🦙 Did K.D. Lang Have A Pet Llama?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you remember the opening ceremony of the twenty ten
Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Katie Lane just gave everyone
goosebumps when she sang Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah, Let her.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Sigh your flag on the model lot Love.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's not too much.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's cold, then it's a brocket.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, it was extraordinary. There she was in a suit,
bare feet, just singing the heart out of that song.
It was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
The soles of her feet were remarkably clean.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I thought at the time, could you see the souls?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah. Usually when you see people walk around and bad feet,
they get that Mullumn Bimbie set of hay and you know,
hard bottom foot thing. Even Hemsey and his missus have
got that terrible you know, Northern river's feet. Okay, but
well Katie didn't have that.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
No, she didn't have that at all. It was quite
extraordinary her performance. It was beautiful. And I saw an
interview she did recently where she spoke about the pressure
of singing that but also what got her through it,
and it's quite remarkable.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
My lama passed away a couple of months before and
I was heartbroken. I was also given this golden a
Oh my god, because I had been singing Hallelulia already
for a couple of years, and to have Leonard Cohen
say no, because they actually asked him to sing it

(01:38):
and he said no, Ask Katie. And the second I
got on to that stage, purity of understanding of realms
came into me. I know that it was my lama
was helping me at that time, and just everything became
so clear and slowed down. So believe me when I

(01:59):
say I cannot take the credit for that moment. We
shared that moment together, Katie and the Lama.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I sent that to a friend of mine saying, who knew?
I mean, I love Katie Lane, but she can hear
the catching a voice as she says her pet lama died.
And I said that to a friend of mine who said, no,
she's talking about her Buddhist lama. It's not an animal.
I felt foolish, So you thought she was talking about

(02:29):
Alma animal lama, and she did. How emotional she was,
and that her pet lama got her through that song.
That's a fair yeah, because they's a fair assessment.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
That's a fair assessment.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
But I also I remember so clearly watching her sing
on that night, and Liam was about nine, Jack was seven,
and whenever I hear that song, I'm reminded of a
very emotional time. And I was telling them the story
that when Liam was to Jack was a newborn. We're
up visiting my parents in Brisbane and Liam had a
seizure of some kind. His head was lolling back. He

(03:01):
passed out, and it was just terrifying, absolutely terrifying. He
went to the hospital. They gave him a lumber puncture.
We're terrified it was Mencha cockle who knew what it was.
At the end of a long, hard and emotional day,
there I am, with this newborn in my arms. I
went in. I was able to see liamb and he
was watching Shrek and that song was playing Hallelujah, and

(03:22):
I just put my head on the bed and I sobbed,
and I sobbed and I sobbed. And as we're watching
Katie Lange sing this song, I told Liam and Jack
that story and why that song is so powerful for me.
And that moment Jack looks up and says, who's he
He's watching Katie Lange sing? I said, never.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Mind, looks like it was like a Lama farmer. Apple
doesn't fall five from the tree.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
There