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Opening with strummed guitars and accordion, “Constant Craving,” the only radio hit of lang’s solo career, won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. As Ingénue‘s closing statement, it seems absolutely right, eloquently embodying the searching and desiring that energize the album.

Did Ingénue single-handedly create a new genre—one that no one else could follow because they lacked lang’s monumental vocal prowess and versatility? Perhaps. Whatever its larger significance, this was clearly a peak moment in a musical career that remains unique, an album utterly unlike anything else made before or since. It has never sounded better.

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