Women of the year throwback: 8 Canadians who rocked the ’80s and ’90s

The year: 1988

The exuberant headline “Yippee-I-O KD!” introduced Chatelaine readers to the pride of Consort, Alta., then a country-style crooner with a “don’t-mess-with-me tomboy alto” trying to break big in Nashville. Also in Lang’s vocal repertoire, according to writer Jay Scott: growling “like a bulldog,” yodelling “like a hillbilly on a Saturday night” and soaring “operatically like a diva.” What range!