he wrote it!
k.d. lang, you are the Day Dedicatee for Thursday 18th February 2010.
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