Recollection, k.d. lang's most recent Nonesuch release, celebrates the singer's 25-year career in music. The album has hit No. 1 on the charts in Australia, surpassing the likes of Susan Boyle, Lady Gaga, and Taylor Swift and is still in the Top 5 in her home country of Canada, where she wowed audiences at the Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver Winter Olympics last month.

She is currently featured in two articles from the CanWest News Service, in which writer Sandra Sperounes talks to k.d. lang about the new album and the performance that was seen by billions of television viewers around the world.

In one article, published in the Vancouver Sun and elsewhere across Canada, Sperounes looks back on k.d.'s storied career asks k.d. about her own perspective on the gift of her voice and the potential it promised from early on. "I had a vision and it was just a matter of work, tenacity and persistence," lang recalls. "No one prepares you for what you experience, but I was very sure I wanted to do this, and I knew I could if I worked hard enough."

There's much more in the complete article at vancouversun.com.

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In a separate article, also found in the Vancouver Sun, Sperounes and lang discuss the most recent results of that hard work, what the writer calls k.d.'s "electrifying rendition of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'" at the Olympics.

"It's a big deal," k.d. says, "three billion (viewers) and representing Canada. I wanted to sing live, because it's the Olympics—and it's the Olympics for a singer. You get five-and-a-half minutes to do your thing. I took it really seriously, and I prepared a lifetime for it."

All that preparation clearly paid off in the end in a performance that Sperounes concludes "is widely regarded as the highlight of the opening ceremonies."

You'll find that article too at vancouversun.com.

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The Irish Times recently featured a profile of k.d. lang as well, which examines the broad range of music she has made her own over her 25-year career, as evidenced by Recollection. "The distinctive sound of k.d. lang’s rich voice transcends every divide she has crossed," writes Tony Clayton-Lea, "while she draws no distinction between genres."

Clayton-Lea says the new album "gathers together across three discs most of her many fine moments in song."

The two discuss the momentous Olympic performance and what it might signify regarding k.d.'s role as a leading interpreter of the Cohen classic. "It certainly wasn’t my intention to try to own the song," k.d. says of the song she first recorded on her Nonesuch debut, Hymns of the 49th Parallel. "It was just a song that moved me."

Read more at irishtimes.com.