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he c a n t see a ny o n e, the glare o f the white spotlight is so intense.
But she can hear the crowd, and she feeds on the energy they return
to her. W hen k .d. lang strides onto the stage in the cavernous
Rose G arden A ren a , she needs to seize control, knowing most of
the people in the half-empty hall aren't even there to see her, but to see Sung.
“1 need all my ego and all my self-confidence to
go out on stage and believe in myself, believe that
I’m good,” she admits during our recent phone
interview.
Indeed, the incredible nerve and sheer
guts it must take to perform in such a vast
venue never has been more clear to me, but
lang shows no fear and begins to seduce the
audience.
“It’s all about love here tonight,” she
purrs, working the mostly straight crowd at
her Portland concert July 29. The univer
sality of that statement resonates with the
small but vocal contingent of her faithful fans
and with the rest of the audience, which is
warming up to the sunny groove of her set.
“Everything I do is to allow me to be on
stage...the muse is the audience and the band and
I...th e stage is the meaning of my entire career,”
lang says loud and clear from her home in Los
Angeles just before she leaves for her first gig.
Watching her cavort gleefully around the stage,
its easy to see she speaks her truth. And although
she says she consciously shied away ffom vocal fire
works on her new record, on stage she lets loose all
her lung power. Already, on just the fourth stop of
her tour, the live versions of her new songs have
evolved into more dramatic, fuller renditions.
“I feel good about being open to audiences on
this tour,” she predicts before it starts.
She should feel even better once the first 10
dates as an opening act are over and she plunges
into headlining her own tour. The Sting thing is a
maneuver to widen her audience.
“Radio is afraid of m e ...it’s very rare that I get
played on the radio,” she explains, then quickly
cops to the fact that her music isn’t easy to program
or pigeonhole. At her concert, looking like she just
strolled in ffom the beach in white pants and a
loose red shirt, she enthusiastically thanks KINK-
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