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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

NZ Herald: k.d. lang's "Pitch-Perfect" Performance Leaves Auckland "Enraptured"

Lang_kd "There is a paucity of quality female vocalists in the music charts today," writes the New Zealand Herald's Alexander Bell in his review of k.d. lang's performance last night at Auckland's Aotea Centre. While there is certainly no lack of pop starlets, he says, for quality, "one woman stands alone." That would be k.d., who "enraptured the audience with her remarkable vocal range."

Bell says k.d.'s live performance of tunes from Watershed was "pitch-perfect and soulful" and her take on Jane Siberry's "The Valley," from Hymns of the 49th Parallel, "nothing short of magnificent, as the vocal swung from powerful to delicate."

It was the last concert on the Southern Hemispheric leg of her Watershed tour, with k.d. taking a few weeks before heading back to Canada towards the end of the month, and the Herald sums it up this way: "In one word ... genius."

To read the review, visit nzherald.co.nz.


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